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If you like a little Kabbalah with your baseball and your artwork, do I have the product for you! Click through for the print. From the artist’s statement: The uncanny similarity in shape between the baseball diamond and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, which has been pointed out before, is what sparked the idea for […]

This has nothing to do with baseball or even sports, but since a lot of sciencey types read THT, I thought it worth noting. From an AP story about the size of our galaxy: Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way […]

I’m a cat person, and as such, I don’t like to hear about anyone’s cat dying — not even George Bush’s. That said, it’s pretty spiffy that he named his cat after Ruben Sierra.

I sometimes write reviews of sports books for the New York Post. Today is one of those times. It’s for a book about the Super Bowl called The Billion Dollar Game. Though the word limit and the editorial requirement that I include a lot of quotes keeps me from, you know, really talking about the […]

Ending the year with a look back at 2008, with a big assist from a massive bout of insomnia.

I often think I’m a pretty obsessive blogger, but I got nothin’ on this guy.

CNBC’s Darren Rovell shares the Christmas e-card he (and presumably others) received from Major League Baseball. See it here. If they really wanted to create some marketing synergy they would have put LogoMan in one of them nifty earflap caps. (thanks to Pete Toms who, from what I understand, is really behind in getting his […]

Peter Schmuck has a good column today about an arbitration most of either forgot was going to happen or knew nothing about in the first place: The Sidney Ponson Case: Ponson was a highly talented young pitcher who came up through the Orioles’ system and seemed ticketed for stardom. He also was a wild child […]

For a while I was convinced that I had bored poor old Scott Simkus to death a couple of weeks ago when he interviewed me, but he’s back with another interview, and this time the subject is far more interesting: Josh Wilker of Cardboard Gods. In it, you can learn about Buster Olney hanging on […]