Slew of signings lie ahead
Buster OlneyThirty-nine more players were not tendered contracts Saturday night, so as of Sunday, this is the number of free agents who are looking for jobs, acco...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 13, 2009
I have to confess ...
Marc Silverman...Green and Gold. I took it personally when Forrest Gregg's teams would take cheap shots on Walter Payton, Matt Suhey, and Jim McMahon. I loved seeing the Fridge run for a touchdown against the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 09, 2009The annual Hall of Fame question
Jim Caple, Page 2It's December, and that means another baseball Hall of Fame ballot for Jim Caple to agonize over.
Story | Conversation | December 02, 2009Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)
Buster OlneySo 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
Owners, execs and skippers, oh my!
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotThe Hall of Fame's non-player Veterans Committee ballots...significant tenure had previously been elected. Why did Walter O'Malley deserve election? Because every similarly influential...
Blog | November 11, 2009Veterans Committee to vote Dec. 6
Associated PressBilly Martin, Whitey Herzog, Gene Mauch and Danny Murtaugh are among the former managers who will be on the ballot when the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee votes next month.
Story | Conversation | November 10, 2009Hermida's move sure to be replicated
Buster OlneyThe latest seismic rumbling probably hit the baseball landscape early Thursday morning -- probably before all the champagne-soaked Yankees reached the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009
Top 10 matchups of the LCS
Buster Olney...to start Sabathia in Games 1, 4 and 7. Pedro Martinez versus time. He is a future Hall of Famer and yet he will be a complete mystery when he makes the start in Game...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2009
La Russa may be leaving St. Louis
Buster OlneyNobody will know how the St. Louis Cardinals' season might have ended if the third out hadn't escaped them in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 2...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 11, 2009
Cracks in the AL contenders
Buster OlneyThe count was full, the bases were loaded and Brian Fuentes fired a fastball at the lowest part of the strike zone Wednesday night, and when home plat...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 2009
Lasorda portrait bound for Smithsonian
Associated PressHall of Fame manager Tom Lasorda will soon have his portrait hung in the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, alongside other Los Angeles Dodgers stars.
Story | Conversation | September 16, 2009Billy Butler: Hall of Famer
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotGritty & Clutch's J. Walter Fulbright headlines this post by describing Billy Butler as a Hall of Famer. As evidence, he presents Butler's doubles this...
Blog | September 11, 2009Chicago's finest
Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN.comGene Wojciechowski lists the 23 most important athletes in Chicago history.
Story | Conversation | September 10, 2009A Hall By Any Other Name
...have a hockey hall of fame without Gordie Howe or Wayne Gretzky? A Pro Football Hall of Fame without Walter Payton or Joe Montana? A National Museum of Play without jump ropes and crayons? The...
Blog Entry | August 24, 2009Rice swung and missed on Jeter
Buster OlneyOn a Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, I happened across a YES Network broadcast of Yankee Ron Guidry's 18-strikeout game against the California Ang...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2009
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