The Reds are going with a dollar menu at Great American Ballpark this year: It might seem just like a fast-food restaurant when you walk into Great American Ball Park for a Reds game this season. The Cincinnati Reds’ concessionaire is launching a value menu, offering a few food and drink items for a dollar. […]

Today at THT will run later today (maybe). I got a late start this morning — I blame the cold medicine — and can’t devote the time to it I’ll need to. The line for complaints forms on the left. I’ll be on the right. Regular blogging will resume on its usual schedule. The line […]

Feeling confident donning my white lab coat, I’ll take a look at another roster.

Carpenter repair? And what about the defense?

The numbers say they may surprise

Hint: It is easier to find position scarcity than you think.

A look at the relationship between how hard a pitcher throws and his ability to prevents hits on balls in play.

Look, you’re not going to find a guy more happy to read a love letter to Greg Maddux than me — hell, I’ve written a number of them — but it does seem a little cruel for Tim Kurkjian to spend nearly 1500 words slamming Nats’ pitcher Daniel Cabrera for not being Greg Maddux: For […]

Columnist George Will writes a letter to the editor at Forbes, defending Bud Selig against claims that he was asleep at the switch as far as PEDs were concerned and that he has, overall, been a poor commissioner. Money quote: Steve, serious baseball fans argue about everything–the best hitter, the best World Series, the best […]

The dynamics described in the previous post (i.e. diminishing franchise value freaking owners the hell out) are on display with this news item as well: Padres chairman John Moores will spin the front-office carousel yet again Thursday when the club expects to announce that Jeff Moorad will take over as CEO, with Sandy Alderson stepping […]