Things to read while you contemplate snow-outs in Chicago: The THT staff has its predictions up. I am the sole person who has the Rangers winning the division. No, I’m not sure why either. Just feels right. Chris Jaffe runs down times when baseball history and real life history coincided. Not as good as the […]

The guys at River Ave. Blues have a pledge drive going to benefit the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: Last year we decided to use the popularity of RAB for some good, creating a pledge drive dedicated to raising money for The Jorge Posada Foundation. We based the pledges on the number of strikeouts […]

A very long piece in Vanity Fair in which a writer, who comes right out and admits that he doesn’t care a lick for baseball, spends time in spring training trying to figure out if baseball will save America’s psyches from the economic doldrums or something. I found it frustrating for a hundred reasons, yet […]

Anyone who’s been around here any length of time is well-aware of my man crush on Josh Wilker and Cardboard Gods. I think he’s the best writer going in and around the world of baseball. That’s not a qualification; just an acknowledgment that he’s often not writing about baseball directly. Point is his stuff is […]

Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter, Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here . . . Braves 4, Phillies 1: Last year the Braves traveled to a division rival’s home park for the Sunday night opener and it didn’t go so well. Last night there were no complaints at […]

So, something new is going to happen on Monday. I’m going to start writing for NBCSports.com. I’m not alone: it will be a group blog — a small group — called “Circling the Bases.” I’ll be joining Rotoworld’s Aaron Gleeman and Matthew Pouliot. Given their experience, their readership and the amount and quality of their […]

I kind of went hog wild on the franchise devaluation thing around here last week. Some agreed, others felt I (and my pinch hitting friend Ethan) went a bit overboard. Well, let’s throw this bit of news into the pot and see what cooks up: Private equity legend Tom Hicks’ sports team holding company has […]

Ron Rollins was reading ShysterBall — and yelling at me for saying statheady things — way back in early 2007. Back then the only other regular readers were my mom and the people Googling pictures of Alyssa Milano. The Googlers soon realized that there was nothin’ good here, and even my mom eventually gave up, […]

Most likely owing to the start time, Catholics in Milawaukee are not quite as bent out of shape about the Brewers’ Good Friday home opener as those in Detroit, but in some ways their suggestions as to how to properly combine baseball and religion are even more extreme: Milwaukee’s soon-to-be-departing, but still current Catholic Archbishop […]

Apparently Cito Gaston is livid to find out that, according to Jeff Pearlman’s new book, Roger Clemens had him fired. Jeff Pearlman himself, however, says there’s a slight problem with that: There’s just one problem: I never wrote that. What my book says is that Clemens had a heavy hand in the hiring of Tim […]