Archive for General

What would Batman be without The Joker? Luke without Vader? The Smurfs without Gargamel? The answers are (a) still really disturbed; (b) still whiny and annoying; and (c) still strange, three apple-tall blue things that kind of creep me out. The point remains, however, that a good enemy always makes things more interesting. And for […]

Conversation I had with a coworker yesterday: Him: So, who are the Braves going to draft? Me: No idea. Him: [mildly mocking me] Really? And you call yourself a fan? I quickly changed the subject. I’m surrounded by football fans in central Ohio who simply don’t understand baseball. I think I’m going to email Rob’s […]

Tigers 7, White Sox 6: A bullpen collapse in the ninth inning for the Tigers transformed a relatively easy win into an extra innings salvage job, but Detroit will take it. OK, maybe “easy” isn’t the right word, because this game featured yet another lackluster Dontrelle Willis start. Disastrous? No, but I don’t know that […]

There have been gay baseball players in the past, there are almost certainly gay baseball players today, and there will no doubt be gay baseball players in the future. Jeff Pearlman is eager for one of them to come of the closet. I don’t disagree with his general rationale. A lot of good could be […]

It’s been a a better blogging day than yesterday. I credit the 75 pages of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I read before I went to bed last night. It always inspires: The Astros are gouging their fans. More musings on what a thoughtfully renovated Tiger Stadium could have meant. Scouting is a tough […]

Tigers 5, White Sox 4: After the game, Ozzie Guillen was mad at his poor-performing team and said this: “If this was the 1980s, [none] of these guys would be in the big leagues right now, because if you hit .210-.230 and you can’t execute, I don’t think you should be out here.” I was […]

We survey the season leaders in the pitching categories this week.

Either there wasn’t much news this morning or else I couldn’t find it. Or I had a case of the Mondays. Whatever the case, it was sluggish going over at the peacock today: I’m not the only one skeptical of Dontrelle Willis’ anxiety diagnosis. Is Big Papi poised to break out? Warning: moron (me) citing […]

This is either (a) some some sort of strange world record attempt or (b) your average Yankees-Red Sox playoff game on FOX.

Diamondbacks 9, Padres 6: Whenever you see a game this long — 18 innings in case you missed it — there are always some fun stat lines that shake out. An 0-6 (Giles); a 1-8 with five strikeouts (Headley). Then there’s the “so long, suckers” line, which belongs to David Eckstein. Herr Scrappy sits on […]