I sometimes have a hard time saying “no.” Example: despite the fact that I am the worst fantasy baseball player in creation, I have somehow found myself with teams in three leagues. I’m starting my second season in a Diamondmind league that Dayn Perry put together, my first season in a Scoresheet league populated by […]

In yesterday’s People in my Neighborhood post I mentioned Jorge Says No!’s piece about the early signers getting better deals this offseason. Sam Miller at the OC Register’s Angels Blog takes issue: Josh at the excellent Jorge Says No has begun running down winners and losers among off-season free agents, and spots a trend that […]

Because I planned on, you know, having a regular job and everything by now, I hadn’t pitched anyone on the idea of sending me out to California in March to cover the Barry Bonds trial. Now that I still have free time, however, it seems like a splendid idea. Because more people read these posts […]

Allen Barra — with the help of J.C. Bradbury, David Ezra, and even Bob Costas — explains why, whatever we may think of Roger Clemens, there is no denying that he was a Hall of Famer before his alleged PED use: The numbers support both Ezra and Bradbury. McNamee claims that Clemens’ use of HGH […]

They’re trying to build a publicly-financed ballpark/development in Richmond, and woe be unto those who oppose it: The debate over a ballpark in Shockoe Bottom is getting louder, especially at 15th and East Main streets. A large, bright yellow sign, exclaiming “No Stadium in Shockoe,” hangs from the side of the building above the neon-lit […]

The man who started the whole Radomski-McNamee wing of the steroids business has been outed by The Smoking Gun: The snitch recorded his phone calls with ballplayers, wore a wire to meetings with FBI targets, and ordered steroids and human growth hormone at the direction of federal agents. For a year, he expertly gathered information […]

It’s interesting to see politicians and media people excoriating Citigroup for the Mets’ naming rights deal while folks who, you know, actually know stuff about business and sports are defending it. This from Darren Rovell: It is not rational to think the contract can just be dissolved, so if we want to talk breakup fee, […]

We’ve come across this guy before, but here’s more on Carl Yastrzemski’s grandson, who will soon be playing for Vanderbilt. I find the scouts’ comments the most interesting. Maybe Keith Law is more qualified to parse their assessments, but they sort of sound guarded, like the way you sound when someone gives you a clunker […]

For those interested — especially fellow shysters with a PACER login and password — here’s the mother lode of US v. Barry Bonds documents, pleadings, etc. I haven’t had a chance to really go over them in any detail, but my cursory review of it confirms what has been obvious for some time: the government […]

Things to read while thinking about how long you have to be unemployed before you can start putting down “blogger” as your occupation on official forms . . . Colin Wyers continues his series on how to measure a player’s value. I think the worst thing about this is the table in which it is […]