In light of a few high profile player-ump confrontations this year you’d think that we’re reaching some sort of boiling point in white-gray-blue relations, but that’s simply not the case: From 2002 to 2005, at least 100 ballplayers per season were tossed out of games by umpires. After a slight decrease the past three years, […]

I realize that I’ve totally whiffed on the Bobby Cox story. It just fell through the cracks inasmuch as I was taken away from my computer yesterday afternoon and by the time I got to NBC this morning someone else had already hit it up. This being the Internet, it now kind of feels like […]

How it’s possible to miss four days of work yet have seven days worth of work to makeup is beyond me, but I’ll be damned if that’s not what I’m facing at the moment. Oh well, it’s isn’t going anywhere, so I’ll try to get to at least some new stuff this afternoon. In the […]

Brewers 3, Cubs 2: Prince Fielder pads his stats with a homer and a couple of RBI. It’s easy to forget in all of the Cub-drama that Chicago is actually a few games ahead of Milwaukee in the standings. Astros 3, Cardinals 0: And look! The Cubs are technically still alive! If St. Louis just […]

So I stayed in Calistoga, California for a couple of nights during my trip. Nice town. It’s also where Tom Seaver lives. Note: don’t go telling shopkeepers in Calistoga that you’re looking for Tom Seaver. They tend not to take kindly to out of towners stalking the locals. Anyway: The Mets clean la casa Bobby […]

Flew in from San Francisco B.O.A.C., didn’t get to bed Monday night. That means I was completely out of it by, oh, 8PM last night and didn’t get to ATH as usual. Here’s the express edition, however: Rockies 11, Padres 10: It’s long been obvious that the Rockies are charmed this year, but when they […]

The missus and I are going to San Francisco/Napa for a few days. There’s supposedly a wedding we’re to attend, but this is our first real trip anywhere without the kids, so it could be a lead pencil symposium and I’d be happy. I really need a few days off, and the Bay Area does […]

Stuff I wrote while realizing that my rant yesterday is going to result in like 10 people getting me the Bob Dylan Christmas album as a gift this year: Aaron Crow signs. Thank God he avoided that train wreck of an organization in Washington and got more money to boot. What? He signed with the […]

Royals 9, Tigers 2: Five shutout innings by Greinke lowers his ERA to 2.14. No starter has been that low to finish the season since Clemens in 2005. No non-jackass starter has had one that low since Pedro in 2000. Someone please explain to me again the basis for not giving this man the Cy […]

I’m a bigger Bob Dylan fan than anyone you know. I own everything. I enjoy just about all of it. I have long since forgiven Dylan for any of his many musical trespasses over the years, and have even embraced most of them like the big Bob Dylan whore that I am. In the past […]