Rob Neyer on ESPN.com and Pat Andriola on The Hardball Times speculate that Mike Piazza will one day sport a Mets cap when he’s inevitably inducted into the Hall of Fame. Their reasoning is based mostly on statistics and legacy,…
I’m not buying the New York Post’s claim that Derek Jeter is getting married on Nov. 5 on Long Island. Let’s look at the Post’s reasoning: Someone saw the name Jeter — no first name — in the reservations book…
A couple of interesting things from Omar Minaya at today’s roundtable discussion at Fenway Park: He tried to avoid it, but in the end he couldn’t help but mention Jason Bay in front of the fan base from which he’d…
Juan Gonzalez Tonight I’m posting what I hope will be the first in a weekly — or at least bi-weekly — feature wherein I go back to my film negatives and scan in photos I’ve taken since I got my…
After the Washington Post’s Thomas Boswell wrote a column with 10 improvements baseball could make, I went through each one and gave my thoughts. In its latest issue, ESPN the Magazine looks at 31 new rules for sports in 2010,…
SI’s Stewart Mandel tweeted this photo of Roger Clemens at the national championship game. I didn’t see one of Mindy McCready, though. The Longhorns could give USC a run for the equivalent of the Lakers of college football with all…
This year’s Hot Stove, Cool Music event features Mets GM Omar Minaya during the roundtable discussion at Fenway Park. It will be interesting to see what he has to say. (It will also be interesting to see what Bill Janovitz…
Sixty-three-point-four. That’s the magic number, 63.4 percent. Top that, and your chances of gaining access to a club many of us could only dream of entering are greatly improved. Seventy is even better. Seventy is a nice, round number, and…
After 22 seasons, Randy Johnson has announced his retirement. After originally planning a conference call for tomorrow, the Big Unit moved it up to tonight so as not to step on tomorrow’s announcement of the new Hall of Fame class….