The NBC folks asked if I’d put it up over there, so anyone interested in what I think about all of this, check it out here. Short version: it’s not all that dissimilar from what I thought when A-Rod was outed as a ‘roider back in February.

So, whaddaya know? Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended 50 games starting today, The Times has learned. The test result and suspension is expected to be announced later today. The Dodgers informed triple-A outfielder Xavier Paul this morning that he was being promoted to Los Angeles . . . […]

Things that seemed important to me before the Manny news hit the wire: Paul Janish > Bronson Arroyo. Carl Crawford: Fast + Smart. Bud Selig + visionary statements = scary. One luxury car / two players = chaos. Milton Bradley = insanity squared. Finally,

Am I wrong for thinking that this is a pretty cool idea?

Mets 1, Phillies 0: My God, how the Mets go out of their way not to help their best player win games. Two hits to back him up, and I’m guessing that Carlos Delgado had to be begged to come in from third on that throwing error. Two of Santana’s four wins this season are […]

For all of the things I’ve written, reading the A-Rod book is not without its enjoyable moments. I may later assemble some random ones in a post, but I want to share this one while it’s fresh. From the field notes of Mariners’ scout Roger Jongewaard after surveying Alex Rodriguez, high school senior: Premium prospect […]

Pete Toms sends along a story about a Princeton pitcher poised to go in the second or third round of the draft. He’s a business student, and there’s a discussion about his choices: Hale, a 21-year-old junior from Marietta, Georgia, majoring in operations research and financial engineering, said he’s already decided that he’d rather play […]

A little over 48 hours since the book’s release, and people are starting to pick the nits. I’m not sure I care about the “was he in Milwaukee or was he in Detroit” kind of nits that hell of a lot, but if there are tons and tons of them, it suggests that the commercial […]

Via Whitlock, who continues to lay waste to Selena Roberts, comes a quote from Roberts herself from last night’s Jim Rome show which pretty much explains why I’ve been writing what I’ve been writing since last Thursday: “You give people a litmus test, Jim . . . You say to them, you go back to […]

My NBC colleague Mike Celizic on Zack Greinke, in a column entitled “Finally, baseball gives us as hero to admire“: Finally, baseball has a fresh young superstar nobody can throw so much as a pebble at, a kid who is the perfect antidote for Manny B. Manny and A-Fraud and everything else that drives you […]