It wasn’t much in doubt, but now it’s official: Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling says he’s retiring from baseball. The right-hander who won World Series championships with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox announced on his blog Monday that he’s leaving after 23 years with “zero regrets.” Thank God Schilling has been relieved […]

Russ Smith from Splice Today has visited 17 ballparks. He runs them down today. The difference between him and most other folks who write this sort of thing (myself most especially): He’s capable of honesty when it comes to his own team’s park: Fenway Park. Surprisingly, I have mixed feelings about Fenway, despite a slavish […]

The nightmare that unfolded in Oakland over the weekend hit particularly close to home for the A’s organization: Two of the officers, Dunakin and Hege, often worked A’s games at the Oakland Coliseum, according to David Rinetti, the team’s vice president of stadium operations. “It hit me hard,” Rinetti said. Hege spent years providing security […]

Today is the final vote for the Marlins’ stadium. As you’re waiting for that, why not click over to Facebook and find out which President or Superhero the proposed park would be: The most annoying Facebook gizmo in history appeared in December. Worse than Vampire Wars and the gifting of virtual beer, it inveigled users […]

. . . this is simply an exercise in delusion: If San Diego’s offense were a restaurant, it would be getting one-star reviews from some observers. Scouts have generally been remarkably unimpressed by the Padres’ lineup. Then, there was the GM of another National League West team who said anonymously that the Friars “look like […]

Kepner notes that Sabathia is becoming a leader. After noting that his slide step from the stretch helped Posada throw a couple of guys out, he cites other examples: The Yankees lavished a $161 million contract on Sabathia to give their rotation an ace. As a bonus, they gained a team leader. Sabathia has taken […]

As Posnanski continues his quest to figure out how newspapers will work in the future, Jay at Fack Youk wonders how blogs are going to work. After several very worthwhile paragraphs about what a person’s bookshelf says about them and the arguable irrelevance of books when you’re blogging your butt off every day, Jay asks […]

Hey, it’s not just cynical jerks like me who don’t like the WBC. Even those who are said to embrace it the most have their qualms: But the off-the-field contest between the two most powerful ball-playing nations — Japan and the U.S. — is a subject that Japanese league administrators and team management, local liaisons, […]

Things to read as you contemplate entropy: Chris Jaffe has five questions about the Chicago White Sox. Question number six: Any plans to do a throwback day with the shorts and wide collars this year? Because I could get into that. Evan Brunell’s Lost in Transactions. Apparently the Rangers read Posnanski, because they took a […]

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