Ugly anatomy of an AL-only draft

I was in for quite a surprise when I entered my first AL-only fantasy baseball draft of this season a few days ago. The numerous mixed league drafts o...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 29, 2008

Checking out latest one-year wonders

...runs, or Scott Podsednik stole 70 bases. How about Josh Barfield from as recently as 2006, or Brendan Harris from last year? Those weren't Erstad-like seasons, but didn't you depend on them...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 13, 2008

Hunter to take shoes to Africa

...program through a transition to Division I. IUPUI was 26-7 last season and lost to Oral Roberts in the Summit League tournament title game. Hunter took IUPUI to its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 24, 2008

Reds reign as kings of spring

The usual suspects come out of spring training as favorites to win this year: The Red Sox, the Indians, the Yankees, the Cubs, the Mets, etc. But if y...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 26, 2008

Early schedule tough for Red Sox

The Yankees of the Paul O'Neill years played with a unique confidence -- not a swagger, but a competitive arrogance; they went about their business wi...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 01, 2008

O's question Mitchell report

...vice president for baseball operations for the Orioles from 2005 to October 2007, said he thought [Brian] Roberts received the worst treatment of anyone in the Mitchell report. 'To me, he has the biggest complaint...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 17, 2007

Historic catching in fantasy so far

I congratulate Damian Miller for his efforts Monday night. It's not often you see a guy who entered a game -- more than three months into a season -- ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 03, 2007

Haren making adjustment

Dan Haren first made his mark amid the Cardinals' rubble in the 2004 World Series. Of all the St. Louis pitchers, it seemed, Haren was the one guy who...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 14, 2007

AL East spring watch list

I'll be in Florida later this week, attending the big party that is ESPN The Weekend, but I'm really hoping to catch a spring training game while I'm ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 27, 2007

Murphy speaks his mind on 'roids

Now that the media horde is gone, Sammy Sosa is back at work, writes Jan Hubbard, and everything is close to normal. Or at least it was before Dale Mu...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 26, 2007

Summer Report: New York Islanders

...several free agents, including forwards Mike Sillinger, Chris Simon and Andy Hilbert, as well as veteran defenders Brendan Witt, Tom Poti and Sean Hill. (Do they have something about defensemen with four-letter last names...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 25, 2006

Arizona is hoping to hear any day on Jawann McClellan's appeal to play immediately after he was unable to complete summer school because of ongoing gr...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 07, 2005

The strike-three call by Dale Scott looked pretty bad on replay. The count had been 1-2 on Richie Sexson in the first inning of Saturday night's game,...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 19, 2005