The Tacoma News-Tribune catches up with Lou Piniella and gets him reminiscing about his says in Seattle: “We had Randy (Johnson), Junior, Alex (Rodriguez), Edgar (Martinez), (Jay) Buhner to name a few. That’s a pretty impressive array of talent,” Piniella said, adding quickly: “I didn’t screw it up.”

The only thing worse than having the racist visage of Chief Wahoo staring down at you as you drive around the Indians’ spring training facility is having the racist visage of Chief Wahoo staring down at you as you drive around what is no longer the Indians’ spring training facility: The face of Chief Wahoo, […]

Attorney General Eric Holder and the guy he and Obama have chosen to head up the Criminal Division of the DOJ are recusing/will be recusing themselves from the Roger Clemens investigation and any potential prosecution: Attorney general Eric Holder has cited a conflict of interest in recusing himself from any legal matters involving Roger Clemens, […]

The Padres have been spoiled, er, I mean lucky enough to have the the city of San Diego footing the bill for much of the cost of Petco Park. Now San Diego, like every other city, is strapped for cash, and has had to look for help to make the debt payments on the ballpark […]

Here’s the kicker of that Dominican Republic-Netherlands elimination game I linked this morning. Manager Felipe Alou started David Ortiz at first base — a position he hasn’t played in the Majors since 2007, and hasn’t played well since God knows when — because he wanted extra offense. The result: Ortiz goes 1-4 and the D.R. […]

Things to read while you realize that anything can happen in this crazy game: Dave Studeman and Mike Webber were tasked with finding little statistical nuggets for inclusion in Bill James’ new Gold Mine book. Bill axed a bunch of them, even though they were pretty darn good. He’s Bill James. He can do that. […]

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