Even granting that if a Slappy Rodriguez or Milton Bradley had done it they'd be getting raked over the coals, I don't blame St. Derek of Pasta Diving for his acting job -- I blame the umpires for yet another ridiculous blown call, which fortunately...
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I have to say that I am shocked, shocked by the general level of evil and ill will demonstrated by Yankee partisans: A curious phenomenon has emerged at the intersection.
It should be obvious that the Pete Rose Roast to be held this Saturday at the Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana stands a good chance of being the most disastrous.
OK, it's not an ode in a technical sense, but ode is a word I've often thought of when considering Frank Deford.
I've been meaning to contest David's contention that sabermetrics proves that managers don't matter. I don't actually think that sabermetrics has proven this, and I also don't think it's plausible..
When Lou Piniella announced that he was walking away from the Cubs before the end of the season, I saw Buster Olney assert on ESPNnews that Piniella was a Hall.
I hope that Stephen Strasburg's injuries turn out to be relatively minor and he's ready to go next year. But for the reasons cited by Posnanski and Neyer, I continue to think that paying the kind of money the Nationals did for Strasburg is a...
Given that this particular manifestation of the War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs has resulted in another federal prosecution, this research by Eric Walker couldn't be.
Huh: The win set a pair of season highs for the momentum-gaining Reds: It was their sixth straight, and it propped their lead to 3 1/2 games over the Cardinals.
My official reaction to the indictment of Roger Clemens is that I don't like perjury charges that are an outgrowth from "OMG baseball players use different kinds of PEDs than the good, clean ballplayers of my youth did" witch hunts. On the other hand, something...
Huh: Lou Gehrig, a heroic slugger for the Yankees baseball team, was famed for brushing aside repeated fractures and batting after nearly being knocked unconscious, before giving his name to.
My favorite detail about the Shot Heard Round the World is that after the game Thomson rode the subway home (apparently major league ballplayers in New York in the 1950s.