Raymond Chandler once wrote that “The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.” The way I see it, if it’s all just luck and the […]

I was part of a 12-blogger trade late last night involving MVN, FanHouse, and Baseball Prospectus, but someone screwed up the paperwork and I somehow ended up back here. The lesson: people should just try to keep things simple. Colin Wyers wonders whether more actual butts in the seats gives the home team an advantage. […]

So I decide to go out for some cocktails after work last night. I’m at the Tip Top, gettin’ my drink on, when in walks this gorgeous brunette. I won’t bore you with the details, but we hit it off. And I mean really hit it off. Flash forward to 8PM: I’m booking home, trying […]

You know, as soon as I made it known I was going to move my blog, The Sporting News offered me an insane amount of money. I left that offer open for weeks, mostly because my wife didn’t want to move to North Carolina. Then I ran into Studeman in a Vegas hotel and told […]

Getting a deal done at the Winter Meetings is not as easy as everyone makes it sound. I mean, off the top of my head, I’d say you’re looking at a Boeski, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever. If you’re not […]

Things to chew on as you try to remember how much sleep you used to get before you had kids: For you voyeurs out there, Roel Torres writes a diary of his life and baseball for the week of July 18th through July 24th. He’s a Sox fan, so you get his recaps of Boston’s […]

My 11th grade trigonometry teacher made a secret deal with me: he promised to give me Cs if I promised not to sign up for his AP Calculus class my senior year. It was a fabulous tradeoff, and since then math and I have respected this non-agression pact to the letter. Thankfully we have guys […]

I tend to get stuff going really early around here. Some days, however, the kids don’t cooperate. Today is one of those days, as my son has decided to wake up at 5:30AM. Kids > blogging in the Calcaterra household, so posting will be delayed this morning. It happens.

A Tuck! A Borawski! A Carty! A Brattain! Panama! John Brattain makes Tim Raines’ case for Cooperstown by way of comparison to Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice, and Lou Brock. There will be much more on Rock later in the week, so think of this as an amuse-bouche. Deep thought: if Raines had played 12 seasons […]

While I suspect that a lot of longtime ShysterBall readers are longtime THT readers as well, that probably doesn’t go for everyone, so I’m going to try to make a regular point of letting you blog-feed-only people know that there is a lot of really spiffy stuff being posted over here every day. For example, […]