Bad morning with several phony work emergencies, so I only got four jabs in over at NBC: Barry Bonds is done playing baseball, so just cut it out. Let’s hear it for Rule 10.17(b)! It’s probably good that the MLB Network is going to broadcast the draft in prime time, but they should probably be […]

Yankees 11, Tigers 0: The motto of the Yankees’ bullpen after seeing the Tigers’ bullpen in action: “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” Speaking of bullpens, Phil Hughes started and threw six shutout innings which, if I understand New York thinking, means that we should […]

Darren Rovell is not impressed with last week’s strories about attendance being down 7%: Last week, when the Associated Press wrote that Major League Baseball’s average attendance for the first two weeks was off 6.9 percent from last year, many news outlets just reported the number. Well, I just did the math and it’s not […]

From yesterday’s New York Times, a walk around Busch III, which greatly impressed George Vecsey. This had me nodding in approval: The playing field has avoided the intentionally quirky corners and gimmicks of many newer ballparks. “Our No. 1 criteria was that we wanted it to play like the other Busch,” said Tony La Russa, […]

In December, the Red Sox agreed to a 30-year deal with Lee County to keep their spring training facility in Fort Myers. As part of the deal, the county agreed to build a new spring training complex. Now, it seems, that the FBI is interested in, well, something relating to that process: Florida’s Lee County […]

Eric Wedge is looking for leadership among his players: Manager Eric Wedge is looking for leaders. He says they have to come from the Indians’ position players and they better not take too long to get here . . . . . . “There are certain things that are happening that shouldn’t be happening,” Wedge […]

There are some people who claim that NBC didn’t promote Star Trek enough back during its original run, but that’s simply not true. There were loads of promotional materials, media kits, etc. released prior to its fall 1966 launch, and some of that stuff is an awful lot of fun to look at these days. […]

I’m a pretty major Bob Dylan fan, so putting him in a ballpark gets me 50% of the way towards my personal Nirvana (the remaining 50% would be covered by including corned beef sandwiches and a complicated brunette with a dark rhythm in her soul, though not necessarily in that order). For now we have […]

We’ve read about Yankee Stadium’s problems for two weeks now. Too many home runs. Not enough fans in the seats. Too expensive. Frankly, it’s played out. But now comes news of a truly serious problem*: THE new Yankee Stadium has a problem. No, it’s not all those home runs, it’s the beer. The stadium pushes […]

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