Archive for General

Cliff Lee’s weird season keeps rolling while some Single-A guys you’ve never heard of had the wildest day you’ll ever hear about.

Sorry for the slow afternoon, but the day job is kicking my butt today. As such, I may not have anything new this afternoon. In the meantime, know that this morning’s Bucky Dent mystery has been solved. The cards, it seems, were sent by Josh Wilker’s publisher. Wilker, as you all know, is the proprietor […]

I was interviewed by Russ Smith over at Splice Today, and the results are up here. Among the covered topics: the future of the Orioles, the future of the Braves, the future of PED scandals, Eric Wedge’s lack of a future, and whether, if forced to choose, I’d rather watch a national FOX broadcast or […]

Bucky Dent is nice, but I was really hoping for a Joe Shlabotnik . .. Contrary to popular belief, Matt Wieters is not omnipotent. Indeed, he’s not even monopotent these days. Milton Bradley may cause a lot of problems, but trying to draw walks doesn’t seem like it should be listed as one of them. […]

Reds 8, Indians 1: It was Brandon Phillips’ birthday and he beat up his old team to celebrate (3-5, 3 RBI). But he overplayed it: “It’s good to have a game like I did today, especially on my birthday and against the guys you used to play for. Today, I was like, ‘I’m going to […]

I’m going to spare everyone the big Michael Jackson post I was going to write because (a) it represented mission creep even for me; and (b) it wasn’t coming together all that well. Jonah has a good one up if you’re curious. I’ll just say this: Michael Jackson and his handlers probably spent most of […]

Does this give me license to go off topic and dive into a Posnanskian-length Michael Jackson essay when I get some time later today? The year was 1976. Farrah Fawcett had the poster that was on walls everywhere. Michael Jackson was fronting “The Jacksons” — as the band started off on its own a year […]

In the wake of Michael Jackson’s passing, all of the players in yesterday’s games wore one glove in his memory. . . Yankees 11, Braves 7: Buster Olney went all Jerod Morris on A-Rod yesterday (query: does the fact that Rodriguez tested positive for steroids six years ago, and a year before the institution of […]

A breakdown of the Cardinals starter’s epic ground ball extravaganza on Tuesday against the Mets.

Singer songwriter Todd Snider was on NPR last night, and though I always kind of liked him before, I really, really, like him now. Here he is talking about a song on his new record: “America’s Favorite Pastime” is a song for the unprepared. It was inspired by the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player Doc Ellis, […]