It may be the middle of winter, but things are really starting to heat up in Texas.  I, of course, mean that figuratively, as in the rumor mill is heating up… not the weather.  Wait, what?  It is going to be 76 degrees in Dallas this Friday?  Wow, awesome.  That intro sentence totally works on […]

It wasn’t so long ago that it seemed like the only qualifications you needed to be an owner of a MLB franchise was to, like, totally be BFFs with Bud Selig or one of the other owners and have at least one credit card that wasn’t maxed out. But then the McCourts happened. And then […]

If there is ever a nuclear holocaust, the only thing that will survive will be cockroaches and Bud Selig.  I’m not that the commissioner of Major League Baseball is the exact same thing as a cockroach, but, let’s just say that there are some distinct similarities. The polarizing Selig had “promised” to hand over the […]

If there is one thing we can all agree that we love about sports, it is when players get hurt in bizarre and unbelievable ways.  For some reason, athletes just seem to be magnets for injuries induced by seemingly mundane activity.  Take for example the case of Dustin Penner of the LA Kings hockey team […]

Everyone has been waiting for weeks for the Cubs to trade Matt Garza and now… they still have to wait.  What they don’t have to wait for is the Cubs to replace Garza in the rotation as they look to have lined up his replacement by signing free agent pitcher Paul Maholm today. Financial terms […]

It was big news earlier this week when Joe Torre announced he had resigned his position with the MLB league office so that he could formally pursue an ownership bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers. This should be great news for Dodger fans.  Joe Torre would bring an instant sense of trust and credibility that […]

Arguing over who should make the Hall of Fame on this year’s ballot is fun.  It is also so passe.  Why spend so much time arguing about the past when we can spend even more time arguing about the present and future?  How about instead of pontificating on the credentials of some over-the-hill has-beens, we […]

The official announcement of who will be inducted into the 2012 class of the Baseball Hall of Fame is not yet official, but things aren’t looking good for Jeff Bagwell.  Despite a career that has led most fans to believe that Bagwell definitely deserves to enter the Hall, the early returns on the writer ballots […]

Some have feared the arrival of the year 2012, what with the Mayan culture predicting that it would be the end of existence and all.  Most other people though are sane and rational and are welcoming the new year with open arms.  And amongst that vast majority of the world’s population there is a very […]

The members of the AL West have already made a fair amount of history this off-season what with the Angels signing Albert Pujols to one of the largest contracts ever, the Rangers bidding the highest posting amount ever for a Japanese player and the A’s making unprecedented efforts to antagonize their fan base by selling […]

It has been a quiet off-season so far for uber-agent Scott Boras.  Aside from some unnecessarily contentious negotiations between the Diamondbacks and Willie Bloomquist, the most successful (and reviled) agent in baseball hasn’t really done anything.  But that is all about to change because as of today, Boras now has the entire free agent market […]

Poor Ryan Madson.  When the off-season first opened, it looked like he all set to get a big fat four-year, $40 million contract from the Phillies only to have them pull it off the table right when he thought they had an agreement.  Now, several weeks later, Madson finds himself jobless and waiting for a […]

You have to hand it to Kenny Williams, he really doing… something. With his latest move, he has given the White Sox rotation a healthy dose of stability by locking up lefty John Danks for five years at what is believed to be $65 million.  That is a perfectly reasonable amount to pay a 26-year […]

As you may have seen yesterday, the Royals signed shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt, a move that was roundly mocked by, well, everyone.  To be fair to the Royals, whoever ended up signing Yuni was going to be ridiculed, he is just one of those players that “informed” fans have come to loathe since he brings almost […]

After days full of speculation, about 60,000 puns and completely and totally unnecessary waiting, the Nippon Ham Fighters have finally accepted the winning bid in the posting for Japanese ace pitcher Yu Darvish.  And the winner is… the Texas Rangers! Yes, the same Rangers who tried so very hard to play coy about their interest […]