Joe Sheehan shares his thoughts on a number of topics, including Minute Maid Park, Alex Rodriguez and paranoid umpires.
John Boles doesn’t know this, but for a time he was one of my favorite people. Every week, as I put together The Week in Quotes, I went through all the wire game recaps of two teams and gorged myself. Tony Muser was always good for a couple of lines, but John Boles was quote…
Some days, the thoughts just don’t come in clean… I’m watching the Devil Rays/Blue Jays game, and home-plate umpire Kerwin Danley has screwed it up royally. In the fourth inning, Luke Prokopec beaned Aubrey Huff with a fastball right off the earflap. It didn’t look intentional-there’s no history of bad blood, and purpose pitches tend…