CC Sabathia allowed too many hits in an exhibition game against the Tigers on Wednesday. "I felt like I was throwing the ball pretty sound," Sabathia said. "But they put the bat on the ball. It kind of snowballed." All five runs off him came in the second, when Gary Sheffield hit the first of his tw...

Yankees SP CC Sabathia is off to a steady start with the Yankees. The big lefty allowed an unearned run and two hits over two innings Friday night in his first outing for the Yankees, helping them to a 7-3 spring training victory over the Tigers. Sabathia agreed to a $161 million, seven-year contrac...

Jeremy writes: The best thing about the triumphant return of Tiger Woods may be the new commercials! The new Nike Golf commercials are genius! I've seen 2 so far and laughed out loud at both of them. Both set in the locker room. One of other PGA players shaking their heads as a sign of the quiet, mo...

It was fifteen years ago that the House of Commons last abandoned its main business  because the  parliamentary family had been bereaved. John Smith's death was an unexpected shock in 1994. The death of Ivan Cameron  was predicted but it still evoked deep sympathy.  The s...

Every team comes into Spring Training with question marks. There’s the hitter coming off surgery, the one-time prospect who hasn’t yet developed, the aging veteran trying to hold on to the glory. In baseball, spring is the season of “if,� the time of year we take all of our questions, answer...

Hello All! Today is Day One of our Spring Training Coverage from Lakeland, Florida.  We have to thank Charlie's Dodge and Earl Brothers Transmission for making this possible!  We arrived in Orlando International Airport late last night and got to the hotel.  We had to be at Jok...

The news feed keeps getting skinnier and skinnier. We still don’t have any email, so most tips aren’t getting through. I’m kind of enjoying the hiatus, but I know what I’ll be facing when it’s over. It’s like going on vacation, only without the suntan to show for it… By the way, don’...

Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes (1982) Although it is very short and a trifle unsettling, this novel is a wonderful evocation of the extremes of love, encompassing adoration, indifference, desperation and infatuation in a similar way to Wuthering Heights, but with a 20th-century twist. It all end...

Steroids Decimate Baseball Pretty busy with business with not much time for blogging. However, with the story about Alex Rodriguez and steroids ring bust I thought I'd repost something I first wrote in 2004 that I think still fits today. The current steroids crisis has in effect decimated the credib...

I had complained that it was difficult to go through the 1,800+ band list on SXSW’s site and find what bands had been added and removed. A few hours later, a kind donewaiting.com reader (Jay Sutton) sent me lists of just the bands added and removed. He used computer magic. Silversun Pickups we...