A list of players who appear primed for good finishes to the season.

What if Frankie hadn’t been quite so frantic in Cleveland?

With a new uniform in 2009, he took a new approach to his job.

Randy Wolf and Joe Saunders highlight our attempt to catch up with the season’s pitching award leaders.

Note: A somewhat different version of this review was originally written for the New York Post. It didn’t run, however, and given how rarely it is that I praise something, I figured it was worth sharing with the world. It’s been nearly 30 years since Thurman Munson’s plane went down in Canton, Ohio, killing the […]

After all season, we finally have a new team atop the Dartboard. Move over, LA.

Via BTF, Milwaukeeans Jason Albert and Steven Hyden debate the merits of a professional sporting press. I tend to agree with Hyden, who believes that there is still a real need for working reporters with access. People like me certainly can’t report anything. The highest and best use for bloggers, in my humble opinion, is […]

Amounts to very little in the grand scheme of things, but this blog post about it by John Fay at the Cincy Enquirer website has me thinking about stuff: David Weathers was in the seat in front of me on the red eye from San Francisco to Cincinnati. “Walt Jocketty isn’t the most popular guy […]

AmLaw Daily is talking about that MLB-Topps baseball card deal from last week and raises the notion that Upper Deck could file an antitrust suit. Countering that is the assertion in the article that “In 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court established a common-law exemption for Major League Baseball in cases involving antitrust laws, a decision […]

Jermaine Jackson got himself a souvenir yesterday: In the bottom of the second inning, Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal lifted a foul ball toward the area where Jackson was sitting, and Jackson didn’t hesitate. Jermaine, a right-hander wearing a Manny Ramirez No. 99 jersey, made a nifty backhanded grab and celebrated the snatching of the souvenir. […]