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For reasons that aren’t important, I spent a little time counting last night, and found that since I began this blog, I’ve written, 2,325 posts at the old Blogspot site, 1,184 posts on THT (including this one), and 318 posts on the NBC site. I guess I’m good and warmed up now, so it’s probably […]

Braves 7, Reds 0: Tommy Hanson shuts out the Reds over six innings. Not that he was brilliant or anything. He threw a lot of pitches, got into jams and all of the kind of stuff you see young kids do. But it’s all good, because even when he’s been getting lit up like a […]

I’d just like to remind everyone once again that there is quite a fascinating, high-level, and mature conversation going on in the Geoff Baker Redux thread. Fascinating because Geoff Baker has been showing up for a couple of days and, to his enormous credit given what I’ve written in the past week or so, taking […]

Things I wrote while wondering how on Earth a basketball arena could cost nearly half a billion dollars. Titanium floors instead of parquet? Title banners woven from saffron? Jose Canseco says he’s going to sue Major League Baseball. Good luck with that. The Dodgers and Sox to soon get Manny and Smoltz back. Respectively, that […]

Orioles 6, Mets 4: Matt Wieters hits the first of what the prophecies have foretold will be a thousand career home runs, each more majestic than the last. The real story was the middle of the O’s order — Markakis, Huff and Mora — who combined to go 8 for 11 with four RBI. Blue […]

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Things I wrote while struggling to come up with any ballplayer who, if implicated as a PED user, would truly surprise me. Maddux, maybe. Bob Horner. Lolich. Sammy Sosa: the leaking is way worse than the ‘roiding. A roundup of Sosa opinion in the greater blogosphere. Rizzo says that Manny Acta is the Nats’ “current” […]

Red Sox 8, Marlins 2: David Ortiz continues to heat up, adding a homer and a two-run single to his increasingly improving statline. Tim Wakefield was strong too. From the game story: Wakefield is now two starts and five home wins behind Roger Clemens for the most in Red Sox history in each category. I […]

I post a lot for a quasi-amateur blogger, but there are people out there who are really busting their tails. The next time you think you’re too tired to do something, you think of that woman. Anyway: Pudge Rodriguez is a Hall of Famer no matter what Jose Canseco or you or anyone else says. […]

Things a borderline obsessive box score reader does on a night, and following morning, when there are hardly any box scores to read: 1. Mope. 2. Wander around the house, open random book, read a page or two, then close book. 3. Eat mint chocolate chip ice cream right out of carton (note: this sometimes […]