After all of that buildup last week, the Miami-Dade County Commission punted on Friday: The Florida Marlins encountered another curveball Friday in their bid for a new ballpark. City commissioners met for 7 1/2 hours without reaching a final decision on a plan to build a 37,000-seat stadium near downtown. They agreed to take up […]

They really don’t like the Yankees in New England: The Lowell Spinners (short season; NY-Penn League) announced the continuation of a popular program: eliminating the New York Yankees in youth baseball programs throughout New England. Originally developed as a response to the heartbreak and taunting children assigned to Yankees youth baseball and softball teams face, […]

Many are speculating in the comments to the Marlins post this morning about where the Marlins might move if Miami falls through. The discussion thus far has focused on Las Vegas, as it often does when new potential Major League cities are mentioned. For what it’s worth, I’ve often been dubious of Las Vegas as […]

Why the answer to this question is an easy one.

Spring training is finally here! Now we get six weeks of watching pitchers throw gently off a mound and the scrubs get face time on the television networks. While there are still plenty of quality free agents unsigned, they’re starting to concede the economic climate as we’ve seen with Adam Dunn and Braden Looper signing deals.

Finishing up where last week left off, the second half of Detroit’s history of good but rarely great starting pitchers.

Let’s dispense with the death by a thousand sportswriter cuts business and get right down to indicting A-Rod’s butt: Would the Reprobate, Alex R., please rise? Alex R., The Pontificate accuses, convicts, and sentences you for the following High Crimes: High Crime Count 1: You, the Greatest Player in the Game, took illegal steroids six […]

This morning I posted Jorge Costales’ response to my anti-Marlins stuff, and now Will Wilson has a response to Jorge’s response, taking specific issue with Jorge’s argument that the Marlin Money was designated for entertainment-related purposes to begin with: Governments (politicians) earmark specific revenue and expenditure streams in order to artificially restrict the universe of […]

I’ve slagged on the Marlins’ stadium across a dozen posts by now, so it’s probably time I grant some equal time. Here’s a comment on my post about this from Wednesday, from the guy who probably knows more about this deal than the dudes who are going to vote on it later today, Jorge Costales: […]

The Twins unveiled the plans for the space surrounding their new ballpark yesterday, and it sounds pretty spiffy: Other plans for the space include nine 40-foot tall topiary frames, lit with LED lights and twisted with annual vines. (To the beer snobs among us: Plaza designer Tom Oslund said hops will be one of those […]