Ahhhh, Wilker goodness. This is more like it. Feel free to take a couple of extra days now, Rob. BTW I, and I assume many other bloggers, got another baseball card in the mail recently. I don’t have it in front of me, but it’s a 1975 common whose name I’m forgetting. Lovely card though. […]

Gray day, everything is gray. I watch but nothing moves today: Hank Aaron is wrong. Alternative title: the post which has caused all kinds of people to come out of the woodwork and call me an idiot. Mother of mercy! Is this the end of Rico? Er, Prior? ESPN brings the hammer down on sports […]

Dodgers 17, Brewers 4: In a scene out of late-80s WCW, after the game, Prince Fielder ran through the underground tunnels to go put a hurt on Guillermo Mota in retaliation for a ninth-inning plunking. Fortunately for Mota’s health and Fielder’s wallet, he was stopped at the Dodgers’ clubhouse door (though I’m guessing he’s gonna […]

A HITf/x look at the horizontal spray of balls put in play, by location and type of pitch.

Who moved my cheese? Again?

The latest in the business of baseball.

All I have to say is boo friggin’ hoo to these guys who get paid 7 or 8 figures a year to play a game… Suck it up and deal with it. Not like baseball requires much physical exertion, you stand out in the field and maybe sprint 8 or 9 times in a 3 […]

Rob, please come back from your vacation soon, because I don’t know that I can take much more of this.

Lots of talk recently about the ethics of blockquotes and linkbacks and all of that. First you had the AP being silly. Then, on Sunday, came the much-discussed Ian Shapira article in the Washington Post. Today Maury applies that to baseball, talking about the role of “aggregators” such as Baseball Think Factory, MLB Trade Rumors, […]

That dude who threw that ball at that fan got convicted. Sorry for the brevity. I’m thinking about fair use and attribution and stuff right now, so I’m kind of afraid to type anything (another post to follow).