The NL Rookie of the Year Award race is wide open. Here are the contenders.

I got a threshold, here. I got a threshold for the bad karma my team can experience. Now, right now, I’m a race car, right, and the Rockies got me in the red. And I’m just sayin’, I’m just sayin’ that it’s dangerous to have a race car in the red. That’s all. I could […]

Speaking of fakery, check out this obvious Photoshop job. I know it’s a fraud because it’s a scientific fact that Bobby Cox was born into this world as a cranky 66 year old man with a protruding belly. Seriously though, nice work Jay Matt.

I realize that I’ve totally whiffed on the Bobby Cox story. It just fell through the cracks inasmuch as I was taken away from my computer yesterday afternoon and by the time I got to NBC this morning someone else had already hit it up. This being the Internet, it now kind of feels like […]

Chipper Jones recently dropped hints that he may not play out his contract. Could Bobby Cox be gone soon too? When asked if he would come back for a 25th season as the Braves’ manager next year, Cox would not commit one way or the other. “We’ll see,” he said. Anticipating a follow-up question, he […]

I don’t care about the Francouer precedent. I don’t care about Jordan Schafer. Put this guy down as the starting RF for 2010 and let ‘er rip, baby: Mississippi manager Phillip Wellman said Heyward is neither especially vocal nor timid. In a word, steady. “We’re always looking for weaknesses we can develop. In all honesty, […]

“That was a lot of fun. You just keep pounding balls into the gap. The one thing you don’t want to do is hit a home run. That’s a rally-killer.” — Jeff Francoeur, following the Mets big win over the Braves, continuing to fail to understand even the basic rudiments of baseball.

Jason from IIATMS just told me that he heard on XM radio that John Smoltz is en route to Atlanta today “for personal reasons.” One wonders if we’re going to have a retirement announcement or something like that shortly. Insta-take on zero information: if he retires rather than allows the Sox to DFA him, he […]

I like organ music. I like the Braves. Ergo, I like articles about organ music at Braves games: For the past four years, the Atlanta Braves had used recorded organ music for games at Turner Field, but it wasn’t the same. Fans heard the familiar, traditional sound of an organ, but without a living, breathing, […]

Everyone says baseball is fun, well, you know what? It is. — Greg Maddux, as usual, making something everyone else makes so difficult seem so simple.