The biggest danger of the opinion writing business is the risk of tying oneself up in logical and rhetorical knots in order to justify things you wrote days, weeks, or months ago when events in real time render those opinions, well, not entirely correct. Here’s some evidence of that: Writing about Jonah Lehrer’s book on […]

In the wake of Neyer’s correction of RJ Anderson yesterday, Tangotiger makes the point that every blog-hater misses: Friend of The Book RJ Anderson made a post at 6AM this morning about Longoria probably having the best rookie season for 3B of all time. Less than 2 hours later, Repoz linked to it, where people […]

Jason at IIATMS has a major post up this morning about how the baseball press missed the steroids story. There are many good points there, and the most comprehensive cataloging of reporter mea culpas on how they missed the story that I’ve seen to date. At the moment, however, it is this passage that has […]

It’s a press release, sure, but it’s one that made me wish I had MLB Network: On Monday, March 2 at 9:00 p.m. ET, MLB Network will debut the first-ever original film from MLB Productions, We Are Young: A Baseball Family, the story of MLB players and brothers Dmitri and Delmon Young, who overcame personal […]

I’m an occasional source for Newsday writer John Jeansonne, so I take an occasional, ego-driven interest in what goes on at that paper. What goes on now? Probably the end of my reading of Newsday: Cablevision Systems Corp plans to charge online readers of its Newsday newspaper, a move that would make it one of […]

As of Friday, Tracy Ringolsby will drive 100 miles down from his Wyoming ranch and cover the Rockies for food.

Tim McCarver has won a legal victory against the investment advisor he claims fleeced him: Memphis native and sports broadcaster Tim McCarver has been awarded $100,000 in compensatory damages as a result of the arbitration claim he filed over losses from Morgan Keegan & Co. mutual fund investments. The award was much smaller than the […]

Many people have thrown up their hands in disgust with all of the steroids news lately, and I understand that. It’s not baseball, for one thing. It’s also so unseemly and tabloidy that it’s easy to get fed up with it all in short order. But it is news and it is relevant, so simply […]

Good news! Newsday’s Wallace Matthews — a truly awful columnist if ever there was one — has announced that he is no longer going to follow or write about baseball: In the week since I spoke with Bud Selig, I have thought long and hard about what the Omissioner can do to right the dreadful […]

Baltimore Sun baseball writer Peter Schmuck has often been something of a polarizing figure among statheads and blogger-types, but I have usually enjoyed his work and, for some reason, give him a pass when I wouldn’t give other writers one for the same content. Don’t ask me why. Maybe it’s because his self-deprecating shtick seems […]