Mark Bowman believes that Tom Glavine will retire within the next couple of weeks: Tom Glavine says that he’ll wait at least two weeks before determining if he’ll ever pitch again. But as he spoke yesterday afternoon, it was hard to ignore the belief that he seemingly already knows his fate . . . . […]

Given the heat seeking missile that Matt Taibbi sends up Brian Cashman’s rear with this article in the May issue of Men’s Journal, I can only assume that Cashman ran over Taibbi’s dog and slept with his wife. Or vice-versa. Or maybe he had a threesome with them and then ran them both over: . […]

Here’s an article catching up with former Giant Dave Dravecky. I don’t subscribe to the religious views he does and I have about three hours worth of rants about the motivational speaking circuit in which he now earns his living, but none of that really matters. What matters is that when I was 16 I […]

It has nothing much to do with the article in which it’s found, but this kind of quote, about the challenges of facing the Cubs, always makes me smile: “It’s big, especially with a team as quality as they are,” Wainwright said. “They’re going to be there at the end battling you. Anytime you can […]

Apparently the Giants’ problems are all mental: “Are we this bad? No,” manager Bruce Bochy said, attempting to answer the central question about his team. “But right now we are.” And the first thing the Giants need to do to get better? “What you start with as much as anything,” he said, “is how we […]

On April 14, 1969, Brad Ausmus was born. In his 17-year caree, he has appeared in more games than all but a handful of catchers. During this career, Ausmus posted a historic batting line, which inspired Richard to look at other, similar hitters.

Usually in extortion cases, the party doing the extorting doesn’t meet with the victim until after all of the damning information is assembled. They must do it differently in California: A committee formed by the commissioner of Major League Baseball to study the Oakland A’s stadium dilemma met for the first time with Oakland Mayor […]

A one-acre site in front of the Rome Braves’ stadium was supposed to be a Hooters, but it looks like that’s not happening: The acre of land in front of State Mutual Stadium that was to be the new Hooters restaurant is in foreclosure and will be sold at auction May 5 at the Floyd […]

Via BTF, here’s what may be the worst “celebrity” blog of all time. Jeff Francoeur’s. It’s obviously put together by either his P.R. people, his sponsors, or both, as evidenced by constant references to the products either he or the Braves endorse: Not only do the Braves get to play in one of the nicest […]

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