Things to read while you contemplate snow-outs in Chicago: The THT staff has its predictions up. I am the sole person who has the Rangers winning the division. No, I’m not sure why either. Just feels right. Chris Jaffe runs down times when baseball history and real life history coincided. Not as good as the […]

The guys at River Ave. Blues have a pledge drive going to benefit the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: Last year we decided to use the popularity of RAB for some good, creating a pledge drive dedicated to raising money for The Jorge Posada Foundation. We based the pledges on the number of strikeouts […]

A very long piece in Vanity Fair in which a writer, who comes right out and admits that he doesn’t care a lick for baseball, spends time in spring training trying to figure out if baseball will save America’s psyches from the economic doldrums or something. I found it frustrating for a hundred reasons, yet […]

Anyone who’s been around here any length of time is well-aware of my man crush on Josh Wilker and Cardboard Gods. I think he’s the best writer going in and around the world of baseball. That’s not a qualification; just an acknowledgment that he’s often not writing about baseball directly. Point is his stuff is […]

Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter, Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here . . . Braves 4, Phillies 1: Last year the Braves traveled to a division rival’s home park for the Sunday night opener and it didn’t go so well. Last night there were no complaints at […]

The Hardball Times staff calls the 2009 season.

A breakdown of a reader’s fantasy team.

A look at occasions when important real life events and famous baseball moments happened at the same time.

The Sox have added depth their team in hopes it can get them a third ring… but they need Josh Beckett, David Ortiz and others to get them there. Can they?

Link to this week’s Fantasy Baseball Roundtable.