Allen Barra lays the lumber to Derek Jeter: This will be Jeter’s 14th season (not counting 1995, when he only played 15 games), and judging from the blogs and radio call-in shows, Yankee fans are assuming that he is a walking Hall of Famer, but I don’t necessarily think that’s true. If he pulled a […]

Yesterday I ran two posts about potential unrest in the Land of the Lords of the Realm. You can read them here and here. Upshot: even billionaire playboys are not immune to the current economic downturn, and in fact they are particularly vulnerable if they either (a) depend on real estate for their fortune or […]

I felt a great disturbance in the fantasy baseball Force, as if millions of Matt Wieters owners cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced: The Orioles told top prospect Matt Wieters on Thursday that he will be reassigned to the Triple-A Norfolk roster effective Monday. Manager Dave Trembley met with Wieters after Thursday’s exhibition […]

The Reds are going with a dollar menu at Great American Ballpark this year: It might seem just like a fast-food restaurant when you walk into Great American Ball Park for a Reds game this season. The Cincinnati Reds’ concessionaire is launching a value menu, offering a few food and drink items for a dollar. […]

Today at THT will run later today (maybe). I got a late start this morning — I blame the cold medicine — and can’t devote the time to it I’ll need to. The line for complaints forms on the left. I’ll be on the right. Regular blogging will resume on its usual schedule. The line […]

Look, you’re not going to find a guy more happy to read a love letter to Greg Maddux than me — hell, I’ve written a number of them — but it does seem a little cruel for Tim Kurkjian to spend nearly 1500 words slamming Nats’ pitcher Daniel Cabrera for not being Greg Maddux: For […]

Columnist George Will writes a letter to the editor at Forbes, defending Bud Selig against claims that he was asleep at the switch as far as PEDs were concerned and that he has, overall, been a poor commissioner. Money quote: Steve, serious baseball fans argue about everything–the best hitter, the best World Series, the best […]

The dynamics described in the previous post (i.e. diminishing franchise value freaking owners the hell out) are on display with this news item as well: Padres chairman John Moores will spin the front-office carousel yet again Thursday when the club expects to announce that Jeff Moorad will take over as CEO, with Sandy Alderson stepping […]

No, really: Rangers owner Tom Hicks is attempting to sell a minority share of up to 49 percent of the ballclub he purchased in 1998, he said on Tuesday at the team’s Spring Training complex. Merrill Lynch, the international investment banking firm, which became a unit of Bank of America last year, has been hired […]

Milton Bradley, commenting on how so many experts are picking the Cubs to win the NL Central: “They should. I’m here. I’m a winner. When I went to the Dodgers, after they hadn’t been to the postseason since ’88, they went to the postseason. I went to the A’s in 2006. We weren’t supposed to […]