West: 1. LAAOA 2. OAK 3. SEA 4. TEX I would really, really like to think that the gig is finally up for the Angels, whose record last year is highly misleading. And, certainly, with the injuries in their excellent-if-healthy pitching staff the division (remember...
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West: 1. LA 2. ARI 3. COL 4. SF 5. SD I'll pretty much go chalk here. Signing Ramirez makes this a relatively easy call; their offense is by far.
Praise your preferred deity for baseball. Cincinnati has stepped up to the plate with an offering of 37 degrees and snow; it was 71 yesterday. Hopefully it will be better.
...I believe that it's down to Shooting in the Dark vs. bail this out in the LGM Tourney Bracket.I've set up the 2009 LGM Baseball Challenge league. Apologies for tardiness; the first game is tomorrow.League Name: Lawyers, Guns and MoneyPassword: zevonAs far as I can...
In light of what appears to be yet another successful extortion of taxpayers to get a new ballpark in Florida, Rob Neyer ponders the question of why these irrational deals.
Trend has the evidence.
While he's wrong about the filibuster, I should note today that Brien Jackson (at 10:40 A.M.) is completely right about PEDs. As I've said before, I have no problem if a majority of players agree to have enforceable bans on substances because they believe the...
Oh, God, coverage of the now nearly-at-hand beginning of the baseball season will once again be dominated by the thoroughly uninteresting news that completely unenforced nominal rules against drug use.
With Henderson going to the Hall of Fame, now is as good a time as any to relive the greatest Rickey stories of all time. This profile in The New.
...to the points Drezner makes about this silly column, let's start with this argument from Sherdian:What’s wrong here is obvious. It’s also not really new. Unlike the NFL, NBA and NHL, baseball has no salary cap. Those leagues do not have caps for the sheer,...
Speaking of Drezner, he says what needs to be said regarding the "Yankees are killing America" meme.
A back of the envelope calculation indicates the New York Yankees are now committed to approximately $875 million in guaranteed salaries over the next several years. To wit (all numbers.