The baseball world is buzzing about ESPN’s recent decision to not renew Joe Morgan’s contract for Sunday Night Baseball after 21 years. Many are wondering if this has anything to do with Morgan’s near-legendary dislike and distrust of modern statistics, as satirized by the now defunct blog “Fire Joe Morgan.” Joe Morgan was singled out […]

Considering baseball is one of the most popular sports in the Spanish speaking world, it’s a shame the language is getting butchered left and right.

I get really tired of all these ESPN “analysts” who don’t seem to know anything about any teams outside of the two eastern divisions. Do they even watch west coast games at all? Are they already asleep on the East Coast by the time the West Coast teams play? What’s been really annoying about the […]

So ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight” and ESPN.com have started pushing Buck Showalter’s plan for realigning baseball.  But if you take even a minute to think through what Buck is proposing, his plan makes no sense at all! Even setting aside the most glaring flaw, which is that Buck’s plan proposes contracting two teams as if that […]

While reporting on the story that three members of the Nippon Ham Fighters baseball team has been diagnosed with swine flu (including former MLBer Terrmel Sledge), ESPN makes a mistake that’s all too common. For the last time, they are not the Ham Fighters. They are simply the Fighters. Nippon Ham is the company that […]

Step right up, get your Saturday afternoon reading right here! First, Baseball Prospectus Unfiltered has a must-read interview with Chili Davis on being the only Yankee to get a hit—and a home run, at that—in Pedro Martinez’s famous, 17-strikeout game in Yankee stadium from 1999. Home Run Derby has the sad-hilarious (sadlarious?) pictures of some […]