Look, I know I’ve been running about 95% A-Rod since Saturday, but it is a baseball story and this is a baseball blog, so at least I’m walking my beat here. For serious mission creep, check out Obama’s press conference on Monday. We’re in the midst of the greatest economic meltdown in living memory. Our […]

Screw the Joe Torre, Darryl Strawberry is the author of the book I most want to read this April: he New York Post reports the one-time baseball prodigy has a book due out in April and that “Straw: Finding My Way” will detail the boozing, skirt-chasing New York Mets of the mid-1980s. “We were the […]

A decade late and several hundred million dollars short, Wayne Huizenga has regrets: Outgoing Miami Dolphins majority owner H. Wayne Huizenga bid an emotional farewell to his favorite franchise Tuesday, but for the first time admitted he might have broke up the Marlins a year too soon after they won the 1997 World Series. “We […]

Just when you think this offseason couldn’t get more sordid and sad: Baseball great Roberto Alomar has full-blown AIDS but insisted on having unprotected sex, his ex-girlfriend charged Tuesday in a bombshell lawsuit. The shocking claim was leveled by Ilya Dall, 31, who said she lived with the ex-Met for three years and watched in […]

Yesterday it was Jeff Weaver, today it’s Eric Milton. It’s like the Dodgers are going out of their way to sign guys I’ve seen give up ten runs and fifteen hits in a single outing.

Things to read as you wonder whether it’s unethical to tell your five year-old daughter that there will be no shots at this morning’s doctor’s appointment when you know fully well that, yes, there will be shots: John Brattain is none too pleased with the A-Rod stuff, but it has very little if anything to […]

They’re protesting public funding for the Marlins’ ballpark down in Miami: Elected officials, community organizations, business owners and others gathered outside the Fillmore at the Jackson Gleason Theater in Miami Beach on Tuesday, explaining how the proposed Marlins baseball stadium would divert needed money from the local economy. One member of the coalition, City of […]

If you would have asked me three months ago whether it would more likely that Manny Ramirez or Jeff Weaver had a job come mid-February, I would not have bet on Jeff Weaver. Of course, I would have lost that bet.

Legislation geeks — and I know you exist and read this blog — will be interested to know that the Congressional Research Service (i.e. the outfit which does all of Congress’s research) is working to make its reports available to the public. One of the reports made public last week was the report that ultimately […]

I know everyone wants to talk about real baseball right now, but this blog has always followed the news, and the news just seems to be going this way lately: Former Baltimore Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada was charged today with lying to congressional investigators about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Federal prosecutors accused […]