Archive for General

Baseball is doing right by Lou Gehrig and everyone else with the disease that bears his name: On July 4, the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s immortal “luckiest man on the face of the earth” speech, Major League Baseball will help fight the disease that bears the name of its doomed hero. In 15 home […]

Longtime ShysterBall readers know that I take hot dogs very seriously. I’m not a snob about them — I’m cool with whatever is popular in whatever region I happen to be in — but I am certainly someone who expects others to honor and respect hot dog culture for the wonderful thing that it is. […]

DanUpBaby from Viva El Birdos is in the best shape of his life, has been working on his timing, and is trying something new.

This list of the top 10 sports mascots is a bunch of applesauce for two reasons: (1) The Phillie Phanatic is way better than Mr. Met; and (2) Brutus Buckeye was totally robbed. And really, does anyone really like that green guy the Red Sox use? (thanks to Pete Toms for the link)

I’m not writing jack today, but these guys are: In what constitutes my greatest oversight in quite a while, I forgot to include Wezen-Ball in the first two installments of the ShysterBlog neighborhood. Lar does good work over there, uncovering many a priceless historical gem such as prospect previews from a couple of dozen years […]

From overrated college pitcher to top-50 prospect: How he did it and the impact his success will have on his team’s future…

The Yankees are sanitizing their new home with some sort of specialized disinfectant coating in order to prevent staph infections. Infectious disease expert Paul Sax, M.D. wonders if they’d be better off simply scrubbing the place down with some Comet. Then again, these are the Yankees, so if they’re going to solve a problem, you […]

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Ted Berg should consider himself extremely flattered by Chris Jaffe’s offering this week.

Jason at IIATMS continues his Commish for a Day series, and this time he asks the opinion of a real piece of work.

Because I have some other stuff to do that, you know, might help me feed my family and stuff, we’re looking at a truncated posting schedule today. If this is troubling to you and you happen to own a commercial media company willing to pay a handsome sum for virtually unlimited and uninterrupted blogging, please […]