It sounds like Bobby Valentine will get the job in Florida.  It sounds like he has a long standing friendship with current owner Jefferey Loria, who is renowned for making hasty managerial decisions, such as firing Joe Girardi who was actually named Manager of the Year that year.  Sure he also fired Jeff Torborg, replaced [...]

Hands down, the simplest, clearest and best piece published this morning about Girardi’s second guess yesterday afternoon, is Marc Carig’s. If you haven’t already got your fill- check it out. Sometimes things move very fast in the game- guess yesterday was one of those days for Joe Girardi.

So the Yankee game was rained out today, but before it was I was able to catch a really nice moment on the practice pitching mounds in the park.  You don’t always get to see such things up close as a fan, but just before this there was some throwing on the side- by Javier [...]

Well, only a few teams start playing games on Tuesday, most will wait until Wednesday to fill their stadiums.  But with the dates getting close, teams are starting to announce who pitches when, and the Yankees gave their first clue through Joe Girardi’s office calendar according to this quick Chad Jennings piece.
I’m doing some traveling [...]

Just putting together a long post filled with a lot of different tidbits.  Afterall, the SuperBowl is tomorrow, so there isn’t much about baseball out there… but I think I managed to find a few interesting pieces.
First, the San Francisco Giants are holding their Fan-Fest today, but sometime over the next two weeks the Giants [...]