Coming to you from the back alleys of Angel Stadium and the All-Star Game FanFest, it’s Batting Stance Guy chatting it up with 2-time Cy Young winner and the 1985 Kansas City Royals’ World Series MVP, Bret Saberhagen. Find out everything you always wanted to know about the former all-star, but were afraid to ask, as BSG gets his take on beaning, stances, and “odd-year” success. Enjoy! 
24. June 2010
Been a rough week for the Tampa Bay Rays, but they’ll try and stop the bleeding as they look to avoid the sweep vs. the Padres this afternoon. If not, Evan Longoria won’t be able to cheer himself up with a Starbucks Lemon Loaf. What else does he not like? Find out in Questions From BSG’s Daughters.
22. June 2010
After the Yanks defeat at the hands of the D-Backs last night, the Rays will look to reclaim a share of the best record in the league tonight as they take on the NL West leading San Diego Padres. The Rays will have many questions to answer down the stretch about their ability to hang in the brutal AL East, but first Carlos Pena has to answer questions from BSG’s daughters.
17. June 2010
As interleague play plunges onward, the Tampa Bay Rays take their best-record-in-baseball up against the NL East leading Atlanta Braves as they try to win the series tonight. Rays fans will be hoping for a repeat of Evan Longoria’s 3 RBI Tueday night outing this evening. But first, he’s got the ultimate challenge before him. It’s Who Knows you Better with the Batting Stance Guy.
16. June 2010
Tampa Bay Rays slugger, Carlos Pena, recently ended a 6 game HR streak, coming just 2 games shy of the MLB record held by Dale Long, Don Mattingly, and the recently retired, Ken Griffey Jr. It was the 2nd biggest moment of his 2010 season, as just a few months earlier, to his great surprise, he got to play Who Knows You Better with the Batting Stance Guy. It’s been a big year for Carlos, its been a real big year.
15. June 2010
In honor of the Boston Celtics, and their chance at an NBA title tonight, BSG brings you another group of champions from Beantown. So here they are, the curse-ending, Yankee-beating, Cardinal-dominating, World Champion, 2004 Boston Red Sox. In under a minute.
10. June 2010
If you’ve read his book, then you know BSG is a bay area native. If not, Amazon’s got plenty of copies of A Love Letter to Baseball just waiting for you to enjoy! So it was quite the homecoming last week when BSG took the field at Oakland Coliseum to chat it up with the A’s. Only slightly less interesting to the crowd than the post-game fireworks, BSG was still able to talk stances with Andrew Bailey and Daric Barton. Enjoy!
24. May 2010
It was a great weekend of interleague play in NYC, with the Mets taking the subway series 2-1. BSG was recently in Manhattan doing classic stances from both clubs for The Baseball Show on SNY.tv. Meet the Mets ran last week, so, for your Monday, here are the Bronx Bombers. Enjoy!
14. May 2010
The Rangers looked good in their first test against prominent division rivals, the Oakland A’s, winning the series this week 2-1. And as they head up to Toronto today to challenge the mighty Blue Jays, BSG takes a look at what makes this such a great stance team. With the Angels on the decline, C.J. Wilson getting things done on the mound, and Hamilton, Kinsler, and Cruz at the plate, might this be the year the Rangers add a 2nd win to their postseason journal? Or is it just the year you buy a book about batting stances? Either way, it’s the 2010 Rangers.
9. May 2010
Congratulations to Dallas Braden on his perfect game against the Rays today!! A perfect pitcher with a great stance too??!! It’a an embarrassment of riches. Enjoy it A’s fans.
4. May 2010
How many weeks into the season will calling these things previews start to sound ridiculous? We gotta be getting close. Man how bout that game 2 last night Cleveland? You need an elbow repair STAT! Here’s hoping the good people of Cleveland still have several weeks left of pulling for the Cavs. Oh, and not completely unrelated to that, here are the 2010 Indians. Enjoy!
30. April 2010
BSG’s worries that Magglio Ordonez stored his mojo in his jheri curl mullet were calmed yesterday as Mags got his 2,000th career hit in a win over the Twins. Those two seemed to have picked back up right where they left off last year in the AL Central, which should mean another fun battle for all of us. BSG likes the Detroit lineup, and, like the rest of the world, thinks the Damon addition will probably help. But he still misses that jheri curl. Enjoy!
29. April 2010
Fun fact for the day: today in 1986 Roger Clemens struck out 20 Mariners. The M’s are lookin better in 2010 though, and after a pre-season cover appearance on ESPN The Magazine, they’re the trendy pick in the AL West. Maybe folks are just sick of the Angels taking it, who knows. If you’re not familiar with the new Seattle lineup, BSG doesn’t miss a one. Here are your 2010 Seattle Mariners. Enjoy!
28. April 2010
So we swear we recorded this before the Rays had the best record in baseball, but even if you don’t believe us, they do, and we did, so lets get on it with it. BSG likes him some Rays. He likes that it would feel as natural to see Madden at a Coldplay concert as in the dugout at Tropicana. He likes that they’ve got a roster brimming with young talent. He likes that, in the toughest division in baseball, they’ve come outta the gates red hot. Does that have anything to do with the fact that they gave him his own jersey? You decide. The 2010 Rays.
27. April 2010
Fresh off his career 1000th hit, BSG takes a look at Hideki Matsui and the rest of the 2010 Angels. Just how does Mike Scioscia keep this club at the top of the AL West and competing in the playoffs year after year? BSG isn’t sure, but he loves the lineup and the fact that the All-Star game will be in Anaheim this year. Enjoy your 2010 Angels!
24. April 2010
As the Blue Jays look to Twitter to solve their attendance problem at SkyDome, BSG looks to Toronto’s past to help get their fans in the mood for the 2010 season. The AL East is a tough place to live, so why mess with analyzing current rosters when we can hop in the Wayback Machine and visit the magical year of 1998, and a lineup too good to be true. Enjoy!
21. April 2010
If there’s a better collection of stances in MLB this year, BSG can’t find it. In fact he dares you, nay, DOUBLE-DOG dares you to name a better group of batter’s box antics than what they have going on in Chicago this season. The 2010 White Sox are just loaded; Quentin, Beckham, Pierre, Konerko, Alexei, Teahen, Vizquel, the list goes on and on. So here they are, your 2010 White Sox. Enjoy!
13. April 2010
The Minnesota Twins opened up Target Field with a bang yesterday, beating the Red Sox 5-2 and ushering in the open-air era. The end of the Metrodome has BSG wondering though; are these still the loveable, blue-collar Twins of old? One things for sure, with Mauer, Morneau, Nathan, and now Jim Thome, the Twins have the star-power, and perhaps the swagger, to make some noise in the AL this year. Enjoy!
4. April 2010
They kicked off the 2010 season in style tonight at Fenway. America’s two most beloved/hated teams are at it again, and BSG is here to get you up-to-date on the stances to watch for in this year’s rendition of their age-old rivalry. Enjoy.
27. February 2010
While down in Tampa for RaysFest, BSG caught up with our friends from Boston, the good people at WEEI. They asked for his take on the new sluggers they’ll be seeing in Red Sox uniforms this year. So here they all are, in all their pre-Fenway innocence, Bill Hall, Mike Cameron, Marco Scutaro, Jeremy Hermida and Adrian Beltre. Enjoy!
4. January 2010
Chris Johnson joined the 2,000 club yesterday. Congrats, but Nolan’s number was bigger, and his club is still more exclusive.
14. December 2009
There might be something lost in translation as BSG takes on the sheer physical specimen that was Bo Jackson, but you get the idea, Bo knows how to break a bat.
5. October 2009
Postseason heroics from Spiezio and the Angels.
5. October 2009
Garrett Anderson sets the Angels’ single-game RBI record.
30. September 2009
We got a good one going in Detroit folks. Yesterday the Twins and Tigers split the doubleheader to keep the Tigers 2 up. Today they start the 2nd half of their 4-game series at Comerica. The evening win for the Tigers yesterday was thanks in large part to a 2 run scoring double from a guy who’s done it before for em. Have a look at the shot Magglio Ordonez hit in the 2006 ALCS to sweep the A’s and take the Tigers to their first World Series in over 20 years.
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13. July 2010
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