Phillies 9, Cardinals 2: Trading for Matt Holliday is all Wellemeyer and good, but you gotta pitch too. Despite their new bauble, the Cards drop two of three to the Phils, and find themselves knocked out of first place because . . . Cubs 5, Reds 2: The Cubbies are on fire. I was a […]

That’s what Lord Haw Haw is Tweeting this evening: #yankees might – repeat, might – consider giving up joba for #halladay. but wont entertain request of joba & hughes. Whatever. It’s crazy season and guys like Heyman Tweeting whatever they overhear in the men’s room just add to the glory of it all. Even the […]

If anyone in baseball was gonna get it, you kind of had to figure that it would have been Mike Hampton, but instead it’s Padilla: Texas Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla tested positive for swine flu, though his symptoms are subsiding and he’s expected to make his next start. Padilla was scratched from his start Wednesday […]

I love the readers at NBC. I really do! And despite my worst fears going in, I’d say 99.9% of them are reasonable people. But then there’s that .1% . . . Here’s a comment that came in response to my saying — with my tongue very obviously in my cheek — that it would […]

Kind of a lost day for me as the legal job sapped the afternoon away, but let’s close on an amusing note, shall we? For weeks now, Delaware’s sports betting, under the umbrella of the state lottery, has received major criticism. The NFL has been at the reigns of the opposition, and now the verbal […]

I like organ music. I like the Braves. Ergo, I like articles about organ music at Braves games: For the past four years, the Atlanta Braves had used recorded organ music for games at Turner Field, but it wasn’t the same. Fans heard the familiar, traditional sound of an organ, but without a living, breathing, […]

So my wife — who is not a baseball fan by any stretch of the imagination — goes to the Columbus Clippers-Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees game last night. It was a work function and the beer was free. You know how that goes. Anyway, when she came downstairs this morning I asked her how it went. […]

White Sox 5, Rays 0: Nice game for Josh Fields (1-4, grand slam). Scott Kazmir’s nightmare season continues. Rumors have him on the trading block to free up some salary for the Rays to get Lee or someone. What a difference a year makes. Wait, why are you looking at me like that? Did something […]

When do position players go pop?

Some deeper league pitching options, Colorado’s new starting left fielder and Cincinnati’s new starting catcher are part of this week’s analysis of possible NL roster additions.