This time through the eyes of Bill Plaschke who seems to think the Jamie McCourt was completely out of line for asking the questions she asked yesterday in Dylan Hernandez’s article.  Sure, its ridiculous that there needs to be a choice made between  helping build ball fields and paying one player $30 million dollars a year.  But [...]

Its about time.  Yesterday, as Dylan Hernandez writes, Jamie McCourt, President of the Dodgers, actually asked if the fans would rather see Manny Ramirez at Chavez Ravine or use that same money for the charitable contributions like building 50 youth ball fields around the LA area.  Thats the question isn’t it?  I believe, as fans, we [...]

Congratulations to Vinny, who knew that Craig Biggio broke Don Baylor’s modern record for being hit by pitches in 2005.  Vinny will receive  50 free cards from CustomSportsCards.com.  Additionally, here is a funny, related blog, called Plunk Everyone.com, and amusing site which tracks hit by pitches.

Interestingly, the Colorado Rockies have hired Don Baylor as hitting coach.  Baylor served as the original manager for the franchise, and lead the team to its first post-season in 1995. He had been working as a roving coach for the team since mid-summer, but, it seems was recruited by the current manager Clint Hurdle to [...]

Just a quick note to explain much of the transaction movement you might have seen last week.  Thursday was the date that rosters had to be set in order to protect a player from the Rule V draft.  Here are some basics about what that means. Players drafted out of high school or signed internationally [...]