I guess I’m not the only baseball writer who struggles to fit a day job in with the writing: Buster Olney (1:31 PM) Hey, guys — I’ve got a call I have to take, I’ll be back in five. Buster Olney (1:43 PM) Sorry, guys… I had to take that call. Back to the chat…

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know who Jack Marshall is. Lawyer, Red Sox fan, professional ethicist anti-steroid crusader and — and I mean this in the nicest way possible, Jack — outrageous pain in the neck. Pain in the neck because he routinely disturbs perfectly comfortable conventional wisdom […]

I made it all the way up to the 16th floor this morning without the elevator stopping at any lower floors. When I got to my office: champagne celebration. Hey, if baseball teams can do it for the littlest things, I can too . . . I wonder what the odds of Brian Sabean not […]

Yankees 4, Red Sox 2: The Bombers clinch, win 100, guarantee home field, etc. Inevitable, but the exuberance looked a little less rote yesterday than I seem to remember it in years past. I think those who have been there a while have a new appreciation for making the post season after what happened last […]

. . . only happens to the Cubs.

“Empire Strikes Back” was on TV the other day. I came in right when Leia planted a wet one on Luke. Two possibilities: (1) either Lucas didn’t really have the whole story arc planned out in advance; or (2) Mackenzie Phillips was an uncredited script doctor on that flick . . . You’ve heard the […]

Mariners 5, Blue Jays 4: King Felix struck out 11 in eight innings to notch his 17th win. I was out of town and without a computer when people started up that “the Mariners can’t sign Felix so the Red Sox are gonna get him” talk a few days ago. You know what? That’s crazy. […]

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 […]