A look at the fantasy ramifications of last night’s trade.

In case you don’t read the comments that often, there’s a fantastic Star Wars conversation happening in “And That Happened.” I’m preoccupied with the OSHA violations on the Death Star, Lar worries about whether C-3PO was unfair to R2 when he left him after the escape pod crash-landed, and everyone wants to know whether or […]

Maury gets a zillion guys — myself included — to weigh in on their use and abuse of social networking stuff like Twitter and Facebook and the like. I don’t use Twitter and don’t have any plans to, so I was curious if the assembled brains over there could convince me that I’m making a […]

The Giants picked up a new first baseman: The Giants acquired first baseman Ryan Garko from the Indians on Monday, filling a big need in the infield and adding a key right-handed bat . . . The Giants, who fell out of the wild-card lead with a 3-7 road trip, gave up Class-A left-hander Scott […]

Rested and ready to dive headlong into the second half, we look at Mr. Perfection and a new Hall of Famer who decided it was time to tell young kids that it’s important to remember to ground out to the second baseman.

Adam Rubin has responded in print to Omar Minaya’s mad ramblings. I’m pretty satisfied with it. My take on it all is up here.

A very grand-slammy day around the Majors . . . Nationals 14, Brewers 6: Josh Willingham with two grand slams and eight RBI. I think that’s more production than his trade counterpart Emilio Bonifacio has had all season. Mets 7, Rockies 3: An eighth inning pinch hit grand slam by Fernando Tatis puts a happy […]

Eriq tells you which bullpen situations you should be paying close attention to.

Royals starter looks at PITCHf/x, understands it, and, best of all, applies it.

They’re claiming that links to Associated Press stories violate fair use: Tom Curley, The A.P.’s president and chief executive, said the company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with the news organization that produced it. In an interview, he specifically cited references that include a headline […]