Our friend Pete Toms has a new regular feature over at Maury’s place: The Business of Sports Network is pleased to announce the first instalment of “Last Week in Bizball”, a weekly notebook column from staff reporter Pete Toms. Each week LWIB will compile opinion and reporting on topical baseball biz subjects from the preceding […]

The Pohlads are kicking in more money to the new joint. And the new joint is starting to sound pretty spiffy: The Pohlad family on Friday announced it has again increased its contribution toward the construction of the Minnesota Twins’ new ballpark to help pay for rooftop seating and various other design enhancements . . […]

Frank Murtaugh of the Memphis Flyer has a pretty sane take on today’s baseball world: Whether your take [on steroids] is outrage or apathy, though, a deep breath would be valuable as the 2009 baseball season nears its third month. The game is not dying, by any stretch. And there is reason to believe — […]

Fun NBC fact: Nicholas Colasanto, the guy who played the character Coach on “Cheers,” was also a television director. He did episodes of “Ironsides,” “Columbo,” and “The Misadventures of Sherriff Lobo.” He did a couple episodes of “Bonanza” too. The more you know . . . I expanded on yesterday’s item about the statistical evidence […]

Rays 7, Indians 5: As you probably read yesterday, Joe Maddon screwed up the lineup card by listing two third basemen and no DH, thereby causing the pitcher to have to bat because, hey, rules are rules. Even worse: Sonnanstine had to bat third. Even worse, for the Indians anyway: he went 1-3 with a […]

David Wells, in the booth, going on about how the key to pitchers going deeper into games today is conditioning. David Wells. Espousing the benefits of . . . conditioning. I think I’ve heard everything.

The New York Times, with some help from Tom Tango and Leverage Index, blows up the pitch-tipping allegations: If a tipping conspiracy were in place, one would expect that Rodriguez and rival middle infielders in games he played to have hit better in low-leverage situations than in high-leverage ones. Using a fairly loose definition of […]

The guy who wrote this: They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything […]

A comment I received to one of my NBC posts this morning: Craig, I understand that you are an MSNBC employee, but this isn’t a “News Event” piece. It’s an “Opinion” piece. An opinion I largely share, incidentally, but listing this as news instead of opinion seems to be ethically murky, particularly by a professional. […]

Just in case you were wondering if the feds had given up on Roger Clemens: Federal agents recently questioned a longtime associate of Jose Canseco and Roger Clemens as the Justice Department continues its investigation into whether the seven-time Cy Young Award winner lied when he testified under oath before a congressional committee that he […]