Every so often, you'll read some jackass who has gone through Baseball-Reference, snarkily disproving an old-timer's fond remembrance of an event that probably didn't happen the way he told it. I love those guys. Now it's my turn! Except the old-timer in question is Takashi Saito, wh...

I’m late to the game on this, but I see that Vicki Iseman dropped her lawsuit against the NY Times in return for letting her lawyers make a statement, and the NY Times contends that they were not and are not apologizing while Iseman has told the Politico otherwise. You can read the original st...

Soap operas seem to be the topic du jour lately, so allow us to engage in this sordid tale. Jason Varitek, as we all know by now, is seeking a new contract, but no one wants him. His agent, Scott Boras, recommended he reject the Sox' offer of arbitration, likely costing him millions, and since t...

And now, putting shivers into executives and managers everywhere, the words, "let's do a reassessment." It's as predictable as Claude Rains' Captain Renault in Casablanca. Instead of rounding up the usual suspects , thought, new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will be rounding up the usual assessments. You kn...

Remember when Wired, and its associated websites, were about technology and science? I do. I stopped subscribing to the paper magazine a couple years ago — even though it’s only something like $8 a year — when I realized that I didn’t even bother to read it, most months. I st...

Matt Taibbi, a few years ago, discussing Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat: This would be a small thing were it not for the overall pattern. Thomas Friedman does not get these things right even by accident. It’s not that he occasionally screws up and fails to make his metaphors and images...

This is an odd winter meetings. There's not really that One Big Trade on which everyone is focusing (like the Santana fiasco last year), and the Red Sox for their part are involved in speculation on several fronts: Teixiera, catcher, shortstop, third base, outfield and starting pitcher. Can you ...

Glenn Greenwald has become one of the foremost media critics in the blogosphere that media figures actually pay attention to and this week he turned his attention to NPR. In his Salon podcast interview with NPR's Tom Gjelten, Greenwald's questioning about Gjelten's handling of blog...

Newspaper people like to think of themselves as good storytellers. But, lately, newspaper execs find themselves with fewer good storylines to share. In fact, Gannett -- the world's largest newspaper company -- is going to tell its official stories less often. Of course, we'll see interim announcemen...

The "circles" are dead. Long live the "circles." We know about the "circles" here in Columbia. We went through them in the 1990s. At The State. With Gil Thelen. It's not that we didn't like them. Something was needed to break the newsroom out of the old, hidebound model. But the circles with their b...