Or: How the complicated calculus of who I root for has blocked the bliss

This might sound strange if you know that baseball teams I have rooted for have won World Series championships while I was rooting for them, but: I have never had the simple joy of rooting… Read full post »

Bobby Cramer made his major league debut Monday night. The left-hander started for the Oakland A's in Kansas City and was the winning pitcher in a 3-1 game, allowing a run on four hits in five and a third innings, with four strikeouts and a walk.

This is notable… Read full post »

A tweet from NBC reporter Ann Curry:

Here's the text you get when you "share" the video report Curry's tweeting about:

Overwhelming response to Dateline's poverty report

A development to the story we brought you about struggling families in Ohio who have been pushed over the edge

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I've been suspicious of claims that individuals or teams are extra special good with two outs ever since this episode in 2004, when the announcers on a random game I was watching talked up the Anaheim Angels' two-out run-scoring prowess as a measure of their character. They never gave up on… Read full post »

I've been playing catch with my 7-year-old son a lot lately. He's playing baseball for the first time, Pony League, machine-pitch, and while he's done some hitting in the past, he never really learned to catch or throw until he started playing in the league.

He can do it now, in a… Read full post »