Recently my pal Alex Belth moved his Bronx Banter blog to Cub Reporter Christian Ruzich’s all-baseball.com domain. Now Mike’s Baseball Rants can be found there, as can a new blog by Baseball Prospectus medhead Will Carroll. Will’s in dire need of a name for his blog, cuz “The Will Carroll Weblog” doesn’t cut it. Jeez, …
Roger Clemens will be gone, and (most likely) so will David Wells. What the Yankees decide to do about Andy Pettitte this winter, when the 31-year-old lefthander with 160 wins in pinstripes (including the postseason) becomes a free agent, is still up in the air. But anyone who came into Thursday night’s game looking for …
Last night’s other American League Divisional Series showdown, Game One between the Oakland A’s and the Boston Red Sox, turned into a four-and-a-half hour epic, won by the A’s in the 12th inning. The game started at 10 PM EST. I was out at a bar with friends and came home around midnight to watch …
Consider yourself warned. The Gang of Four weren’t singing about short postseason series when they wrote “History’s Bunk,” but they may as well have been. As I pointed out prior to the opening of the Yankees-Twins series on Tuesday, the Yanks had beaten the Twins in 13 straight games over the past two seasons, and …
Even with the Yankees having clinched the AL East and the Mets having long since given up the ghost, the final days of the regular season have brought no shortage of memorable moments and milestones. I spent Thursday night at Shea Stadium and Friday night at the House That Ruth Built and enjoyed goosebump moments …
I found this in my inbox this morning, submitted via my contact page. Perhaps it’s a bit self-serving of me to publish the note and my response here, but as The Dude says, “This aggression will not stand, man.” From some idiot with the address stace_sisco@@yahoo.com: thanks for ruining a number of pages on baseballreference.com. …
Blue Jays first baseman Carlos Delgado etched his name in the history books Thursday night with a four-homer game against the Devil Rays, becoming the 15th player to do so. After the game, Toronto GM J.P. Ricciardi speculated that the performance gave his slugger’s MVP candidacy a boost: “Tonight might be the thing that just …
The 1962 New York Mets are getting a lot of play lately, both for the Detroit Tigers’ Alan Trammell-led and untrammeled assault on their monumental total of 120 losses and for the current model of the Metropolitans shaming the Shea Stadium faithful into submission. ESPN Page 2’s Jeff Merron has a tale of the tape …
I went up to Maine to visit friends this past weekend, so I didn’t watch any baseball. But several things caught my eye over the past few days. • Ted Lilly came to the A’s rescue again. On Friday and Saturday, the Seattle Mariners spanked the A’s in the first two games of their series, …
I’ve been thinking about Barry Bonds lately, more specifically about the way I respond to Barry Bonds. Perhaps its a story emblematic of our times, or maybe just a sad commentary on my own capability for detatchment, but it took the recent death of his father for Barry Bonds to finally break through to me. …