Papelbon and Cheesesteaks, Executive of the Year Stuff and Kemp and His...
Papelbon to the Phillies was announced officially today. (Do I use those eyes too much? Well, of course I do. But then again, I am so bemused most the time that they are the only way to express my...
View ArticleWarning: The Post Contains Moving Images. A Whole Lot of Them.
Sometimes, when I am especially sleepy, I get tempted to turn this blog into a GIF bonanza. Baseball-themed GIF bonanza, that is. Hey, it could totally work! For instance: The Winter Meetings start...
View ArticleThe 2011/2012 Offseason, or In Which the Marlins Grab Players and Everyone...
I am in a much bouncier mood than I’ve been in a long time. Because there are no boxing tweets in my Twitter timeline! There are actually tweets about baseball! There is actually baseball news!...
View ArticleLet’s Illustrate the Winter Meetings
Norman Rockwell knew what he was talkin’ (er, drawin’) about. As always. I was all ready to do a GM round table event and then I saw this and realized it just said it all in one painting. So there...
View ArticleEugenio Bitterness, Name Battles and a Little Joey News
I didn’t like Andres Torres, at first. I saw him- perhaps a little irrationally- as Eugenio Velez’s rival and nothing more. Every game that Torres played was I game I wanted to see Velez in. After...
View ArticleWrapping Up the Winter Meetings
I am already going into post-Winter-Meetings-depression mode. That means dried apricots with whipped cream (very good) and staring dismally at the wall and pondering the meaning of life (not good at...
View ArticleA Word for Billy Beane and Five Things About 2012 to Get Excited For
I admit it: I do not know quite what Billy Beane was thinking with yesterday’s trade, which sent Trevor Cahill and Craig Breslow to Arizona. (Strategically done, of course, after the Winter Meetings...
View ArticleBrian Sabean is Not Tender
I have a feeling that if I got a dollar for every person who laughed at my little pun in the title, I would be… exactly as rich/poor as I am now. But there was a point, I promise. As Henry Schulman...
View ArticleHappy Eve-of-Winter-Meetings!
Hello, everyone! I spent the better part of today defrosting and cutting up frozen peas for my sick fish only for him to give me as near as someone without an eyebrow can to a quizzical eyebrow and be...
View ArticleNot Your Mother’s Winter Meetings Round-Up
(I don’t know your mother. No promises.) The Winter Meetings are coming to a close and the path for the Giants has been surprisingly – eerily – straightforward? They leave Nashville with 2012 heroes...
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