The Bobs help downsize minor league baseball; the importance of baseball in a marriage; finding Marie Kondo-approved joy in “meaningless” games
Position player pitcher poetry; stolen Sáenz is nothing new; the pitchers most impacted by sign stealing; music in which to troll the Astros (finally)
Casey should have been IBB’d; someone bought a hammer; official offseason spokesman Rogers Hornsby was destined to be a jerk
The World Series of; John Smoltz has three wishes; the freakin’ Yankees man
RIP Bonnie; a poem about how it works; they were almost the Washington *Yinkees*; bring back bloopers please and thank you
A little goodwill or je ne sais quoi; going to high school with the puberty-blessed Astros; the Twins cannot be intimidated by the Yankees’ Haka, but their fans can
Goodbye to the Cubs on WGN ; staggering to the finish line; Thames or Thames: the original gif or gif
An Uber driver has some parking tips; enjoy the baseball while they still baseball; a long overdue reshuffling of the Arizona Fall League team names
It’s not a “stolen” base, now is it?; the legend or myth of Mike’s cousin, the pitcher; an applicant for the Red Sox team president position makes their case
A poem about a joke about a fastball declared to be “boring”; it turns out Airplane! referenced a fictitious baseball game while you had the lasagna; if you can’t put a bird on it, how about a top hat?
The secret best Jeff Jones in MLB history; sleeping on a bullpen meltdown; hahaha, classic Bo Vine
South Bend to Myrtle Beach Des Moines to Knoxville Knocked down to dragged out What the cat dragged in Unconventional rehab A personal matter Highways are busy lately. Player absence How he carries himself Moving around really well May contribute in September That sports figure who shares a name with a poet. Confidence game It…
This past weekend was the ninth annual Saberseminar, held at Boston University. Touting itself as “Sabermetrics, Scouting and the Science of Baseball”, it is a gathering of roughly 350 nerdy baseball types from a variety of backgrounds: physicists, data wranglers, MLB front office guys (and gals) and tech-savvy fans of the game. The event is…
One of the unintended consequences of baseball being a sport of hats is that we can’t really tell if someone is losing their hair. Growing up, the first time this jarred me was seeing David Justice. I always saw him either hatted or helmeted, and the assumption in the back of my formative mind is,…
What’s happening in Miami in the bottom of the twelfth might remind you the teapot was left to boil this morning or you missed a birthday. A cold sweat or bad dream can do the job, but instead let the more pleasant score details be the cartoon slap. The jerseys you’ll observe on vacation out…
Dusty Diamond’s All-Star Softball was one of the more overlooked baseball titles of the 8-bit era. This is an often tossed about adjective for anything that isn’t Mario or Zelda, but I can vouch for its overlookability, since I discovered it about five years ago and now it’s probably one of my three favorite baseball…