In case there is any doubt that the Baseball Hall of Fame is stumbling into irrelevancy, consider this. Jack Morris will probably get elected to the Hall of Fame next year. 2013 ballot newcomers Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will not. I’m not here to reopen or continue the grating debate about Morris’s candidacy. I’m [...]

I’m sick of those obnoxious holier-than-thou baseball writers who voted to keep guys like Jeff Bagwell and Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro out of the Hall of Fame with the bullshit pretense that they’re taking a stand against cheating. News flash! Cheating’s been in baseball for a long effing time. In the ‘50s and ‘60’s, [...]

“Very violent sport now, isn’t it, baseball?”—Captain Hook Reading pavpl’s comment on my post Baseball and Steroids and Viagra reminded me of a scene from the movie Hook. Peter Pan’s son Jack is teaching Captain Hook and his pirates how to play baseball. During the game, a pirate runner takes off from first base. The [...]

There are very few certainties in life, but some things we can count on. We can count on death. We can count on taxes. We can count on Keith Hernandez sporting an amazing mustache. And if we watch any televised baseball game, we can count on seeing a bunch of aggrieved (and annoying) Joe Buck-ish [...]