I’m not in the Bay area, and away from my Direct TV MLB package so I didn’t get to hear the Jose Canseco diatribe that Gwenn Knapp talks about in her column today, but reading through this piece about the different roads of Jose Canseco and Barry Bonds it makes me think about another ex-player [...]

So a few readers have mentioned to me how hypicritical it is to let Manny Ramirez do a rehab assignment prior to his return to the major leagues after a suspension for a banned substance.  For my part, I think its more ridiculous that he could be voted into the All-Star game after such a [...]

I want to just apolgize for the brief posting the last few days.  Yesterday, my mother returned home after a 22 day stay in the hospital, which had her entering the emergency room with a ‘heart episode’ and included the discovery of a cancerous tumor in her colon.  The tumor was successfully removed, and now [...]

Huge news. Changes the tenor of the union in ways we can’t even imagine.  The Ron Blum’s story seems to be the piece most copied in most papers, and I never get to link to the Huffington Post (and its doubtful I ever will again) so that’s the version of that story I’m linking you [...]

Greg Bishop puts together an interesting piece about how two different pithers mechanics’  may actually produce the same motion.  Very interesting to read, to see how far pitching has come in terms of the research that has been done.  One would think though that from this, no one should need to throw 82mph ever again.  [...]