After last night’s game, Mariners’ manager Ken Wakamatsu criticized his putative ace, Felix Hernandez: “Sometimes you’ve got to ask guys to step up. I didn’t think he stepped up today.” This afternoon, the Seattle Times’ Geoff Baker lays down the serious artillary fire. After an extended recap of Roy Halladay’s career arc and an assertion […]

I implore you, do not read Jim Caple’s writeup before watching the YouTube video embedded here. Go in completely blind. You’ll get that much more out of the experience. In other news, I now know what finally caused Bob Welch to quit drinking. UPDATE: Some quick research reveals that Welch quit drinking in the early […]

Lord Haw-Haw reports that Mark DeRosa is on the block: Indians third baseman Mark DeRosa is one of the first veterans to hit the trade block. Cleveland is now fielding offers for the versatile DeRosa, league sources say. The Indians are looking mainly for pitchers who can help them now. Although they are off to […]

Someone needs to buy me one of these. I take a large in most shirts, but if it’s one that will shrink a lot, better make it an XL. (thanks to reader Timmy for the link)

From the AJC’s story about how the Braves shuffling their lineup worked wonders last night: Every batter in the lineup recorded a hit except Jeff Francoeur, including pitcher Jair Jurrjens. And Francoeur got breaks, if not hits. His potential double-play groundball in the second inning drew an error that opened the door to a three-run […]

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The most protracted sale in the history of team sports is rounding third and racing, er, jogging, er, kind of shuffling for home! Chicago Cubs buyer Tom Ricketts is close to lining up three banks to arrange the $450 million financing necessary to complete his acquisition of the team, financial sources said, positioning him to […]

The Pohlads are kicking in more money to the new joint. And the new joint is starting to sound pretty spiffy: The Pohlad family on Friday announced it has again increased its contribution toward the construction of the Minnesota Twins’ new ballpark to help pay for rooftop seating and various other design enhancements . . […]

This week saw Carlos Delgado go on the disabled list with a chronic hip injury, threatening the Mets’ first base hopes for the remainder of the year. The Marlins demoted slumping outfielder Cameron Maybin, the Red Sox made a curious move, and D-Train returned.