Month: September 2025

Updated Labor Day Week MLB Power Rankings

/ Rich Wilkins / 6 Comments

New week, new rankings. Here was week one. Then here is week two. Here’s last week’s. Away we go with this week’s.

  1. The Milwaukee Brewers
  2. The Philadelphia Phillies
  3. The Toronto Blue Jays
  4. The Detroit Tigers
  5. The Chicago Cubs
  6. The Boston Red Sox
  7. The Los Angeles Dodgers
  8. The New York Yankees
  9. The Houston Astros
  10. The San Diego Padres
  11. The New York Mets
  12. The Seattle Mariners
  13. The Texas Rangers
  14. The Cincinnati Reds
  15. The Kansas City Royals
  16. The San Francisco Giants
  17. The Cleveland Guardians
  18. The St. Louis Cardinals
  19. The Arizona Diamondbacks
  20. The Tampa Bay Rays
  21. The Miami Marlins
  22. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
  23. The Oakland Athletics
  24. The Baltimore Orioles
  25. The Atlanta Braves
  26. The Minnesota Twins
  27. The Washington Nationals
  28. The Pittsburgh Pirates
  29. The Chicago White Sox
  30. The Colorado Rockies

Ok, I’ll give you a little more commentary this week. I wanted to move virtually every top 12 team down at a different point in this past week. The reality though is we’ve played five months, and teams kind of are who they are now. The top five teams all have 80 or more wins with 23 or 24 games to go. They should all be 90 plus win teams. Everyone from six to twelve is a playoff team right now with 73 or more wins. Then from 13th back to like 20th, there’s somewhere between a chance and an insane hope of still getting in. After that, I’m almost ranking them based on the vibes. Is this team interesting to watch at least, since they aren’t good. The team trending hardest in the wrong direction is Atlanta. That’s all for now.

Crooksy Literally Takes Labor Day Off From Campaigning

/ Rich Wilkins / 7 Comments

I hope you all enjoyed your Labor Day. Apparently Bob “Crooksy” Brooks was doing something fun. The self-proclaimed “working class hero” apparently didn’t have time to show up to the Lehigh Valley Labor Council Labor Day Picnic on Sunday, despite his big labor endorsements from his own union and the SEIU. Was he off campaigning with State Legislators from other parts of the state? Was he off campaigning with lifelong deadbeat Bernie Sanders in some other state? Was Crooksy stiffing his ex-mother-in-law for even more money? Maybe he was on the internet posting memes from the 3%’ers arguing for arming everyone and making kids pray in schools again? Maybe he was off stealing someone else’s landscaping business? I’m not sure. To hear some folks tell it, he never was much for doing the work. I don’t know why anyone is shocked that this guy already doesn’t really want to campaign.

This guy, who fashions himself a big labor leader, and is banking on essentially usurping the labor support of other candidates, didn’t even want to go hang out with the union people. Sure, he raised a decent amount (less than Crosswell) on his launch, but that was pushed to him by DCCC employees and Deadbeat Bernie’s friends. This guy has no idea what it takes to campaign and win a seat. This fire is too big for Crooksy, and he will prove that to you, again and again.