Pirates 8, Brewers 5: Pittsburgh snaps their 17-game skid against Milwaukee, and the Brewers look pretty damn immature in defeat, plunking Jeff Karstens in what I guess was retaliation for him hitting Ryan Braun back in April. This despite the fact that they hit three Pirates the day after the Braun thing, and had an […]

Always remain on the hunt for relievers who might get the chance to play closer for a night.

It may not be as hard to make up ground in batting average as you think.

Diagnosing some trades.

If repeating the same actions and expecting a different outcome is a definition of insanity, then baseball is crazy.

This morning in ATH I said: Ian Kinsler starts the game with a leadoff homer and ends it with a walkoff. Pretty neat! Not so neat that he did it off of a knuckleball, of course — Karma’s gonna kick him in the jewels for that somehow — but I suppose he’s riding pretty high […]

Is it just me, or is it the slowest day in baseball news history? Seems that way, anyway. So I circle back to where I began the day, which is with the Sanchez-Wilson deal. Just read Dejan Kovacevic’s chat transcript over at the Post-Gazette, where he fields this question: Mr_Xiaoqi: How much did the whole […]

Following up on the Man in the Moon post from this morning, Lar at Wezen-Ball has a great post up about how baseball reacted to the “moon landing.” And as a bonus: this is just weird. Oh, and this has nothing to do with baseball, but it’s pretty cool anyway. One wonders what could have […]

Ozzie Guillen saying what I suspect a lot of managers think: “I’m always bored,” Guillen said. “I’m not playing. You’re sitting around for seven innings. My game starts in the sixth [or] seventh inning. That’s when you see me look around the stands a lot, because you play this game for that many years and […]

Just reading some cards from the suggestion box . . . “You suck” “You suck” “Howard Stern rules” “If you can read this you are a dork” “Coupon for one free kiss from Treder if you are a girl” “We need more complaint cards” “Coupon for one free kiss from Treder if you are a […]