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Just reading some cards from the suggestion box . . . “You suck” “You suck” “Howard Stern rules” “If you can read this you are a dork” “Coupon for one free kiss from Treder if you are a girl” “We need more complaint cards” “Coupon for one free kiss from Treder if you are a […]

My boy turned four yesterday and started the proceedings off by waking up at 6 A.M., eating two bowls of Cocoa Puffs and then demanding presents, cake and the like for the next 15 hours. If the recaps are less than stellar today, it’s because I’m whupped. Braves 7, Mets 1: Correlation is not the […]

At the risk of stirring up crap again, I link to Dave Zirin, who this week opines on relative dearth of blacks in baseball. After quoting some guys who have their opinions (e.g. basketball and football are more exciting, baseball isn’t hip, kids have more options), Zirin gets to the nut of why he thinks […]

Via Pinto, The Soxaholix gets all Thomas Stearns Eliot on us. This is he best juxtiposition of Modernism and baseball since Ferlinghetti sat in the stands at Candlestick Park reading Ezra Pound. And screw Eliot, by the way. “April is the cruellest month?” That’s when opening day is! Eliot was born in St. Louis! I […]

Happy to be back today, I have to say. Court yesterday was kind of difficult in that both the judge and my opposing counsel kept asking me questions for which I didn’t have any answers. Well, good ones anyway. I hate it when that happens. I think I still have a pretty good chance of […]

Jason is looking for a co-blogger. Details here. Even if you’re not interested, you’ll definitely want to read the section in which he discusses the compensation structure.

Fourteen teams get a day off after they just had three days off. That’s like calling in sick the day after Memorial Day. Phillies 4, Marlins 0: Man, old people love Florida. Moyer: 7 IP, 1 H 0 ER; Ibanez: 2-4, 2 HR 3 RBI. Manuel: hit the early bird special before the game, found […]

Hey all — the day job is taking me out of town for most of the day today. Cincinnati if you must know, for an oral argument. I can’t tell you exactly what it’s about, but suffice it to say that no one will accept my idea of a benevolent dictatorship run by someone like […]

Welcome to one of the slowest days in baseball. Everyone who makes news and everyone who writes news is either on a plane or waiting to takeoff. Amazingly, I found some stuff to blog about this morning: Pedro to Philly. I predict that the hype of this move will outweigh the competitive impact of this […]

Unlucky starters are featured as we catch up with the pitching awards.