Feb 22, 2010 | Andy
The other day Major League Baseball announced that it was banning firearms from clubhouses and it was surprising. Surprising that they hadn’t done that…oh, 100 years ago, or so. But you knew that somebody would be pissed off about it. Even if a gun has...
Feb 22, 2010 | Andy
There’s this thing–it’s not a trend, exactly, more like a folly–going on at other sites (one, in particular) where they ask for their readers to guess what stats players will end up with at the end of the season. They average those stats and...
Feb 10, 2010 | Andy
Our good friend Al Yellon is the proud editor of a fine Cubs preview publication titled…well, actually that’s kind of what we’re confused about. Check out the cover over here. Either Derrek Lee’s head is covering up a pretty important pair of...
Feb 9, 2010 | Andy
Thanks to the hard hitting work of the Sun-Times investigative unit the world has a list of just exactly what the Cubs equipment staff have packed for the trip to lovely, destitute Mesa, Arizona. And, it leads to ghey-est headline we’ve had here since...
Feb 8, 2010 | Andy
The BBC’s Newswipe with an explanation of how to report the news. It’s pretty much exactly right. The only thing they’re missing is a segment on how to be like Chris Hansen and convince a pederast he can leave the house only to have him tackled by...
Feb 7, 2010 | Andy
Since I was a kid I’ve always looked forward to picking up The Sporting News baseball preview magazine. There’s a lot wrong with it, of course, it’s written way too early in the offseason to catch all of the transactions, their predictions suffer...