I didn’t watch a single down of Florida-Oklahoma last night and I don’t regret it for a second. Craig Brown breaks down the Cubs’ signing of Milton Bradley. His prediction: a lot of time on the DL. Brown is too much of a gentleman to make the companion prediction of a Bradley meltdown when some […]

When there isn’t a lot of baseball news, I try to find non-baseball articles with which I can find fault. For example, here is an article about presidential aging that does not account for the fact that William Henry Harrison had every bit as youthful a countenance on his deathbed as he did the day […]

I’m in a Diamondmind sim league with Dayn Perry, Joe Dimino, Shredder, and a bunch of guys whose names you might know if you hang around Baseball Think Factory a lot. Last night I turned in my keeper list in the runup to this year’s draft. We’re allowed to keep ten players. I listed mine, […]

I’m tired this morning because I stayed up watching the Fiesta Bowl. But it wasn’t the hour, really. After all, the game ended before midnight, and even at the decrepit age of 35 I can handle midnight. No, I am tired because of the stupid emotional gymnastics I once again put myself through for the […]

The holidays dipped me in scotch, shook me around in a bowl of Chex mix, sprinkled me liberally over a bunch of college football games, and have now spit me out into 2009 with no direction, no mooring, and no frame of reference. It’s Monday, I guess, but because of the vicissitudes of this godforsaken […]

It’s four in the morning, the end of December. I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better. New Albany is cold, but I like where I’m living. There’s music on Market Street all through the evening. OK, I’m sorry for that Leonard. Last week professional ethicist Jack Marshall wrote a piece in which […]

Things to think about as you stand upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below: Evan Brunell checks out the paucity of transactions last week. For cryin’ out loud, why can’t they put Christmas in June so there’s at least some baseball going on? Over at Fantasy […]

Some stuff to think about while coming to grips with the fact that Killer Kowalski died this year and no one bothered to tell you: A couple of weeks ago, Dave Studeman looked at whether September games were more important than games in April and found out that they kinda sorta maybe were. Today he […]

The wife and I just put ShysterBoy and ShysterGirl to bed, there’s a generous pour of brown liquor over ice at my side, and I’m about to sit back and watch Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed do their thing. Life isn’t perfect, but you take your moments where you can get them, and this is […]

I went to the Columbus Blue Jackets-Los Angeles Kings game last night. As I sat in the stands, I smelled hot dogs and beer and heard organ music and the murmur and occasional roar of a crowd. I closed my eyes once and could almost imagine I was at a ballpark. When I opened them […]