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Instant replay must be expanded … immediately

Buster Olney

...place runs efficiently, swiftly, like clockwork. There is disagreement over a call, the umpires gather together and chat -- usually for no more than 10 or 15 seconds -- and then a couple of them head into...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 10, 2009

Exclusive chat with Red Sox prospect Jose Iglesias

Jorge Arangure Jr.

In late July of 2008, Cuban shortstop Jose Iglesias defected from his country's junior national team while playing in a tournament in Canada. For almo...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 25, 2009

Baseball could soon lose a giant

Buster Olney

Bobby Cox first mentioned walking away from baseball in the spring of 2008, and when word of this reached Gene Michael, a former teammate and longtime...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009

A somber celebration in Detroit

Buster Olney

Ernie Harwell will chat with his extended family tonight, from a baseball field in Detroit, and Al Kaline has a pretty...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 16, 2009

Venezuelan pitcher Sanchez stuck in limbo

Jorge Arangure Jr.

About a month ago, the Milwaukee Brewers put in a formal request to Major League Baseball to investigate Venezuelan pitcher Daniel Sanchez's age. Sanc...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 04, 2009

Troy's Bear shows his human side

Bruce Feldman

...Miss could confirm that Woods can be a pretty scary-looking dude. I had a chance to chat with him this week and was really glad I did. The story behind those rope-curl dreads...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 08, 2009

Signability still an MLB draft trump card

When the "Baseball Tonight" producers turned the mikes on for Keith Law and Aaron Fitt of Baseball America on Tuesday night and asked them about possi...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 10, 2009

Capping Blanton's hat smudge

...prostate exam for another decade or so -- what everyone wanted to talk about during my Game 4 chat was that big ugly smudge on Joe Blanton's hat. Don't worry: MLB is on top...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2008

Friday Filberts

• A question for other non-Yankee fans: How many of you were pulling for the Yankees to beat the Red Sox yesterday? I was. Two reasons. One, if...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 29, 2008

Bowker's wild trip to the majors

As John Bowker rode into his first day in the major leagues Saturday, he kept doing a mental equipment check, double-checking in his mind that he had,...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 15, 2008

Big money, or big risk?

The secret weapon of small-market and big-market teams alike -- front-loaded contracts -- has made it easier for clubs to sign young stars to long-te...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 08, 2008

Long-range plans in Arizona

Arizona general manager Josh Byrnes and president Derrick Hall have received eight-year extensions, as Nick Piecoro writes. To put this in perspective...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 21, 2008

How does baseball heal itself?

...a line behind the mound, waiting for their turn, and in the interim, some of them will chat about their offseasons. Then they will take turns covering first base, reminding themselves of the art of...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 15, 2008

Revisiting the Deion story

We are headed for a week filled with testimony, bloody gauze, the looming threat of perjury charges, and talk of Debbie Clemens getting injected in th...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 10, 2008

Wednesday Wangdoodles

...see more. • BP's Joe Sheehan offers his list of nine breakout candidates. In my chat yesterday, I said David Wright is going to be the best player of the next five years...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | January 16, 2008