Everyone figured Jim Bowden wasn’t long for this world, and as you probably saw, over the weekend he resigned. Tom Boswell comes to bury Caesar, not to praise him: Jim Bowden was never going to be the Nationals’ ultimate general manager, the man who, the franchise hoped, would oversee a potential champion. His methods were […]

Summer 2007: Posada kicks butt Fall 2007: Posada signs gigantic contract 2008-onward: Posada breaks down: Yankees catcher Jorge Posada said the new soreness in his surgically repaired right shoulder was nothing to worry about. But there was enough concern within the Yankees’ medical staff for Manager Joe Girardi to scratch Posada from the lineup for […]

Things to read while wondering whether Aragorn ever regretted releasing the Army of the Dead before that final attack on Mordor: John Beamer straightens out all of you knuckleheads who routinely mess up your correlation and your R squared. Me? I never touch the stuff. Chris Jaffe reviews a book by Robert Fitts on Wally […]

Remember last year when the Astros and their fans complained for a week about having to play a bunch of road games due to Hurricane Ike? Well, I didn’t have any sympathy for them then, and I definitely don’t have any sympathy for them now, because compared to the University of Maine at Presque Isle, […]

On Thursday evening I sat down for an audio interview with Rob Zeida of The Card Podcast. We talked about Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, obscure Atlanta Braves of the 1980s, blogging, herpes, Gaylord Perry and a lot of other fun stuff. The podcast can be found here (I’m episode 23). I’ll warn you, however: I […]

ESPN’s legal expert Lester Munson comes down on the Bonds’ appeal quite differently than I do. Regarding the prosecution’s chances on appeal: Their chances are good. Many legal experts were surprised at Illston’s rulings. The prosecutors offered clever and creative arguments for the use of their evidence. The major obstacle, of course, was personal trainer […]

No makeup date scheduled: And so the Barry Bonds saga rages on. With little end in sight. What once seemed like closure on the horizon — a perjury trial for baseball’s home run king set to begin Monday, nearly six years after the BALCO scandal first erupted — now has been put on indefinite hold. […]

We knew this would happen, but now we know what Illston is going to do about it: Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds’ former personal trainer and the government’s most coveted witness in the perjury case against baseball’s home run king, still refuses to testify under oath. As expected, Anderson, through his lawyer, today told U.S. District […]

George Vecsey writes today about “the incredibly shrinking ballplayer.” There’s a lot of fun stuff in this article, but there’s a lot I’m skeptical about as well. So rather than sharpen some single point about it, I thought I’d change tack and just riff a little bit. Hey, it’s casual day: Out of the roughly […]

I’m an occasional source for Newsday writer John Jeansonne, so I take an occasional, ego-driven interest in what goes on at that paper. What goes on now? Probably the end of my reading of Newsday: Cablevision Systems Corp plans to charge online readers of its Newsday newspaper, a move that would make it one of […]