A cool live take of the song for fans of The Hold Steady, the Baseball Project or the Twins. A little rougher than the studio version, but that’s the beauty of live music. You gotta love how Craig Finn sings about his Twins like it’s a Clash or Springsteen anthem. It’s like his life depends […]

Athletics 5, Rangers 4: The promise of the Athletics’ offseason: adding a bit of offense to cover the holes from last year and bolstering the bullpen to solve the team’s other big weakness. Job well done as far as this game goes, as Hideki Matsui hit a walkoff homer in the 10th after the Athletics’ […]

Ten years ago today, David Wells said the most asinine thing in his life. That’s quite a statement, as Wells was known for the controversial, if not necessarily very well thought out remark. But what he said on May 3, 2001 sure was a doozy. At that time, he was the big name new pitcher […]

I’ve started pulling together my usual Hardball Times graphs for the current season, thanks to data from Fangraphs and Baseball Reference, and I’ve found a most curious thing. Of course, there are always curious things early in the year—fewer games yield more quirks—and I don’t think this is a predictive trend or anything like that. […]

Superman has renounced his U.S. citizenship. It’s okay Clark Kent, we can get bad guys on our own. Your division leaders as of this morning are the Indians, Yankees, Angels, Phillies, Cardinals, and Rockies. The Indians have the best record in the AL (and baseball), and the Phillies pace the NL. (The NFL had a […]

Freedom, liberty, decency and peace: 1, Osama Bin Laden: 0: I never thought any death could make me happy, but I guess I was wrong.  Here’s hoping that this development helps us turn the page on ten long, dark years and move forward into a better future. I spent the weekend in New York and […]

Ten years ago today, Greg Maddux pitched probably the greatest game of his career. He threw a complete game shutout, allowing only two hits and a walk, while striking out a very un-Maddux-ian 14 batters. I say “un-Maddux-ian” because he’s never thought of as a great strikeout pitcher. That said, he’s tenth all-time in strikeouts. […]

Another week of baseball is behind us, and the following are the best games that occurred during the last seven days. date game stars 04-25 Braves @ Padres ** 04-25 Dodgers @ Marlins ** 04-26 Giants @ Pirates ** 04-29 Cardinals @ Braves ** 04-30 Angels @ Rays * With a full month of ballgames […]

Twenty-five years ago today, one of the greatest pitching performance in baseball history occurred: Roger Clemens set a record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game when he fanned 20 Mariners. Clemens’ mark has since been tied three times, including once by Clemens himself, but it’s still an impressively long time to hold the record. Steve […]

Yankees 3, White Sox 1: Bartolo Colon is pitching like it’s 2002 again or something (8 IP, 7 H, 1 ER). Quick! Bartlo! Send an email to 2002-era Craig and tell him not to put off that trip to Paris he planned with the missus and then cancelled. Contrary to what they each said, the […]