At some point in their career — many points if you work in a certain type of law firm — every young lawyer is asked to find some legal authority to support a truly dumbass argument that the partner for whom they’re working thinks is brilliant. Some precedent which stands for a proposition which flies […]

Catch up with Steve and Matthew as they complete their virtual decade with the robust Red Sox.

Lost in Transactions recaps a defense and pitching-heavy week.

This time, putting up the numbers of last year is not ideal.

Word from New York of yet another suitor pulling out.

One of those writing projects I mentioned in the previous post is a book review I’m doing for the New York Post of Allen St. John’s book about the Super Bowl called The Billion Dollar Game. Really good book, by the way, and I’ll link the review here when it runs. But something in it […]

Because I’m a terrible procrastinator, I’ve come dangerously close to blowing the deadlines for two non-blog writing projects. As such, today will be a bit slower than usual as I scramble to whip rough drafts into publishing shape. I’ll be around, though, so if the questionable Manny Ramirez rumor turns out to be true and […]

I often think I’m a pretty obsessive blogger, but I got nothin’ on this guy.

For those of you who haven’t seen this elsewhere, The MLB Network is kicking things off on January 1st with a rebroadcast of Don Larsen’s perfect game from the 1956 World Series. I was planning on watching that anyway, but this article contains two little details of which I wasn’t previously aware which make it […]

It’s so cold outside that if the thermometer were any longer we’d all freeze to death. So why don’t you stay inside, mix your favorite beverage, and warm yourself with some fresh, hot baseball: Chris Jaffe examines why everybody seems to hate Steve Garvey. Garvey-hate is an occasionally funny baseball-on-the-Internet meme, but I have to […]