From Heyman: Albert Pujols, for all his heroics this year, has one hit with a RISP and two outs (1 for 14, with 15 BB and 10 IBB), and as Joel Sherman of the New York Post (and SI.com) pointed out, Mets’ youngster Nick Evan passed Pujols with two in two days vs. Pujols’ Cardinals. […]

Slate has a good article up arguing the superiority of the dead-center camera over the traditional, slightly-offset camera. I’m in favor of the dead-center, which ESPN toyed with for a year or two and which the Red Sox, Cardinals and Twins use now. This dissent from the article is understandable, however: There are also television […]

I’m going to spare everyone the big Michael Jackson post I was going to write because (a) it represented mission creep even for me; and (b) it wasn’t coming together all that well. Jonah has a good one up if you’re curious. I’ll just say this: Michael Jackson and his handlers probably spent most of […]

Does this give me license to go off topic and dive into a Posnanskian-length Michael Jackson essay when I get some time later today? The year was 1976. Farrah Fawcett had the poster that was on walls everywhere. Michael Jackson was fronting “The Jacksons” — as the band started off on its own a year […]

In the wake of Michael Jackson’s passing, all of the players in yesterday’s games wore one glove in his memory. . . Yankees 11, Braves 7: Buster Olney went all Jerod Morris on A-Rod yesterday (query: does the fact that Rodriguez tested positive for steroids six years ago, and a year before the institution of […]