A series of funny anecdotes about how the anniversary of the moon landing intersected with baseball. I’m a little dubious of the Gaylord Perry story — the home run was legit, but I’m guessing Alvin Dark’s comments wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny. This one was pretty good though: It was 10:56 p.m. when Armstrong walked […]

Well, it should have been called that anyway.

One scans the wire reports in this line of work, and sometimes the wire reports contain strange things. Like this list of remaining free agents: BOSTON (5) – Paul Byrd, rhp; Sean Casey, 1b; Curt Schilling, rhp; Mike Timlin, rhp. CLEVELAND (1) – Scott Elarton, rhp. DETROIT (2) – Todd Jones, rhp; Kenny Rogers, lhp. […]

My boy turned four yesterday and started the proceedings off by waking up at 6 A.M., eating two bowls of Cocoa Puffs and then demanding presents, cake and the like for the next 15 hours. If the recaps are less than stellar today, it’s because I’m whupped. Braves 7, Mets 1: Correlation is not the […]

Much like Zach Duke in 2005, J.A. Happ has had a great first 80 plus innings. Will they be similar in his next 80?

With help from SG of the Replacement Level Yankee Weblog and his 1,000 season simulator, Chris looks at the best team to lose the World Series.

My most favoritist ballplayer ever is getting his number retired tonight, so today we get one of those “what made Maddux tick” stories, the likes of which have come once or twice every year since the mid 90s. I’m taken with this passage: Players and coaches always described Maddux’s baseball acumen as almost a sixth […]

At the risk of stirring up crap again, I link to Dave Zirin, who this week opines on relative dearth of blacks in baseball. After quoting some guys who have their opinions (e.g. basketball and football are more exciting, baseball isn’t hip, kids have more options), Zirin gets to the nut of why he thinks […]

Via Pinto, The Soxaholix gets all Thomas Stearns Eliot on us. This is he best juxtiposition of Modernism and baseball since Ferlinghetti sat in the stands at Candlestick Park reading Ezra Pound. And screw Eliot, by the way. “April is the cruellest month?” That’s when opening day is! Eliot was born in St. Louis! I […]

Those of you still pining for Mark Cuban to become a Major League owner will be happy to hear that the insider trading charges have been dismissed. The dismissal is based on a pleading deficiency. In very basic terms, the government alleged that Cuban did X wrong, but the law requires that he have done […]