AmLaw Daily is talking about that MLB-Topps baseball card deal from last week and raises the notion that Upper Deck could file an antitrust suit. Countering that is the assertion in the article that “In 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court established a common-law exemption for Major League Baseball in cases involving antitrust laws, a decision […]

Jermaine Jackson got himself a souvenir yesterday: In the bottom of the second inning, Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal lifted a foul ball toward the area where Jackson was sitting, and Jackson didn’t hesitate. Jermaine, a right-hander wearing a Manny Ramirez No. 99 jersey, made a nifty backhanded grab and celebrated the snatching of the souvenir. […]

Steroids and libel suits go together like liver and onions: really well actually, but they still leave a bad taste in your mouth: The publisher and authors of a book about steroid use in major league baseball were sued today by a Texas man who says they falsely claimed he was “pushing” steroids to professional […]

Things to think about the next time you complain about your 20 minute flight delay. Things I wrote about while complaining about my colleague who was late with the Monday morning donuts: Jeff Francoeur’s PR team made the trip to New York with him. I’m not sure of a lot of things in this world, […]

Part of me wonders if I’ll ever write a post like this one from Andrew Sullivan. Then I realize that, by definition, it’s easier to blog about baseball than politics because, while I feel very strongly about the issues in the game, neither those issues or my writing about them is going to impact anyone’s […]

After decades of slamming the Chicago Tribune in particular, and several months of loudly proclaiming that newspapers are dead, Jay Mariotti is supposedly going to be doing a weekly column for the Tribune as of September 1st. Which is fine, because I am capable of ignoring Mariotti across multiple platforms. I just wonder if, in […]

Yankees 5, Red Sox 2: Brutal weekend for Boston. Dropping four straight to the Yankees is bad enough, but doing it on the heels of dropping two to the Rays is something of a tone-setter. Especially considering how ugly a series this was for them: Thursday and Saturday were pathetic. Friday was a stomach punch. […]

This post originally appeared on NBC’s Circling the Bases on July 31, 2009. However, due to a recent platform changeover at NBC, it can be really hard to find in the archives (here is a link to where it currently resides, though that might change). I’m now reposting it in its entirety, because with the […]

Jason from IIATMS just told me that he heard on XM radio that John Smoltz is en route to Atlanta today “for personal reasons.” One wonders if we’re going to have a retirement announcement or something like that shortly. Insta-take on zero information: if he retires rather than allows the Sox to DFA him, he […]

It’s sometimes helpful to remember, as we apply our very adult judgments and our very adult values to the game of baseball, that it’s essentially being played by people who are about as mature as my four year-old son: Mike Sweeney screamed from the Seattle Mariners training room Thursday, issuing what amounted to an all-points-bulletin. […]