Evidence that the Yankees have not turned a deaf ear (blind eye?) to the complaints over the cost of their stadium, the way in which it is being paid for, and what it has done to the price of tickets in New York: The price of a bleacher seat for the exhibition openers at the […]

Redleg Stats Blog (via BTF) has a pretty extraordinary transcript of Reds’ broadcaster Marty Brennaman unloading on a fan who dares to defend Adam Dunn: Caller: People here don’t realize that Pat Burrell and Adam Dunn don’t get paid $12 million to hit .300. They get paid to hit home runs; that’s it. Marty: No, […]

Catch up with Steve and Matthew as they complete their virtual decade with the robust Red Sox.

Lost in Transactions recaps a defense and pitching-heavy week.

For those of you who haven’t seen this elsewhere, The MLB Network is kicking things off on January 1st with a rebroadcast of Don Larsen’s perfect game from the 1956 World Series. I was planning on watching that anyway, but this article contains two little details of which I wasn’t previously aware which make it […]

The three worst things a person can be are: 1) child molester, 2) Nazi war criminal, and 3) Steve Garvey

The Red Sox have named JetBlue airlines as their official carrier: JetBlue Airways Corporation, Boston’s leading value airline offering more destinations than any other carrier at Logan International Airport, is proud to announce a multi-year partnership with one of the charter teams in the American League of Professional Baseball, becoming the Official Airline of the […]

Dave O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is one of the handful of newspapers dudes who really gets into blogging. Well, he calls it a blog, but because he’s not really linking to anybody, it’s more of a freewheeling stream-of-consciousness thing. Either way, it’s nice loose Posnanski-lite writing that I tend to enjoy more than your […]

Red Sox owner John Henry emailed the media late last night and said, in regards to Mark Teixeira, “after hearing about his other offers, however, it seems clear that we are not going to be a factor.” I think

I wasn’t a big fan of Lance Niekro: First Baseman, but this is something I can get behind: Twenty years have passed since a Niekro threw a knuckleball in a major-league game. Lance Niekro, the longtime Giants infield prospect, now hopes to become the next to keep the family craft alive. Niekro, who as recently […]