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Why Baseball Needs Some Lin-sanity
Basketball is alive with the recent surge of Jeremy Lin for the New York Knicks. He led them on a seven game winning streak and put a spark into the basketball world. Baseball needs some Jeremy Lin. We...
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Prediction: The Pirates will finish .500 or better in 2012
In this space last week, I wrote that I wasn’t buying the steadfast hype this offseason for the Washington Nationals. I wrote that in the densely-packed National League East, the Nationals would be...
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A Very Special Episode of Arli$$ – Testimony begins on Monday in the Roger...
The Roger Clemens case becomes more confusing and contradictory by the hour. Let me explain. In the federal government’s failed effort to convict Barry Bonds of perjury, prosecutors told the judge they...
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Barry Bonds: The invisible man
I had an exchange this past Saturday with a blogging colleague, Wendy Thurm. It started with a tweet from Wendy: * RT @sundownmotel: They just called Albert Pujols “the best hitter in baseball in the...
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Roger Clemens…Where do we go from here?
So, Roger Clemens was cleared of all charges…again. What happens now? Well, he should never make it to Cooperstown. That is according to Hall of Famer, and fellow Yankee icon, Rich “Goose” Gossage. On...
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Bring on the Asterisk Era
Got Melk? Despite public outcry over well-established baseball “cheats”, MLB blatantly refuses to mark record book items with an asterisk or any other symbol to denote any form of cheating....
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Pittsburgh Pirates Working on 20th Year of Futility
WC Standings (from ESPN) The last time the Pittsburgh Pirates finished with a record above .500 Barry Bonds was skinny, George H. W. Bush was the President of the United States, and Miley Cyrus had not...
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With January’s Hall of Fame Inductions will come the rewriting of History.
This January, as it does every year, the Baseball Writer’s Association of America (BWAA) will be voting on the National Baseball Hall of Fame. What’s far from typical is the attention this year’s...
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The Hall Will Be A Bit Emptier This Year
After days of speculating, today we found out that no player was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for 2013. This has easily been the most controversial vote by the Baseball Writers’...
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Has Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame Become a Joyless Chore?
Filip Bondy of the New York Daily News pondered this question. “There was a time, not so long ago, when I received the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot with great joy and anticipation.” There was also a...
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