Well, this will be brief as I have spent this morning trying to find a decent article about the hiring of Don Wakamatsu, and shockingly not one of any quality came out of the Seattle area. Then, I checked the San Francisco  Chronicle and one of my favorites wrote about Wak’s departure. Susan Slusser’s piece gets [...]

Nick Cafardo writes about what the AL MVP Award will mean to Dustin Pedroia’s bottom line, and the answer at this moment is not much.  He is not eligible for arbitration until next year, and even with the awards his numbers don’t compare to Ryan Howard, the last guy to win ROY and MVP awards back [...]

For an autographed copy of my book, The View from the Stands tell me who is the only player in Major League history to play in the Majors without playing one game in the minor leagues? — hint: He did it for the Padres in 1973. Now if you know the answer, send it to me [...]

Two quick pieces.  The first a follow-up to Sunday’s post about the Rays and all the factors working against them actually succeeding in Tampa. The Rays have announced 2009 ticket prices and they have done a brilliant job of setting things up so they can head in the right direction. They also have done a [...]

There isn’t much “news” out there, so I am just going to point you to two quick blog posts.  The first is for Yankee fans, its the Hot Stove mailbag from Pete Abraham who takes a lot of great questions and spells out his perspective and the perspective the Yankees have sent out.  The interesting question [...]