You all know my “Bull Durham” fixation, so of course you know that I’m going to find a story about the renovation of the old Durham Athletic Park interesting. Sadly, nothing in there about the guy who donated the scoreboard. Or his daughter.

This morning in the recaps, I said this about Ichiro refusing MLB’s request that he participate in the Home Run Derby: The guy hits six homers a year. The only reason they’d want him in there is as a cynical ratings ploy for the Japanese market, which I’m assuming gets the All-Star broadcast. Good for […]

Things to read when you realize just how rough it is out there in the big, big world: New Yorkers fail to bring the hate. He said-he said re: the Jeter tag. Kenny Williams is miffed that White Sox fans wouldn’t overpay to watch the Dodgers when they were in town. Stan Conte will have […]

Not that he knew what was happening or anything, but check out the kid on the far right of this picture laughing at Ryan Dempster breaking a bone.

A look at the control a hitter has over his own line drive rate.