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From the strange mind of Richard Dansky: Tony La Russa has the same sort of unholy fascination with Nick Stavinoha that your average Lovecraft protagonist does with the Necronomicon. No good can come of it, there’s a lot of consonants involved, and in the end, everyone’s reduced to a sort of mindless gibbering.

Yankees 6, Rays 2: Via Facebook, I leaned that Jason from IIATMS and I made the almost simultaneous observation about Joba last night: that he clearly watched Mark Buehrle pitch last week and decided that he was going to be a fast worker too. He was pretty clunky looking at such a pace, but you […]

Sorry for the silence over here. Kind of a crazy day, as I pinch hit for the travelling Aaron Gleeman over at CTB. I had figured it would be two or three sleepy posts, but then Lee gets traded, the Pirates and Mariners trade a good chunk of their junk back and forth, and J.P. […]

All of the cool kids are on their way to the SABR convention in D.C., so I’m doing a little extra duty over at the Blue Network this morning: Vin Scully, legend; Bill Plaschke, idiot. Dustin Pedroia will tell you: length doesn’t matter. Nats Park gets more expensive. Dice-K is starting to get the beatdown […]

Padres 3, Reds 2: If the recaps suffer a bit today it’s because I was at a bar saying goodbye to a good friend last night (a friend longtime ShysterBall readers will remember, actually). Mark and I used to work at the same law firm together, and once I left at the end of last […]

Here’s a topic that will interest all the little shysterlings among you: It’s surprising how often America’s national pastime, baseball, finds itself snugly entrenched with the country’s second-favorite hobby, litigation. Over the years a number of baseball incidents and disputes have found their way into courtrooms. Here are five examples . . . . . […]

In case you don’t read the comments that often, there’s a fantastic Star Wars conversation happening in “And That Happened.” I’m preoccupied with the OSHA violations on the Death Star, Lar worries about whether C-3PO was unfair to R2 when he left him after the escape pod crash-landed, and everyone wants to know whether or […]

Rested and ready to dive headlong into the second half, we look at Mr. Perfection and a new Hall of Famer who decided it was time to tell young kids that it’s important to remember to ground out to the second baseman.

A very grand-slammy day around the Majors . . . Nationals 14, Brewers 6: Josh Willingham with two grand slams and eight RBI. I think that’s more production than his trade counterpart Emilio Bonifacio has had all season. Mets 7, Rockies 3: An eighth inning pinch hit grand slam by Fernando Tatis puts a happy […]

A day on which saying that Rickey Henderson came off as humble is probably only the third most controversial thing I said: All hail Henderson! All do your best to accept Rice! Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame: wanna bet the over/under on the number of comments this post will bring? Wait, that’s what […]