Archive for February 2009

On Thursday evening I sat down for an audio interview with Rob Zeida of The Card Podcast. We talked about Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, obscure Atlanta Braves of the 1980s, blogging, herpes, Gaylord Perry and a lot of other fun stuff. The podcast can be found here (I’m episode 23). I’ll warn you, however: I […]

ESPN’s legal expert Lester Munson comes down on the Bonds’ appeal quite differently than I do. Regarding the prosecution’s chances on appeal: Their chances are good. Many legal experts were surprised at Illston’s rulings. The prosecutors offered clever and creative arguments for the use of their evidence. The major obstacle, of course, was personal trainer […]

No makeup date scheduled: And so the Barry Bonds saga rages on. With little end in sight. What once seemed like closure on the horizon — a perjury trial for baseball’s home run king set to begin Monday, nearly six years after the BALCO scandal first erupted — now has been put on indefinite hold. […]

We knew this would happen, but now we know what Illston is going to do about it: Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds’ former personal trainer and the government’s most coveted witness in the perjury case against baseball’s home run king, still refuses to testify under oath. As expected, Anderson, through his lawyer, today told U.S. District […]

A couple of links to outside articles and discussions I’ve recently done.

George Vecsey writes today about “the incredibly shrinking ballplayer.” There’s a lot of fun stuff in this article, but there’s a lot I’m skeptical about as well. So rather than sharpen some single point about it, I thought I’d change tack and just riff a little bit. Hey, it’s casual day: Out of the roughly […]

I’m an occasional source for Newsday writer John Jeansonne, so I take an occasional, ego-driven interest in what goes on at that paper. What goes on now? Probably the end of my reading of Newsday: Cablevision Systems Corp plans to charge online readers of its Newsday newspaper, a move that would make it one of […]

Pete has been agitating about this for a while, but now it’s official: The New York Yankees and Bank of America ended months of negotiations on a long-term, high-profile sponsorship agreement, fallout from the financial industry’s decision to accept aid from the federal government. While the sides never discussed naming rights to the team’s new […]

Manny has amazingly rejected the Dodgers’ latest offer, and now it seems that the Dodgers have had it with Boras: At 8:30 p.m. tonight, the Dodgers made the rather unusual move of issuing a statement that shows their exasperation with Manny Ramirez’s agent, Scott Boras: BORAS REJECTS DODGERS OFFER TO MANNY RAMIREZ LOS ANGELES — […]

TGIF, babies: Richard Barbieri’s this annotated week in baseball history puts Google Earth to a fantastic use. Dan Turkenkopf investigates whether pitchers can control how a ball is hit. I won’t even pretend to understand all that, but I do know that some pitchers seem to have every ball hit off of them rattle off […]