Steroids and libel suits go together like liver and onions: really well actually, but they still leave a bad taste in your mouth: The publisher and authors of a book about steroid use in major league baseball were sued today by a Texas man who says they falsely claimed he was “pushing” steroids to professional […]

Things to think about the next time you complain about your 20 minute flight delay. Things I wrote about while complaining about my colleague who was late with the Monday morning donuts: Jeff Francoeur’s PR team made the trip to New York with him. I’m not sure of a lot of things in this world, […]

Part of me wonders if I’ll ever write a post like this one from Andrew Sullivan. Then I realize that, by definition, it’s easier to blog about baseball than politics because, while I feel very strongly about the issues in the game, neither those issues or my writing about them is going to impact anyone’s […]

After decades of slamming the Chicago Tribune in particular, and several months of loudly proclaiming that newspapers are dead, Jay Mariotti is supposedly going to be doing a weekly column for the Tribune as of September 1st. Which is fine, because I am capable of ignoring Mariotti across multiple platforms. I just wonder if, in […]

A look at the fantasy community’s growing — perceived or otherwise — reliance on single-year statistics.

They couldn’t look less alike, but 2009 has been a mirror season for these power first basemen.

There is something to be said about enjoying a random game that turns into something special.

Adam breaks down the rest of the deadline trades using his trade value model, including the Matt Holliday, Freddy Sanchez and Jarrod Washburn deals.

Yankees 5, Red Sox 2: Brutal weekend for Boston. Dropping four straight to the Yankees is bad enough, but doing it on the heels of dropping two to the Rays is something of a tone-setter. Especially considering how ugly a series this was for them: Thursday and Saturday were pathetic. Friday was a stomach punch. […]

This post originally appeared on NBC’s Circling the Bases on July 31, 2009. However, due to a recent platform changeover at NBC, it can be really hard to find in the archives (here is a link to where it currently resides, though that might change). I’m now reposting it in its entirety, because with the […]