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Angels 5, Red Sox 4: The stories today will all be about David Ortiz’s 0-7, 12 LOB performance. Which they probably should be. Pedroia was on base in front of him five times alone. Give the man a day off. Move him down in the order. Something. As for Anaheim, Ervin Santana made his season […]

This week is turning out to be a real bummer on the work front, so apologies for the lighter content. There will certainly be more stuff to come today, and next week things should be back to normal, but it will still be a little bit sluggish today and tomorrow. In the meantime: The umpire […]

Lots of games got delayed last night due to rain causing them to end after my usual bedtime. As such, there wasn’t a chance that I was going to be able to be as comprehensive with these recaps as I usually am, seeing as though I’m writing way more of them this morning than I […]

Fanno gets a dog!

Sorry about the day off yesterday. I can assure you, what I was doing was nowhere near as fun as talkin’ baseball: The Yankees truly don’t get it. Mike Hargrove for Indians’ manager! Jose Offerman destroyed a man’s career. Was Dontrelle Willis really sick? Daniel Murphy may be moved to first base. This is not […]

Phillies 5, Dodgers 3: Jason Werth stole home in the seventh inning and tied a team record with four steals in one game, but since he’s not Dustin Pedroia, no one will probably make a big deal out of it. In other out-of-the-spotlight news, the AP game story’s “game notes” said that “Actress Jennifer Love […]

I was hit with a legal emergency the moment I got into the office this morning, so unfortunately, it doesn’t look like I’ll have any posts up this morning, and possibly for the rest of the day. I did get two posts up over at NBC, however, so if you’re seriously jonesin’, those can help […]

Zack Greinke: Good, unlucky

If they’re only going to throw four games up at us on a perfectly wonderful May evening, we’re going to have to seriously investigate expansion . . . Braves 8, Mets 3: As a Braves fan, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Atlanta break things open in the seventh inning. As a baseball fan, seeing Johan Santana […]

On April 30, 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appeared at the World’s Fair, stood in front of NBC’s cameras, and became the first U.S. president to appear on television. Two weeks later, Bill Cosby was given a pilot, and “Law & Order” was launched two weeks after that. True story. Joba turns the other cheek […]