Howard's slide-step hurting the Phillies
Buster OlneyThe great thing about the postseason, an evaluator noted the other day, is that you always find out what the real weaknesses of hitters are (or at lea...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 02, 2009
A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia
Buster OlneyThe old friends pitched against each other in the first game ever at new Yankee Stadium back in April, and then afterward, CC Sabathia took Cliff Lee ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009
Tigers, Twins and my award picks
Buster OlneyCarl Pavano seemed almost out of breath Sunday night, naturally, at the end of a day in which he and the Twins had won a game they had to win, after t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009
A "Major League" move by the Padres
Buster OlneyIf you're looking for a CliffsNotes version of what has happened in San Diego, just flip on the movie "Major League." To review the events of the pas...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 03, 2009
A slimmer Kung Fu Panda is needed
Buster OlneyThe Giants lost again Saturday and will soon be eliminated, and in time their focus will shift to 2010, as John Shea writes. Pablo Sandoval will like...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 27, 2009
Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars
Buster OlneyIt is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee St...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2009
Baseball could soon lose a giant
Buster OlneyBobby 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...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009
The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix
Buster OlneyThis time of year, teams begin to include information in their media dispatches about their various candidates for major awards. The AL Cy Young Award...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2009
A somber celebration in Detroit
Buster OlneyErnie Harwell will chat with his extended family tonight, from a baseball field in Detroit, and Al Kaline has a pretty good idea of what he will say. ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 16, 2009
Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis
Buster OlneyMilwaukee 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
For a night, Penny is prime currency
Buster OlneyMike Krukow, half of the Giants' broadcast team, said it best about Brad Penny in the seventh or eighth inning of the pitcher's debut with San Francis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2009
The value of waiver warfare
Buster OlneyA friend of a general manager accepted an invitation to watch a game from the GM's private box this season, thinking how much fun it would be. The exp...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 02, 2009
Inside another great Colorado run
Buster OlneyThere was gleeful jumping and running and hat-tossing and a pig-pile kind of thing, and this was all taking place about 1,500 miles away from the Litt...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 25, 2009
Painfully true stories of injury cover-ups
Jerry Crasnick, ESPN.comBrett Myers recently had to set the record straight about his eye injury, reminding Jerry Crasnick of nine other infamous injury cover-ups.
Story | Conversation | August 19, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...his first 27 games of the season, Noah averaged 3.1 rebounds and 4.2 points."Richard Griffin of the Toronto Star: "Certainly on the basis of his astounding, league-leading 5.44 assists...
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