Last week, I tried to write a bit about the off-field life of professional athletes, dipping into the Tiger Wood’s situation a little too heavily.  I never published it because it landed somewhere between excuse-making and preaching- neither of which was I going for.
Well, Doug Glanville wrote a fantastic op-ed piece about what it feels [...]

Saturday marked the 90th anniversary of Babe Ruth being traded to the Yankees.  Mark Newman writes a nice piece about how that trade changed the history the Yankees for the better.  Remember, before Ruth, the Yankees were a laughingstock. Ruth set them on their way to being the most storied franchise in baseball history.
Anthony DiComo [...]

Hall-of-Famer Tracey Ringolsby writes the most complete overview of the National League Hot Stove.  The gist?  Don’t look for the Astros to be any better.  The Brewers are fighting hard to fill holes, as are the Giants.  Several teams are waiting on a player of players to make up their minds before they move on [...]

Next year I have to remember to do a Hanukah week of posts, but time slipped right by me this year.  Today though is Christmas, and as we learned earlier this week, Rickey Henderson’s birthday.
I just want to take some time this Christmas morning to thank my readers from this past year.  As the traffic [...]

OK, this piece isn’t really about Money ball, just about the A’s.  But, isn’t in interesting that the team that is most closely associated with the term “money ball” and veered away from non-productive outs, such as the failed stolen base, now seems to be building a team that can steal bases?
Since the steroid era [...]