As the season winds down, Waiver Wire looks at eight NL end-of-the-year options for you, including three spot-start pitchers and three players fighting for a 2010 position.

Being a rent-a-analyst for one day—for MGL.

Sometimes a re-broadcast of an old game can start the mind churning. That’s what happened in the creation of this week’s edition of Card Corner.

Tim Lincecum, previously believed to be content going year to year, says he’s open to a long term deal with the Giants.

Speaking of fakery, check out this obvious Photoshop job. I know it’s a fraud because it’s a scientific fact that Bobby Cox was born into this world as a cranky 66 year old man with a protruding belly. Seriously though, nice work Jay Matt.

No, I’m not talking about the stuff in which he claims to be the product of Mickey Mantle’s assexual reproduction. We all know he made that up and we’re all content to let him go on thinking we believe it. I’m talking about his actual baseball playing. As reader Bob Tufts points out, Crystal’s Wikipedia […]

Scott Simkus rocks. Why? Becuase he does stuff like find and analyze stats from Negro League barnstorming tours against white minor league teams in order to try and get a better understanding of how the talent pool looked in the days of pre-integration. In other news, what kind of backlash would I get if I […]

In light of a few high profile player-ump confrontations this year you’d think that we’re reaching some sort of boiling point in white-gray-blue relations, but that’s simply not the case: From 2002 to 2005, at least 100 ballplayers per season were tossed out of games by umpires. After a slight decrease the past three years, […]

I realize that I’ve totally whiffed on the Bobby Cox story. It just fell through the cracks inasmuch as I was taken away from my computer yesterday afternoon and by the time I got to NBC this morning someone else had already hit it up. This being the Internet, it now kind of feels like […]

How it’s possible to miss four days of work yet have seven days worth of work to makeup is beyond me, but I’ll be damned if that’s not what I’m facing at the moment. Oh well, it’s isn’t going anywhere, so I’ll try to get to at least some new stuff this afternoon. In the […]