Turn Black Friday Into Fan Friday

...game loss to the Lakers last year? - MLB Superstars DVD: The DVD, which features Pudge, A-Rod, Bonds and Clemens, claims that "this Must-Have DVD reveals secrets of MLB's top stars." ... Thinking. ... Giggling...

Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)

So many teams are sitting back and waiting for the completion of the Type A free-agent and possible non-tender markets that there probably won't be a ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

OTL: Field of Schemes?

It seemed like a feel-good story on the surface: A Cambodian refugee brings the game of baseball to his home country. It seemed too good to be true ... and perhaps it is.

Opening up the mailbag

After two days into the playoffs, we'll reach into the mailbag: Q: I'm a Tigers fan and now that it's over officially, I'm trying to look forward to ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 09, 2009

MVPs and LVPs, Cy Youngs and Yuks …

It's time to bid farewell to another season that was filled with highs, lows and so much in between. With that said, here come the awards.

Successes, struggles and sabermetrics

Baseball Prospectus analyzes the best and worst performances of the 2009 MLB season through its sabermetric lens.

Story | Conversation | October 02, 2009

Twins, Braves give this week a big boost

The AL Central and the NL wild card are the headline races up for grabs heading into the final week of the regular season.

The unique value of October baseball

As Buster Olney writes in the October 5 issue of ESPN The Magazine -- if you don't think playoff baseball is different, then, well, you're probably not a player, are you?

Story | Conversation | September 27, 2009

Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis

Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin wrote in an e-mail posted here Monday that Trevor Hoffman is the Cal Ripken of pitchers, in the way that he prep...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009

Giambi helps keep Rockies relaxed, rolling

Maybe it is Yorvit Torrealba who has earned the honor of wearing Jason Giambi's Golden Thong, after Torrealba's ninth-inning three-run double gave the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 12, 2009

Pittsburgh Pirates' Barry Bonds watches his RBI double in the first inning, Sunday, Oct. 11, 1992, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Pirates...

Players react to court ruling

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 9-2 vote Wednesday that federal agents violated the players' protections against unreasonable searches and seizures when it confiscated a list of players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

Braves need to make their move this weekend

Doug Pensinger/Getty Images Bobby Cox and the Braves are trying to stay within reach of the Phillies in the NL East race. By Buck Showalter, ESPN...

Baseball's week of U-turns

The baseball world has been a place of a lot of U-turns lately: If you pegged the Nationals for fewer than 40 victories in your office pool, well, yo...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009

A special kind of selfishness

...news of steroids use by some major star, like a David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi, Rafael Palmeiro or Mark McGwire, and the crosshairs of public scrutiny lock...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 31, 2009