One recent morning, after several members of the Yard Work staff were fortunate enough to awaken in the Rancho Park condominium of Hideo Nomo (with a splitting headache, discrete scarring and a variety of unsettling memories), the site came into possession of what we believe to be a rare and important document. What appeared […]

Hi Boys! Sorry I haven’t been around lately. You might even say that I’ve been a bit of a ditz over the summer! Between deciding whether or not to divorce my husband and spoiling the kids to get them ready for the start of the school year, there’s hardly been any time for watching baseball! […]

I see Shea Hillenbrand, alone in the clubhouse, cold despite the heat still wafting from the now-abandoned showers. The rest of the team is on the bus by now, hushed chatter that waits only for the first fissures, that fracture of decorum – the sideways remark, the cocked-eyebrow inflection – that will open the gates, […]

I’m a busy guy. The people I work for, I work 80 hours a week. That’s how dedicated I am to improving their lives, making sure they get a fair shake. Every waking moment, I’m thinking about them. Which is why it surprised me that, even with everyone knowing what a busy guy I am, […]

Baseball is the greatest game on the planet. You know that as well as I do — that’s why you’re reading this website, that’s why you rush home from work to watch your favourite club play every night, that’s why you take your family to ball games on Saturday afternoons instead of renting a cottage […]

For this installment of “Fact or Fiction”, Yard Work is pleased to bring you two of its long-standing contributors — professional Red Sox fan Bill Simmons and resident science scholar Dr. Robert K. Adair. Let’s get to the questions!   1. Albert Pujols is the best hitter any of us will ever see. Adair: FICTION. […]

We’ve been winning a lot of games lately. This is a winning club. I prefer winning to losing, especially in April. If we win one more time then it’ll be nine in a row, which will be one more than the streak we had last October against LA and Houston. That might indicate that this […]

I’m writing this to tell you I’m sorry. The people in the Padres organization deserve an explanation. As for the fans in Fort Wayne of the Midwest League, who came to the ballpark every night to cheer me on as I racked up save after save, I owe you all an explanation more than anyone. […]

I’ve never been so busy in my life! Since the last time I wrote here, Kris and I were traded to Baltimore and you can imagine the impact that had on our lives. Everything has been so crazy. I’ve spent so much time shuttling between cities and running my online poker business, there has barely […]

Being in Torino has been such a positive experience for me. There is so much to do here. I’ve been drinking fantastic coffee, soaking up the atmosphere, and going for walks in the Olympic Village. The women are great, the athletes are great, the scenery is great. It’s all like, really fucking great. When I […]