Archive for General

Today ShysterBall celebrates the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the 1994-95 strike! Sure, it was terrible, but at least we didn’t get a 72-win team winning the AL West! In other news: Hey, you and Tommy LaSorda? I hate Tommy Lasorda. The Tigers’ arms are going to be stretched come this postseason, though there’s […]

Red Sox 7, Tigers 5: You’ve probably seen the Youkilis-Porcello fracas, but here’s video of it from a slightly different angle which makes Youkilis seem like even more of the bad guy here. Of course his ejection was the best thing to happen to the Sox last night, as he was replaced by pinch-runner Mike […]

I may write about stuff that baseball people screw up, but reporters write about it when I lose cases too, so it’s all good. Always be wary when someone proposes a simple solution to a complex problems. Especially when that someone is kind of an idiot. Gary Sheffield thinks that he’s trade bait and that […]

Marlins 8, Astros 6: Houston put a late scare into the fish, but it was all for naught. Florida wins its fourth in a row, and now sit 3.5 behind Philly. As Pinto notes, having guys getting on base in front of Hanley Ramirez is a good, good thing for the Marlins. Blue Jays 5, […]

Randy Wolf and Joe Saunders highlight our attempt to catch up with the season’s pitching award leaders.

Things to think about the next time you complain about your 20 minute flight delay. Things I wrote about while complaining about my colleague who was late with the Monday morning donuts: Jeff Francoeur’s PR team made the trip to New York with him. I’m not sure of a lot of things in this world, […]

Part of me wonders if I’ll ever write a post like this one from Andrew Sullivan. Then I realize that, by definition, it’s easier to blog about baseball than politics because, while I feel very strongly about the issues in the game, neither those issues or my writing about them is going to impact anyone’s […]

Yankees 5, Red Sox 2: Brutal weekend for Boston. Dropping four straight to the Yankees is bad enough, but doing it on the heels of dropping two to the Rays is something of a tone-setter. Especially considering how ugly a series this was for them: Thursday and Saturday were pathetic. Friday was a stomach punch. […]

Picking up Carl Pavano is defensible, but this was not: To make room for Pavano, knuckleballing reliever R.A. Dickey was optioned to Triple-A. This is a dark, dark day.

A couple of people pinged me about that “I don’t believe in God” comment in the previous post. Look, I’m not going to go into all of my reasons in this space because it’s simply not appropriate, but let me say this much: no all-loving, all-powerful being creates a world in which John Hughes drops […]