The fact of a short series is that anything can happen.

How many beers does C.B. Bucknor owe Phil Cuzzi for taking the heat off him?

Not Moneyball, according to MTV Movies blogger Larry Carroll: “Yeah, I have another idea for a baseball movie that actually doesn’t have any baseball in it,” the “Informant!” filmmaker revealed to us recently and more than a bit cryptically. “I am going to see MLB when I’m in New York to talk to them about […]

This article has a little bit of everything: A masked fan ejected from a Phillies playoff game is charged with stealing three World Series rings from a ballpark office. The Phillies have now had four such rings stolen since winning the title last year. Police say 22-year-old Matthew Mervine of Berlin, N.J., was videotaped taking […]

Rosenthal has the Nats interviewing Braves’ scouting director Roy Clark for the assistant GM job. If Clark were to jump ship, it would be . . . bad. Clark has been courted by the Nats before and turned them down. That was more of a lateral move, however. If Robo is right, this is something […]

DanUpBaby from Viva El Birdos: Nine-hundred and eighty times out of a thousand Matt Holliday catches the ball. Seven-hundred and eighty times out of a thousand a batter facing Ryan Franklin doesn’t reach base safely. If I keep saying that he sucks he can’t suck. None of it matters in that one instant except to […]

An article by Craig Calcaterra is like a fart. It stinks, but it will soon go away! You guys often ask me how I put up with the NBC commenters. I have no idea what you mean. This stuff is GOLD!

Things I wrote while wondering why Greg Maddux never won a Nobel Peace Prize: Leave Matt Holliday alone, will ya? Admission: that post is basically a rehash of this morning’s ATH, so if you read it already you can probably move along. Don’t look at me like that. Even great programs like “The Simpsons,” “Lost” […]

A faltering franchise, postseason rosters and a little history highlight this week’s missive from Cooperstown.

Max explores the effect that workloads early in the season have on a pitcher’s fastball speed by the end of the summer.