interesting article from baseball prospectus floated across espn insider this morning: One area in which the present really shouldn't compare poorly with the past is in legend-making. How the story gets told might be different, but we still have heroes on the diamond whose reputations transcend what...

There are plenty of crazy hobbies out there on the Internet. Some people collect Smurf figurines. Others make homemade Tron costumes. Certain folks spend too much time putting together homemade trailers for a Thundercats movie.  Then there's Scott Mortimer of Merrimack, N.H., who's on a strange...

My friend Joel called me on Christmas Day to inform me of the passing of Eartha Kitt (more on her below). Shortly before New Year's Eve, I began compiling a list of notable and not so notable celebrities who slipped the mortal bonds of Earth during this past year. Here's what I came up with: Johnny ...

Okay... I'm not much on year-end lists and as far as I'm concerned, New Year's Eve is amateur night, but this year burned me out, so I'm writing off this damnable 365, this annas horribilis, with a "good effing-riddance". The only good out of this year was that none of my (many) friends or (few) fam...

In thinking about the year soon to pass, I can't help think about some famous people who died that had some significance for me, such as Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Everest the year I was born, or Suzanne Pleshette, who appeared on a TV show ending screwed up b7y our local affiliate. An inordina...

O.K. -- This will come as a surprise to most of you, but I am not upset that the boys did not make it to the postseason. Frankly, I was secretly relieved. To be honest, I was exhausted by the end of September. Between the All Star Game, and all the hype about the final season at the Stadium, I was t...

AND THEN THERE WERE THREE ...as in just 3 games left at Yankee Stadium. After this series against the Birds of Baltimore, it's off to the wholly unnecessary new Stadium being built just a Ruthian blast away from the current cathedral of American sports, set to be demolished next spring after every l...

Paul Rogers singing for Queen. Brett Favre in a Jets jersey. Chris Russo on Sirius.  All sorts of unthinkable shit occurs in this crazy modern world, and as such, the New York Post’s Joel Sherman wonders, will the New York Yankees someday be “the organization that made offers Torre and ...

I've not talked much about baseball lately as I've been distracted with some weirdness in my professional life. Nonetheless, I have been watching Yankee Baseball. The ballclub has been active on the tradewire of late. It seems that they have addressed some glaring deficiencies. Before I begin discus...

Topps has plundered and riffed on their own back catalogue since 1980, when they released a baseball set that looked eerily reminiscent of their set from 1974. 1980 also saw the release of Topps Basketball, itself a riff on the 1978 baseball design. (You could even make the case that the plundering ...