Archive for General

Jeff handicaps the Division II and III championships.

Stuff I spewed this morning: Offense is up this year. What’s to blame? Cito Gaston is a hands-off kind of guy, and it’s working just fine. It’s going to be really funny later this summer when the Yankees are running away with the East and, rather than crediting the return of A-Rod, the resurgence of […]

Tigers 4, Rangers 0: Dontrelle Willis goes six and a third, shutting out a good Rangers team on one hit while striking out five. You can’t help but hope that this means D-Train is back on the tracks to stay, because baseball is more fun with him in it. Royals 6, Indians 5: Whoa. The […]

I know I’ve been doing this a lot lately but I swear, on the lives of my children, that this will be the last day I punt for a while. But punt I must. This morning my daughter is graduating from preschool and I simply wouldn’t miss that, even if it is weird that schools […]

Rockies 5, Braves 1: The word “outdueled” should not appear within 50 yards of Jason Marquis, but there it is in the AP writeup. Even when he pitches well he sort of just bulls his way through the game, with none of the grace implied by a word like “dueled.” As for the Braves, Mac […]

Josh Fields needs to get it in gear while Raul Ibanez is out of his mind.

Fun NBC fact: Nicholas Colasanto, the guy who played the character Coach on “Cheers,” was also a television director. He did episodes of “Ironsides,” “Columbo,” and “The Misadventures of Sherriff Lobo.” He did a couple episodes of “Bonanza” too. The more you know . . . I expanded on yesterday’s item about the statistical evidence […]

Rays 7, Indians 5: As you probably read yesterday, Joe Maddon screwed up the lineup card by listing two third basemen and no DH, thereby causing the pitcher to have to bat because, hey, rules are rules. Even worse: Sonnanstine had to bat third. Even worse, for the Indians anyway: he went 1-3 with a […]

It’s Chris’ third annual comparison of order processing charges and convenience fees for all MLB teams.

A comment I received to one of my NBC posts this morning: Craig, I understand that you are an MSNBC employee, but this isn’t a “News Event” piece. It’s an “Opinion” piece. An opinion I largely share, incidentally, but listing this as news instead of opinion seems to be ethically murky, particularly by a professional. […]