Month: February 2017

About Dayton Moore, fist bumping Eric Hosmer and the Royals future Dayton Moore already has been enshrined in that imaginary Kansas City Hall of Legends, there with Len Dawson and George Brett, Hank Stram and Buck O’Neil, Buck Buchanan and Willie Lanier and Bobby Bell and Frank White and Tony Gonzalez and a dozen or so…

A few years ago — well, yikes, it’s actually more than 15 years now — a guy named Voros McCracken developed a fascinating and counterintuitive theory. He couldn’t help but think that while pitchers have firm control on some parts of pitching (walks, strikeouts and home runs) they have much less control, if any, on…

Two, actually. This is really fun. Let’s see if you can beat me. Small challenge: Try to beat my lineup and starting pitcher — with this caveat. Every player in the lineup and the pitcher must be active and born in a different country. So you have 10 players — 9 in the lineup (including…

Vote for the Baseball Oscars — the Oscar Azocars! Here is a little inside baseball on how a goofy idea comes into the world.

MLB.com: Anticipated rule could continue decline of IBB Not sure the headline got exactly what I was trying to say … point is I have no idea what the new intentional walk rule will do. I don’t think anyone does. It might not do anything.  

MLB.com: Is 300-wins club done adding members? We — most of us, anyway — spend much of our lives chasing round numbers. We look forward to them: 20th wedding anniversary;  40th high school reunion, age 50. We look back at them: Look at what happened 10 years ago, 40 years ago, 100 years ago. Athletes chase…

Well, it was sad to see that the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame did not name Lefty Driesell as a finalist this year. It was a little bit more than sad, actually. It baffles the mind. A couple of months ago, I wrote a bit Lefty’s extraordinary basketball life. The most common response I…

By now, we all know pretty much where Goose Gossage stands on just about everything. — He believes baseball used to be better. — Like … way better. — Steroids and steroids and steroids and harumph and harumph. — He believes the kids today don’t respect the game like they should. — He believes players…

Nostalgia is an odd emotion. It’s odd because nostalgia doesn’t stay in its lane. It makes perfect sense to feel nostalgia for happy things in your life, happy things that will never come around again. It makes sense to feel wistful and sentimental when, say, you go back to your old college or high school…

In an effort to squeeze in as much nonsense as possible into one episode, Michael and I break down Field of Dreams, discuss the proper way to cut a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, argue if it is morally OK to cut fruit before eating it, draft utensils, invent a new name for the most…