Debbie Schlussel is of the obnoxious, attention-whoring, race-baiting school of political commentary. And good for her. The First Amendment wasn’t made just for reasonable people. And though I find just about everything that she and people like her spout to be cynical at best, deplorable and hateful at worst, a certain part of my psyche […]

The Giants picked up a new first baseman: The Giants acquired first baseman Ryan Garko from the Indians on Monday, filling a big need in the infield and adding a key right-handed bat . . . The Giants, who fell out of the wild-card lead with a 3-7 road trip, gave up Class-A left-hander Scott […]

Adam Rubin has responded in print to Omar Minaya’s mad ramblings. I’m pretty satisfied with it. My take on it all is up here.

Reader Brian is watching the press conference: For those unable to watch the press conference, this is completely amazing. Adam Rubin of the Daily News did most of the reporting on Bernazard and Minaya just said that Rubin has lobbied in the past for a job with the Mets in player development. So they have […]

No word on if he challenged the door to a fight: Mets VP for player development Tony Bernazard has been fired, multiple sources with ties to the organization confirmed to the Daily News. The move is expected to be made official at a press conference at Citi Field this afternoon. I can’t recall ever hearing […]

Hey, you and Tommy Lasorda? I hate Tommy Lasorda. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with baseball, but it can be filed generally under obsessions. Probably worth mentioning here that seeing Gail Stanwyk in minor roles in two of my other obsessions were among my entertainment highlights of the 1990s.

I think this was already more or less a certainty, but now it’s more and more a certainty: Bobby Valentine says he won’t be back with the Chiba Lotte Marines next season even as the Japanese team’s fans lobby management to keep him . . . In a statement on his Web site, Valentine says […]

Jason is about as objective as it comes in the Yankee blogosphere, so it comes as no surprise that his review of Yankee Stadium — following his first-ever visit there yesterday — is tough but fair. Many of the comments echo those heard in every city that has gotten a new park in the past […]

That’s what Lord Haw Haw is Tweeting this evening: #yankees might – repeat, might – consider giving up joba for #halladay. but wont entertain request of joba & hughes. Whatever. It’s crazy season and guys like Heyman Tweeting whatever they overhear in the men’s room just add to the glory of it all. Even the […]

If anyone in baseball was gonna get it, you kind of had to figure that it would have been Mike Hampton, but instead it’s Padilla: Texas Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla tested positive for swine flu, though his symptoms are subsiding and he’s expected to make his next start. Padilla was scratched from his start Wednesday […]