As I noted this morning, THT’s Fantasy Focus has enabled comments. I think this is a good thing in that, as I’ve said before, blogs are about conversations, and comments make the blogger-reader communication a genuine two-way street. I encourage you all to comment on the stuff you read wherever you read it, because the […]

Yesterday I threw out a quick jab at ESPN’s “report” of Barry Bonds saying he was still not retiring, taking issue at the fact that the story wasn’t really reporting as much as it was regurgitating a paparazzi encounter and passing it off as news. I received the following comment in response to the article […]

Sports Business Journal has released its annual 50 Most Influential in Sports Business list. Your top baseball guy is, no surprise, Bud Selig at number 6. Part of the comment on Selig: “While he’ll never be fully appreciated or beloved by the public, Selig remains highly popular with club owners and fully secure and effective […]

The Phillies just gave a 46 year-old pitcher a two year deal. The fun part: it’s way less likely that they’ll be burned on this than it will be for the Yankees to be burned by the five-year deal they just gave a 32 year-old.

Columbus like a Christmas tree, Tonight this city belongs to me. Josh Kalk looks at what happens to Ben Sheets when he pitches while injured. Your guess as to where Kalk got the data of a non-injured Sheets pitching is as good as mine. Treder and Namee continue their series on what the 1916-1925 Red […]

It’s the divorce that keeps on taking: San Diego Padres owner John Moores told MLB.com this weekend that he has hired Goldman Sachs to identify potential buyers for the ballclub. Moores, who bought the team in 1995 for approximately $80 million, said the international banking firm has been hired as a financial advisor to study […]

Since when does ESPN run descriptions of short TMZ.com video clips as news stories? And if you’re an ESPN reporter who breaks his or her butt calling sources and landing interviews, don’t you feel a bit silly for not having thought about changing your beat to the valet line outside of fancy restaurants? Much easier […]

Chew on this the next time your local columnist spouts off about how baseball salaries are out of step with reality or out of touch or insensitive or whatever the hell else mere economic transactions are incapable of being: Major League Baseball players received about 52 percent of leaguewide revenue last season, said MLB’s Rob […]

Reason number 137 why, even a couple of months later, it doesn’t feel like the Phillies are the World Champions: South Korean pitcher Park Chan Ho has signed a Major League Baseball contract with the World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies, the club announced Monday on its website. The one-year deal, reportedly worth 2.5 million dollars […]

For a while I was convinced that I had bored poor old Scott Simkus to death a couple of weeks ago when he interviewed me, but he’s back with another interview, and this time the subject is far more interesting: Josh Wilker of Cardboard Gods. In it, you can learn about Buster Olney hanging on […]