And directly on the heels of writing that mondo-long post about silly BBWAA voting, four people who would never employ dumbass reasoning like that are granted admittance to the tribe: Rob Neyer and Keith Law of ESPN.com and Will Carroll and Christina Kahrl of Baseball Prospectus have all been asked to join the BBWAA’s ranks. […]

There are so many things wrong with FOX’s baseball broadcasts, but at least now there will be one less wrong thing: The Fox network is considering dropping its Saturday pregame show before Major League Baseball broadcasts next season. “In this economic climate, like most businesses, we’re being forced to review our options for reducing costs,” […]

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Pop Quiz!! The poor headline editing set forth in the screen cap below (article can be found here) explains (a) why the Chicago Tribune is going bankrupt; (b) why Ron Santo doesn’t get any respect; or (c) both: The extra “s” stands for “shafted!”

A local news station is reporting that the Rocky Mountain News is likely to shut down soon: The Rocky, Colorado’s oldest newspaper, was put up for sale on Thursday after owner E.W. Scripps Co. said it lost about $11 million on the operation in the first nine months of the year. Cincinnati-based Scripps said in […]

The MLB Network has built itself a stadium: Dubbed Studio 42 — after Jackie Robinson’s number — the MLB Network will convert what used to be MSNBC’s main set in Secaucus, N.J., into a sort of ballpark. Its infield is only half regulation size. But, says Tony Petitti, president of the MLB Network, which launches […]

This is a kind of neat article about some insanely complicated master control room equipment for monitoring video feeds and stuff. I say “kind of neat” because I don’t understand about every fifth word, so I’m erring on the side of caution. Anyway, it appears that the MLB Network has bought one of these bad […]

Holden Caulfield –er, I mean Joel Sherman of the New York Post has some sharp words for Andy Pettitte: If Pettitte signs elsewhere, regardless of the dollar figure, he should be viewed as a world-class phony forever around here. There should be no more pardons. He should receive no invites to future Old-Timers Games, hear […]

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