Thanks to Michael S. Schmidt, I continue to enjoy not having to read Kirk Radomski’s new book. The latest revelation: Officials for Major League Baseball said Wednesday that in the early stages of its steroids-testing program it did not summon players to its offices to tell them they had failed drug tests. The denial came […]

The first thing I usually do in the morning is round up the days’ articles in my “Today at THT” post. When I woke up this morning, however, the posts weren’t there yet. My first assumption: someone had infiltrated Orchid Station and turned that big crank Gleeman installed years ago, and now we find ourselves […]

White Sox fans and owners of the 1983 Fleer set will be interested to know that Ron Kittle is alive and blogging. Only one post up in the last month — that being from yesterday, where he tells us that he’s in Belgium, consulting with Belgian (Belgi? Belgi?) baseball coaches. Not sure exactly what he’s […]

ESPN has published Keith Law’s annual organizational rankings, and on the top of the list is the Texas Rangers. Keith says that the Rangers have done it every which way, including the draft, the international free agent market and, of course, via trades: And the Rangers have worked the trade market to add prospects, cashing […]

I was never a big Jeff Kent fan, but even I can see that the man is clearly qualified for the Hall of Fame. That said, I suppose there are reasonable, if ultimately unpersuasive arguments against Kent’s candidacy. The New York Daily News’ Bill Price, however, doesn’t make one of those: But I say Kent […]

The majority of minor leaguers aren’t bonus babies — they’re jobbers like you and me — and things are tough for them too: Most minor league players earn less than $10,000 for an entire season. These paychecks only come during the season, which makes finding a part-time job in the offseason a matter of survival. […]

Because I have some other stuff to do that, you know, might help me feed my family and stuff, we’re looking at a truncated posting schedule today. If this is troubling to you and you happen to own a commercial media company willing to pay a handsome sum for virtually unlimited and uninterrupted blogging, please […]

I’m kind of a sucker for Bill Bryson, who initially made his name writing columns in the U.K. as the fish-out-of-water American. In large part Bryson went native, however, now makes his permanent home in the U.K., holds positions with British universities and, depending on what he’s writing, often comes off more British than he […]

Why is it that we see several times more stories about a guy who hasn’t played for nearly three seasons than we do about scores of guys who are playing right now? Who is Bernie Williams’ press agent? The guy must never sleep.

Reader MooseinOhio hips me to an amazing post from Boston.com’s Buzz blog: According to NESN’s Red Sox reporter Heidi Watney, free-agent catcher Jason Varitek said he was not aware that teams would have to surrender a No. 1 draft pick in order to sign him and he takes full responsibility for his decision to turn […]