I am driving across western New York this morning, listening to David McCullough read 1776 on CD and learning how General Washington fortified the land around New York City.  The thought has entered my head, on this final day of the non-waiver trading season, that the American League Central (heck, all of the American League) [...]

Better late than never!
Today’s Trivia:
For a $10 gift card from itunes, Who did the Yankees give up to get Paul O’Neil in 1992?  There were no winners to yesterdays question, but Ralph Terry gave up Bill Mazeroski’s home run in the 1960 World Series. You will have until the end of the day tomorrow to [...]

Brian Cashman may not have secured his pitcher yet, but he solved the one missing piece in his line-up… that of Jorge Posada by trading for one of the other premier catchers in the league in Pudge Rodriguez.  Additionally, he didn’t give up a single prospect for the rental of Pudge for the remainder of [...]

John Harper does a great job of really spelling out the back story on what is happening with the Yankees/Mariners deal, basically a big game of chicken.  Harper’s point about the recent start of Ponson and Rasner having an effect is key.  What is interesting here, and in the big deal yesterday that did happen is [...]

So, with everyone bad mouthing the Yankee/Pirate trade, I went looking to see if I  could find Neil Huntington’s thoughts on it.  In theory, this article by Rob Biertempfel gives you Huntington’s  point of view, but perhaps, he did jump the gun a bit.  Sure if Tabata turns out to be the great bat he is [...]

Traveling today, and left my computer power cord at my last stop.  Don’t have much battery power, so will have to get a new one  tomorrow, and then post later in the day.  Just wanted to put a quick note up, to ask for your patience. No winner in Friday’s trivia question, and the answer [...]