Here's a pop quiz to see if you think like a mascot. Jack Nicholson shows up at a game in your hometown. Do you A) politely ask Nicholson for his autograph, B) watch the Shining and Good as it Gets before heading to the game,...

Do you miss 70s cop-buddy drama CHiPS? What about awkward conversations about child pornography and police cracking down on it? Well, then clearly you haven't been watching enough Cubs games! That's because Erik Estrada, he...

Well, now they've gone and done it. Surely Harry Caray could have put up with almost anyone else crooning "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in his epic Wrigley Field, but Mr. T of A-Team and ridiculous jewelry fame? That's hard...

Having a guest celebrity lead the crowd in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch is a longstanding tradition. Unfortunately, last week one of the celebrity hosts was Denise Richards. The...

There are certainly a number of jobs worse than being a beer man for a major league baseball team. Think about it: You get to see every home game, you make everyone happy and you probably get better and better tips the more...

The video on the left is an ad for the now annual NHL Winter Classic, the outdoor hockey game which pits two teams in a stadium traditionally used for football or, in the case of the 2009 game, for baseball. So how is the NHL...

It was all happening again. After building an early lead and leaning on the tired and, most importantly, old, arm of Pedro Martinez, the Mets found themselves down late in a game after the bullpen watched another lead...

Just when you thought the Mets were going to collapse out of another playoff berth, Johan Santana takes the mound and everyone remembers why the team dealt and paid so much to bring him in. The ace lasted eight innings in...

Cubs fans are always delirious whenever their beloved baseball team wins, even if it's just a mid-week regular season game. Well, this time they had a reason to go bonkers after the Cubs clinched the NL Central title for the...

Occasionally, in the midst of a team's complete meltdown, you can single out one individual heartbreaking loss that did them in. Check out the Brewers' performance on Thursday, when they let a four-run lead slip away with two...

Hurricane Ike has caused immeasurable disaster and wreaked utter havoc across Texas and parts of Louisiana. But there was one benefit to the precise path Ike chose: It relocated the site of the first Cubs no-hitter in the...

It's not every day that a catcher gets completely obliterated in a play at the plate, let alone when the catcher is an all-star like Yadier Molina. It's even less rare when the catcher is taken out by a pitcher. In fact, we...

OK, not only did a particularly talented fan in the Wrigley Field bleachers egg a Braves outfielder into tossing him one of the team's warm-up balls, he then proceeded to catch said toss in his crappy, flimsy beer cup and...

It was a scary night at Wrigley Field on Monday, complete with blinding wind and rain and, eventually, weather alert sirens. But none of those warnings could keep Elvis out of the building or off the rain-soaked tarp. Sure,...

Carlos Zambrano vs. Ben Sheets? Yes please! Well, the Brewers were plenty pissed when the matchup turned into a one-sided whitewash, paving the way to a Cubs rout that put the Northsiders in control of the NL Central. Now, if...