Further evidence that last week’s flurry of press releases from the Bonds prosecutors was more flash than substance: Jason Giambi told a federal grand jury in 2003 that he didn’t know whether Barry Bonds was taking banned substances and that he never gained any information about the home run king’s alleged drug regimen from his […]

Baseball is doing right by Lou Gehrig and everyone else with the disease that bears his name: On July 4, the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s immortal “luckiest man on the face of the earth” speech, Major League Baseball will help fight the disease that bears the name of its doomed hero. In 15 home […]

First he has a two-year, $40 million option, but he doesn’t want it picked up. Then he gets a two-year $45 million offer, and doesn’t answer the phone. Then he gets a one-year, $25 million offer, and rejects it: Manny Ramirez wasted no time rejecting the Dodgers’ latest offer, a one-year, $25-million proposal that was […]

Baseball Toaster — home to many a fine blog such as Cardboard Gods, Dodger Thoughts, and the Griddle — has ceased to be: If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ve noticed that Baseball Toaster has had a bunch of its knobs and switches and dials and wires fall off in recent months. Today, with the […]

Bud Selig: “Very well, if that is the way the winds are blowing, let no one say I don’t also blow:“ Last year’s World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays was interrupted by torrential rain and cold weather in Philadelphia. Would Selig consider shifting the World Series to a neutral warm-weather city […]

Things to download and read in the event you happen to be stuck on a cross-country flight tonight. Well, unless you have something cooler to look at. Steve Treder continues his look at lefthanders, this time hitting up the shortstops. And no, I don’t think we’ve reached fetish territory yet. That won’t come unless and […]

Call me crazy, but I don’t think the Dallas Morning News understands blogging: Barack Obama impressed me yesterday by sticking to his gut and picking Pittsburg to win the Super Bowl. Many elected officials waffle when it comes to sports, like Hillary wearing Cubs and Yankees caps. Obama picked the Steelers because team ownership supported […]

For Selig, that is. Despite the fact that his defense is worse than Adam Dunn’s. Not that I’m going to be critical. Selig can be something of a buffoon who tends to bungle the high-profile stuff, but he has also presided over a very bountiful few years for Major League Baseball. It’s quick and easy […]

For those of you who don’t scroll down much, you may not have seen that I had a rare Sunday post yesterday. Subject: Rick Reilly’s story about a guy who crashed the Phillies’ World Series celebration. While I devoted most of the post to the notion that, if you look like you belong, you can […]

Chris Jaffe had the 50 best closer songs last week. This week: Geoff Young has the 71 worst. One quibble: Geoff includes “If you Leave” by OMD. I’ll grant him that it’s not exactly intimidating, but a San Diego guy like Young should know that OMD singer Andy McCluskey married himself a Coronado girl and […]