Following up on Jason’s news from Friday, Rob announces the team-specific blogs that are now partnered with ESPN. There they are: • Fire Brand of the American League (Red Sox); • Mack Avenue (Tigers) • GoHalos.com (Angels); • Memories of Kevin Malone (Dodgers); • Nick’s Twins Blog; (Colt .45s); • It’s About the Money (Stupid!) […]

Thanks for all of the kind words in the ATH thread, folks. It makes the three or four years I’ll be losing at the end of my life due to chronic sleep-deprivation all worthwhile. A preview of the Cardinals-Dodgers NLDS. This smells like conventional baseball writing. I don’t do conventional baseball writing very well, so […]

Tigers 5, White Sox 3; Twins 13, Royals 4: 162 games and nothing is decided. Before Saturday night the Twins hadn’t smelled first place since May. They were seven games out in early September. Now it all comes down to Tuesday. I love me these 163-game seasons we’ve been having the past couple of years, […]

In my rush to make an immature joke the other night in the wake of Dick Pole’s firing, I neglected to think hard about the possible reasons for his dismissal despite a more or less decent Reds’ pitching staff. Viva El Birdos is speculating a bit, however: Isn’t it curious that the Reds fired pitching […]

Wow. Bill Plaschke gets paid for writing sentences like this: Sick of staring at it, the Dodgers became it, pouring themselves across Chavez Ravine on Saturday night like the champagne that has haunted them. Clayton Kershaw popped. Casey Blake bubbled. Mark Loretta sprayed. An entire dugout of bouncing blue poured into the cool night awash […]

Not a surprise. Even if he had made the Jays more competitive with the Sox and Yankees, his utter inability to communicate with people, including the press and his underlings should have doomed him. When J.P. started, he had a good team of people around him, including our buddy Keith Law. Slowly but surely he […]

I don’t necessarily agree with the Kevin Towers firing — I think he’s always been a good GM — but you never know what happens behind the scenes. Maybe it was someone else who was the driver behind the Jake Peavy trade and other good deals, and thus Towers shouldn’t get the credit. Maybe he […]

Really, he did. The Reds pitching staff wasn’t that bad. (hat tip to Mrs. Shyster for the headline. Seriously)

Ed Wade chuckles: Authorities now have an arrest warrant for former major league pitcher Shawn Chacon as a result of his alleged failure to pay Caesars Palace $150,000 in gambling markers. The 31-year-old Chacon — a onetime All-Star whose up-and-down career as a big league pitcher ended abruptly last year following a physical confrontation with […]

I don’t know what to think about Chicago not getting the Olympics. Is it that Chicagoans don’t bribe people anymore or that they’re simply not good at it anymore? And to be honest, I’m not sure which of those two things would make me more sad: Hatin’: you’re doing it wrong. Somebody wake up Cito […]