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Cardinals 12, Mets 8: Watching Oliver Perez, John Maine, Mike Pelfrey and, on this night, Livan Hernandez repeatedly stink up the joint after the awesomeness that is Johan Santana reminds me of a Superfriends episode in which Superman gets stuck having to save the world with just the Wonder Twins and Aquaman around. I mean, […]

Here’s a link to both the auido and a somewhat truncated text of an NPR story I heard yesterday concerning a new documentary about Luis Tiant called “The Lost Son of Havana.” The film tells the story of Tiant’s return to Cuba after 46 years, and it sounds pretty amazing: Tiant had been pitching for […]

In 1975, the NBC Friday night lineup was “Sanford and Son” at 8, “Chico and the Man” at 8:30, “Rockford Files” at 9, and “Police Woman at 10.” That’s outrageously solid, but check out what CBS was dropping at the same time: “Big Eddie,” “M*A*S*H,” “Hawaii Five-O,” and “Barnaby Jones.” What did people do back […]

Either THT or NBC needs to let me do something like this pretty soon: Travis Greene swears there was no beer involved when he came up with this idea of driving 15,000 miles to see 30 ballparks in 30 days. Sitting yesterday afternoon in the upper deck of PNC Park with Pedro Cunillera and Joey […]

Giants 1, Padres 0: Barry Zito was dominant. In other news, “A Beautiful Mind” has won Best Picture, the Queen Mother has died at the age of 101, and I’m under 30, childless, and have money. Hello, and welcome to the exciting year 2002! Cardinals 5, Mets 2: To my own two eyes it appears […]

Those of you who have been dying to put a nasally voice together with my bald, doughy visage and my obtuse written opinions are in for a treat. I’m going to be on BlogTalkRadio this afternoon at 1:35ish. It should be on the “GetSports” show which can be found at that link. If there’s a […]

I didn’t sleep so well last night, so I’m not quite as proud as a peacock today. Maybe proud as a bright cardinal. A pheasant at most: Miguel Cabrera isn’t going anywhere, but it might be fun to imagine he is. The Giants and the Diamondbacks are doing a good job marketing to ethnic minorities. […]

Indians 8, Royals 7: Sidney Ponson does pretty much what you’d expect him to, and that’s get blown up (3.1 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, 4 BB). And you can tell his attitude is just as good as ever. I watched this game, and as soon as he gave up the homer to Sizemore, he […]

When you blog, you do it from your mother’s basement. When you blog for NBC, you do it from Meredith Vieira’s basement. Wily Mo Pena signs with the Mets for the second time. Matt Cain needs to take matters into his own hands. The Boyer-Barten trade was a win-win thing, I think. Or not. Hell, […]

Tim Marchman has a list of them when it comes to baseball, including tall catchers, pinch runners, and managers in uniforms. (thanks to Pete Toms)