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Bud Selig says he’s done in 2012. He also said that he was done in 2008 and 2004 and I’m pretty sure he was going to be done in 2000 as well. But this time, dadgummit, he really means it: Reuters: Two years ago you told us that none of your cohorts would believe you […]

You lawyers in the audience may be curious to hear which law firms are representing which potential owners’ groups in the sale of the Chicago Cubs. If so, AmLaw Daily has you covered: Jeffrey Samuels, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets, but over […]

Lar from the blog Wezen-Ball stumbled upon a gold mine of awesome yesterday, in the form of the 1981 Sporting News Baseball Yearbook, which featured “experts” — quotes of dubiousness included because Bowie Kuhn was one of them — predicting what baseball would be like in THE YEAR 2000!!! The best one — which I […]

Holden Caulfield –er, I mean Joel Sherman of the New York Post has some sharp words for Andy Pettitte: If Pettitte signs elsewhere, regardless of the dollar figure, he should be viewed as a world-class phony forever around here. There should be no more pardons. He should receive no invites to future Old-Timers Games, hear […]

While I suspect that a lot of longtime ShysterBall readers are longtime THT readers as well, that probably doesn’t go for everyone, so I’m going to try to make a regular point of letting you blog-feed-only people know that there is a lot of really spiffy stuff being posted over here every day. For example, […]

Scott Simkus of the blog, um, Scott Simkus, thought his readers were tired of his interesting and informative posts about baseball history and decided to interview a bald lawyer/blogger yesterday. One of the things about bald lawyers/bloggers is that they crave attention and love to talk about themselves, so you can imagine that the interview […]