Ted Williams’ youngest daughter is “horrified and shocked” by the fact that a judge won’t restrain an author from exercising his First Amendment rights. No word on how she feels about lab goons smacking her daddy’s frozen brain pan around with a monkey wrench.

Seems that Miguel Cabrera doing stupid drunk things in suburban bars is nothing new: During an altercation at a Birmingham bar in August, Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera allegedly mocked a teenager about his weight and challenged a man to a fight in an incident that resulted in no criminal charges but prompted Tigers management […]

It’s going to take me a while to figure out how the hell to structure my mornings without recaps. I might just link the NBC stuff as it goes live, foregoing the “Exile” post. I may make the mornings more of a series of quick links to other stuff as opposed to full blown posts. […]

Philadelphia’s better everyplace but the bullpen

This time, it’s about the hitting

It can be heard here. It’s not pleasant. None of them are, actually, but Roseangel Cabrera clearly says that Miguel Cabrera hit her. As Aaron notes, this is beyond baseball at this point.

I come not to praise the firing, but to analyze it.

The NL has revived Javier Vazquez, while Matt Cain battled staff ace Tim Lincecum for Giants’ ace status.

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 […]