If anyone in baseball was gonna get it, you kind of had to figure that it would have been Mike Hampton, but instead it’s Padilla: Texas Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla tested positive for swine flu, though his symptoms are subsiding and he’s expected to make his next start. Padilla was scratched from his start Wednesday […]

I love the readers at NBC. I really do! And despite my worst fears going in, I’d say 99.9% of them are reasonable people. But then there’s that .1% . . . Here’s a comment that came in response to my saying — with my tongue very obviously in my cheek — that it would […]

Kind of a lost day for me as the legal job sapped the afternoon away, but let’s close on an amusing note, shall we? For weeks now, Delaware’s sports betting, under the umbrella of the state lottery, has received major criticism. The NFL has been at the reigns of the opposition, and now the verbal […]

I like organ music. I like the Braves. Ergo, I like articles about organ music at Braves games: For the past four years, the Atlanta Braves had used recorded organ music for games at Turner Field, but it wasn’t the same. Fans heard the familiar, traditional sound of an organ, but without a living, breathing, […]

So my wife — who is not a baseball fan by any stretch of the imagination — goes to the Columbus Clippers-Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees game last night. It was a work function and the beer was free. You know how that goes. Anyway, when she came downstairs this morning I asked her how it went. […]

White Sox 5, Rays 0: Nice game for Josh Fields (1-4, grand slam). Scott Kazmir’s nightmare season continues. Rumors have him on the trading block to free up some salary for the Rays to get Lee or someone. What a difference a year makes. Wait, why are you looking at me like that? Did something […]

I feel like I’m trampling on David Pinto’s in-game-update turf, but Mark Buehrle is perfect through seven innings against the Rays. UPDATE: Perfect through eight . . . UPDATE: And he did it!! I didn’t see it, but I was told he was saved by a spectacular catch by DeWayne Wise in center off the […]

Maury lists ten reasons why you don’t see ballplayers shilling for as many companies as you do football or basketball players. This one is pretty interesting: Baseball can rightfully say that it has the most player diversity starting in games than any other US pro sports league. Some of MLB’s biggest stars are Latinos or […]

The Cancer Project is a non-profit dedicated to cancer prevention, nutrition education, research, and buzzkills: A national vegan advocacy organization Wednesday filed a class-action lawsuit in New Jersey Superior Court against five hot dog manufacturers, including ConAgra Foods Inc., asking that they be ordered to attach warning labels to their packaging. The Cancer Project, based […]

Won’t someone please tell Dodgers fans how angry and betrayed they’re supposed to feel about Manny Ramirez? Note: link goes to shaky and kind of loud video of fans goin’ kind of crazy. (Thanks to Hollywood Joe for the link. Wait — I once fought a pimp named Hollywood Joe following a disagreement related to […]