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Royals Somehow Continue To Exist — For Now
According to our calculations, the only two Kansas City Royals fans left on the planet are Rob Neyer and Bill James (who works for the Red Sox now and is therefore divided). This is a shame. The Royals were once one of baseball's prestige franchises and now, writes Baseball Prospectus' Joe Sheehan...
Today in MLB Blogs
Nothing much to report from ... oh, here's something. "Tour of Duty" blog authors Kevin and Sean recently visited the wax museum. Right after this photo was taken, Lasorda had to return to his real job with the Dodgers — covering the infield when it rains. Vin Scully, of course, is so old that he...
Clemens Sets Nerd Stat Record
If the sabermetric nerds ran the planet, Roger Clemens would have been carried off the Minute Maid Park field last night. In a 9-0 loss to the Reds, Clemens, according to The Hardball Times' Lee Sinins, set the all-time record in the RSAA (Runs Saved Against Average) statistic. What does that mean? ...
MLB Is Down With The Kids, Dawg
Major League Baseball last weekend hosted the second annual (deep breath) "Little League Urban Initiative Jamboree." There are countless things that are amusing about this. Here are a few:...
Jeter Rips The Lid Off
Following in the steps of Barry Bonds, Derek Jeter has now launched his own Web site through MLB.com. We've been making fun of Barry's site pretty regularly, particularly its tendency to use its position as Barry's Only Place To Talk To His Fans Without That Racist Media Standing In The Way to tel...
The Minor League War Zone
Rickey Henderson might be plying his trade with the San Diego Surf Dawgs, but his former team, the Newark Bears, are still playing their games in one of the country's worst hellholes. The blogger Extrawack went to a Newark game this weekend and came away depressed and terrified....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while hopelessly entangled in the volleyball net ... Suns unnecessarily extend tedium. Frank Thomas returns from DL, sparking White Sox to ... no wait, he's hurt again. Men attack each other with large sticks for two hours. No one is arrested.—Rick Chandler...
Rickey Does What Rickey Does, Baby
Surprising no one, Rickey Henderson rocked in his San Diego Surf Dawgs debut last night. We honestly would lose our collective minds if Rickey made it back to the bigs; we think we would just follow him around, like Phish or the Grateful Dead or REO Speedwagon....
Today in MLB Blogs
Today's MLB Blogs home page is actually sort of jarring. It features a rouge's gallery of mugs of club broadcasters, all demanding that you join their mother site. It kind of reminds us of the final scene from Return of the Jedi — spectral images of heroes from the past, standing together and smili...
Without Updates, Bonds Falls Back On Baby Pictures
Well, we suppose it's better than showing Barry in a hospital smock....
The Only Way To Get Americans To Care About Soccer
They've tried starting a professional league. They've tried forcing mothers into drive vans back and forth between games. They've even tried having women take off their shirts when they score. And nothing has worked: Americans have better things to do that get into soccer. But Premier League team ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while your house was being trashed by that annoying Cat in the Hat... Alex Rodriguez hits 17th homer. Rest of American League enters therapy. Justin Leonard climbs to top of St. Jude leaderboard, threatens to jump. Ryan Newman's record lap wins Coca-Cola 600 pole. Did that sentence m...
Rickey Henderson: The Last Refuge Of The Tortured Cubs Fan
Things are getting so bad on the North Side of Chicago that Cubs bloggers are pleading for them to sign Big Bad Rickey....
Tom Seaver Discovers Fire
Join Us! Still not sure if you want to pay MLB Blogs.com $4.95 per month for the privilege of blogging about baseball on their site? (Hint: you can do it just about anywhere else on the web for free). Well, check out today's latest MLB Blogs shill, Tom Seaver....
Bored Red Sox Fans Complain Quietly, Shuffle Off
It's difficult to listen too much to complaints Red Sox fans have about their team right now, not after last year. They might only be a half-game up on the Yankees going into their three-game set this weekend, and they might have nightmares about Jimmy Fallon, but they still aren't allowed to so m...
And You Thought The Baseball Prospectus Guys Were Nerdy
Because cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's and Robin Williams have all been cured, scientists are now tackling the big issues: How To Hit A Baseball. (Because you know these dorks were cut from the tee-ball team.) In an article in American Scientist magazine, three eggheads explain the physics of baseball,...
Derek, Meet Barry. Barry, This Is Derek.
It gets lonely out there in cyberspace — even for megamegamegastars. Barry Bonds pioneered the art of the MLB-hosted huckster Web site with , and that trail was blazed for ... Derek Jeter. MLB.com announced late Wednesday night — gotta hit the news cycle! — that Derek Jeter has launched DerekJeter...
Colin Powell Set To Be Marginalized Again
This is what President George Bush did to Colin Powell: He saw that he was an extremely popular public figure; gave him an initial high-ranking, visible position (Secretary of State); did all the real maneuvering behind his back (with Dick Cheney); waited until he needed his public persona the mos...
Bonds Finally Pees In The Damn Cup
For all the suspicions and assumptions made over the years, they finally did something to Barry Bonds yesterday they've never done before: They tested him for steroids. ESPN's Bonds Groupie Pedro Gomez — realize that this guy has done nothing but follow Bonds around for months — reports that sever...
About Last Night ...
Things you missed after being cast adrift by the mutineers ... Heat evens series with Pistons 1-all: All you've been able to talk about at work today is Dwayne Wade, which is odd, since you were fired from that job in March. Liverpool wins Euro Club Championship. AC Milan loses when Scott Norwood pe...