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Curtis Granderson is a Big Tattletale

SportsCenter

Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images I betcha I need more eye black for the bright lights of Hollywood... The Detroit Free Press is reporting that T...

Blog | November 23, 2009

Q&A with Brandon McCarthy

Richard Durrett

Texas Rangers pitcher Brandon McCarthy chatted with me by phone Thursday night about his 2009 season, his offseason plans and goals for 2010. Take a l...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Friday Filberts

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...had the ballot, I probably would have left Carpenter off mine, too. And all those guys on TV and the radio and the Internets would be saying terrible things about me. I've gotten a...

Blog | November 20, 2009

Are teams really losing money?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...not. Everybody's fat and happy, and we haven't even mentioned franchises that own their own TV networks (not to mention all the other ways that teams hide revenues). I don't trust any...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Will October sked really be tightened?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...Starting in 2007, baseball added four extra days off during the postseason at the request of its television partners, shifting the World Series opener to Wednesday from Saturday, usually the lowest-rated night of the...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Greinke almost unanimous

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...Sports Illustrated, but you know what I mean). It was Greinke's name you kept hearing on TV and radio all summer. Early on, the only possible knock against Greinke was that he hadn't...

Blog | November 17, 2009

Monday Mendozas

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

Today's links were assembled, painted, and decaled. While wondering if there's even one brave National Television Analyst who will argue that Bill Belichick actually made the right call Sunday night. The CHONE projections...

Blog | November 16, 2009

Perhaps the offseason bar set too high, too soon

Peter Gammons

So much for the general managers meetings, which began five days after the World Series and 10 days before the free-agency period opens. They're reall...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009

Can we replace Gold Gloves?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

In the wake of the latest round of atrocities, Friend of the Blog Rany Jazayerli shows up with a welcome and constructive idea: This annual trashi...

Blog | November 12, 2009

NL Gold Gloves: 2 out of 9 ain't bad

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...statistic) but also dominated most of the sophisticated fielding metrics that don't usually show up on TV. The voters could have gone for Kevin Kouzmanoff, who made only three errors in 139 games. They...

Blog | November 11, 2009

Hermida's move sure to be replicated

Buster Olney

The latest seismic rumbling probably hit the baseball landscape early Thursday morning -- probably before all the champagne-soaked Yankees reached the...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

Bidding a fond farewell ...

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...baseball fan in the 1970s, here's how it worked ... Most of the games weren't on television, so we would listen on the radio. But of course that wasn't enough. If our team...

Blog | November 03, 2009

Revisiting that pesky TV camera

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...the outfield landscape at Citizens Bank Park changed. Major League Baseball and FOX Sports, owners of the television camera that Rodriguez hit with his fourth-inning homer in Game 3 of the World Series, elected...

Blog | November 02, 2009

Umpiring is better ... but not better enough

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...run across this, from Bill James' notes (subscription) upon recently watching a 1974 World Series game on TV: 2. The umpiring is bad, and the announcers don't say anything about it. I would speculate...

Blog | November 02, 2009

Kneejerk Reactions: Game 3

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...outings. Blown Call: Well, maybe. Rodriguez's long fly in the fourth inning certainly did hit a television camera, and that camera certainly was above the right-field fence. But if the baseball hadn't...

Blog | November 01, 2009