In the runup to its January 1st launch, I thought I’d plan ahead and find out on exactly which channel the MLB Network will be appearing among the many hundreds of offerings I receive from my cable provider, Insight Communications. After all, I’d hate to tune to channel 947 when the Larsen perfect game is […]

Will Leitch comments on Dock Ellis’ passing today, particularly his acid no-hitter. In so doing, we’re reminded that Deadspin lost a hell of a lot more than most people realize when he left: The world is a crazed, nonsensical place, mostly random, confused, chaotic, numbing. We search for reason wherever we can find it. And […]

Redleg Stats Blog (via BTF) has a pretty extraordinary transcript of Reds’ broadcaster Marty Brennaman unloading on a fan who dares to defend Adam Dunn: Caller: People here don’t realize that Pat Burrell and Adam Dunn don’t get paid $12 million to hit .300. They get paid to hit home runs; that’s it. Marty: No, […]

One of those writing projects I mentioned in the previous post is a book review I’m doing for the New York Post of Allen St. John’s book about the Super Bowl called The Billion Dollar Game. Really good book, by the way, and I’ll link the review here when it runs. But something in it […]

For those of you who haven’t seen this elsewhere, The MLB Network is kicking things off on January 1st with a rebroadcast of Don Larsen’s perfect game from the 1956 World Series. I was planning on watching that anyway, but this article contains two little details of which I wasn’t previously aware which make it […]

Note to the Wall Street Journal: It’s the “Rule 5 Draft,” not the “Rule V Draft.” The error is one that I’d normally let slide, but the article itself contains evidence that this was not some typo: The Rule V draft fits perfectly in the lexicon of baseball, where words like “non-tendered,” “infield fly,” and […]

I read stuff like this . . . Rafael Furcal might not be an Atlanta Brave just yet, much to the dismay of the Atlanta Braves. Because while certain people in the organization were confirming Tuesday that, yes, the Braves had come to an agreement to bring their former shortstop back to Atlanta after three […]

A video of Vin Scully reflecting on his near 60-year career in the booth. Try not to mist up a bit when he says that “the wolves are getting near the campfire.” In other news, I’d listen to Vin Scully read the instructions for heating up a microwave burrito.

Yesterday I threw out a quick jab at ESPN’s “report” of Barry Bonds saying he was still not retiring, taking issue at the fact that the story wasn’t really reporting as much as it was regurgitating a paparazzi encounter and passing it off as news. I received the following comment in response to the article […]

Keith Law is a smart cookie, and today on his personal blog, he made a pretty sharp observation in connection with being admitted to the BBWAA: I am still unclear on why, exactly, I might need to be a member; after conversations with probably a dozen current members, I think the opposite is true – […]