Archive for General

Sorry things have been quiet the past couple of days. I was home with kids yesterday, and today I’m busy preparing for an appellate argument scheduled for tomorrow morning. Breaks from those activities — and almost all of the time that stretched into the wee wee hours of last night — consisted of me frantically […]

Part one of two deals with pitchers. Good ones, bad ones, lucky ones, unlucky ones.

Phillies 5, Rockies 4: Wow, what a game! Colorado scores three times in the bottom of the eighth, only to have Philly do the same in the top of the ninth. The most interesting thing about this, I think, is that home field advantage, such as it was, actually hurt the Rockies, with the snow-out […]

Not Moneyball, according to MTV Movies blogger Larry Carroll: “Yeah, I have another idea for a baseball movie that actually doesn’t have any baseball in it,” the “Informant!” filmmaker revealed to us recently and more than a bit cryptically. “I am going to see MLB when I’m in New York to talk to them about […]

An article by Craig Calcaterra is like a fart. It stinks, but it will soon go away! You guys often ask me how I put up with the NBC commenters. I have no idea what you mean. This stuff is GOLD!

Things I wrote while wondering why Greg Maddux never won a Nobel Peace Prize: Leave Matt Holliday alone, will ya? Admission: that post is basically a rehash of this morning’s ATH, so if you read it already you can probably move along. Don’t look at me like that. Even great programs like “The Simpsons,” “Lost” […]

Dodgers 3, Cardinals 2: Look, I know all you Cardinals fans want to kill Matt Holliday right now, but (a) your guys may not have made the postseason without him; (b) he did hit a homer in the game; and (c) Ryan Franklin still had to walk Casey Blake, give up a single to Ronnie […]

The little rectangle on the right side of the screen bugs me. No, it’s not a crime against humanity, but I tend to have a pretty good ability to remember how a sequence of pitches has gone — at least to remember enough to make the whole batter-pitcher confrontation meaningful for me — so I […]

New York, Los Angeles and Philly won yesterday. FOX and TBS smile . . . CSI: Buster Olney. This all seems like great science, but none of the following factors are included in the analysis: (a) liquor before beer, never fear; (b) hair of the dog; or (c) the healing and sobering power of Sausage […]

Phillies 5, Rockies 1: Man, when Cliff Lee is on he’s on, isn’t he (CG, 6 H, 1 ER, 5K)? Nice of him to spare Charlie Manuel the need to fret over his bullpen for a day. Every Phillie had a hit, Lee included. Jayson Werth said the sun and wind made it “the toughest […]