Wherein Richard visits the Windy City, coming back with a few photos and a good deal of history.

Actually, it’s a bit of all three. Writing while dressed in sackcloth and ashes, I look at where it all went wrong for the 2007 Blue Jays.

The Yankees have their noses in front in the race for A-Rod’s signature.

And I thought I wrote stupid columns.

Steve finds a whole lot to like in a new baseball novel you probably haven’t heard about yet.

You’d have thought it would, but in reality he’ll still get a nice juicy offer from someone, somewhere.

It’s deja 1987 all over again

A video breakdown of two prized prospects: Boston’s Clay Buchholz and the Yankees’ Ian Kennedy.

In this turbulent period, the two biggest-winning teams in modern history get there with very different levels of farm production, while a third franchise struggles mightily despite tremendous talent development.

A week of games between playoff contenders have cleared some of the waters as we enter the final month.