So, clearly there is nothing more to write about today then yesterday’s HOF election results.  And though I am still not a believer in Rice, I always get a little won over when I see how happy that borderline guy is upon getting the call. Nick Carfado’s piece gives you that, as well as a way [...]

Dave Krieger writes this morning about a flawed system that forces a team to have to trade a big beloved slugger from the middle of the line-up instead of signing him to a long-term deal… yeah, he’s right you know, this free agency thing just blows.  A player of Holliday’s quality should be forced to stay [...]

Starting with the Marlins, there are a couple of quick things.  Plans for their new stadium are staring to be finalized, and they intend to keep  their home a pitcher friendly park.  Not a bad plan, since free-agents pitchers certainly have few of those places to choose from and that can be a deciding factor [...]

 
Ken Davidoff sums up the game last night nicely and basically in two words: Cole Hamels.  Hamels was beautiful, even when he balked.  As Davidoff points out, the beauty of Hamels for the Phillies is he will be around for awhile too.  Davidoff points out, too, that Hamels was taken two picks after Kazmir in the [...]

“Ya Gotta Believe” is one of my favorite moments of being a fan, its what baseball is about.  Its when it crosses from just a sport to some sort of religion.  Though I don’t see Tug McGraw, the coiner of that great phrase, as any kind of zealot, I do think he captured what it [...]

 
So when I saw the headline Ice Cold  A’s Hit for Loss again I immediately thought back to the mood in the Twins clubhouse when Minnesota traded away Luis Castillo last year.  The players believed it was a sign the organization didn’t care about winning, and that the team was in store for a lot of [...]