While I know we all want to know more about what is going on in baseball, I thought this piece about Daniel Bard, of the Red Sox,  and his friend showed a great balance between the baseball world and the real world.  Ian Browne writes about Daniel Bard’s plea to help find his friend.  This [...]

Since it is a lazy Sunday, and I spent yesterday unstopping a drainage culvert that was sending mountain water down my driveway and washing it out and my body is telling me today I did too much, I am going to just send you to some easy pieces on former, current and future players.
First, Felix [...]

One thing that always gets me is when I see fans that make us all look bad.  This morning, I read this Henry Schulman piece about the mobs that are following Buster Posey this spring.  Somewhere along the way, perhaps it was with the advent of movies where we can sit in a theater and [...]

It sounds like the Texas Rangers will acquire Benji Molina from San Fransisco in exchange for Chris Ray, a reliever they received in the off-season when they sent Kevin Millwood to Baltimore. Even with the Giants expected to pay a large portion of the Molina’s remaining salary, the trade is really win-win for both teams.
The [...]

Buster Posey started his first game at catcher last night for the San Francisco Giants.  He has been playing first for the last few weeks as he has acclimated to the big leagues.  Tonight, if you haven’t heard, Stephen Strasburg gets his first major league start tonight for the Nationals.  Both players are expected to [...]