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I’ve mentioned before that I love organ music at the ballpark. It’s one of the reasons why Dodger Stadium ranks so high for me, actually. Lots of organ + nice weather = awesome, and it’s a sad thing for me when I walk into a ballpark and get assaulted with the rock and roll and […]

Tim Lincecum: more prepared this year than last: With tonight’s temperatures expected to reach a humid 86 degrees, Tim Lincecum knows from experience how to get ready for his first All-Star Game appearance — drink lots of liquids. The San Francisco Giants’ ace, picked to start for the National League, missed last year’s event in […]

Somewhere along the line Heath Bell knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to him: Bell was among the last All-Stars to arrive at their hotel, checking in at 10:17 a.m. Monday after he, Padres teammate Adrian Gonzalez, Gonzalez’s wife, Betsy, and batting practice pitcher Ray Krohn […]

I sat and read the USA Today while eating my turkey sandwich, so the next few items of the day all come from there. First up, Roy Halladay — who is not going to be traded — on where he’d like to go if he were traded: Halladay, 33, who has a full no-trade clause, […]

The 2009 Giants are a good ball club. Who knew?

Lost in Transactions returns after a month-long hiatus—and a significant week.

We knew this was going to happen, we just thought it was going to happen sooner: In the middle of his third season as manager, Manny Acta has been fired by the Washington Nationals, a source with knowledge of the situation said tonight. Asked in an e-mail about his job status, Acta replied, simply, “Thanks […]

I’ve never felt more loved and cared for in the world than I do right now. No less than 25 people have emailed, Twittered, Facebooked, and/or smoke signaled me to give me this glorious, wondrous news: Two National League East foes swapped outfielders on Friday, as the Mets traded Ryan Church to the Braves for […]

Joe Hamrahi tweets: The Royals have acquired SS Yuniesky Betancourt and cash from the Mariners for minor league pitchers Danny Cortes and Derrick Saito! The Royals are probably the only team to which Betancourt could have gone and represented an upgrade at short. How much of that contract is going to be paid by the […]