Every so often Doug Glanville pops up on the editorial pages of the New York Times, and each time, I am amazed at how clearly he presents his case, his perspective.  Athletes are supposed to be dumb, write?  But here he is again, with a very beautiful look at how a new free agent looks [...]

Yesterday, I was having a little trouble with the message board.  As I was working from a remote computer, I couldn’t really dissect the problem.  But the good news, today everything is working just right, and there is some great exchanges going on right now.  Mastag has even started a pretty cool game to carry [...]

Wallace Matthews writes a pretty darn accurate piece for Newsday, which you may or may not be able to click through to, because of Newsday’s crazy subscription policy.  The gist of Matthews point is that it is unlikely that the Mets can fill all the holes they have in this off-season with the pieces that [...]

If you see a latin short-stop in baseball wearing the number 13, its often a safe-guess that he is from Venezuela- of course the most current famous #13 is latin and used to be a short-stop, but he just happens to know his baseball history pretty well.
No most #13’s, who play short that is, follow [...]

Yesterday, Tim Lincecum won his second Cy Young in his first two years in the majors.  At the Writer’s dinner last year, everyone kept wondering who the teenager on the dais was, until of course they introduced Tim Lincecum. 
Lincecum is a bit of a surprise, it seems, since he didn’t garner the most first place [...]