Ed. Note: E$PN’s inboxes are flooded with emails from devoted fans seeking fantasy baseball advice. We get thousands of these emails a week — far more than our regular columnists can handle! So, voila! Welcome to the first installment of fantasy baseball advice on the new BBTN blog. And who better to be dishing out […]
Continue reading →Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Chief Justice Bob Watson. Please rise. Alright everyone, you may be seated. Let’s get right down to the matter before the court. Some of you may be questioning my interpretation of Seligian sentencing guidelines in the matter of Piniella v. Francona. Let it be known that my interpretation of […]
Continue reading →All right – you know who the f-ck I am. Welcome to BLEEP BLEEP. It’s my regular blog thing where I talk to you, the fans. Yay for me. I’ve got a half-empty bottle of Jack, I’ve got a glass full of ice, and I’m feelin GOOD for once. Gimme some g-ddamn questions! “Larry – […]
Continue reading →As you know, one of the bigger stories this past week was Alex Rodriguez. On Tuesday night, he hit three home runs and drove in ten runs. That performance but A-Rod near the top of the RBI charts in the majors – he has 26 going into tonight’s game, only one less than Cubs first […]
Continue reading →Gentlemen, it is truly an honor and a privilege to be contributing to this, your esteemed endeavor in electronic publishing, and I shall attempt in a most earnest fashion to contribute what value and insight I can to its pages. My only hope is that I can measure up to the range of analytical sophistication […]
Continue reading →What’s up, y’all? When “Baseball Tonight” asked me to write about baseball for their site, I was running wind sprints in Journal Square. That’s how much Rickey loves the game. It’s April, and he’s running around Newark like a chump. No misrespect intended to the rest of the Newark Bears, but Rickey Henderson is a […]
Continue reading →Howdy, folks. I’m Jeff Brantley, E$PN color commentator and regular BBTN analyst. Now that April’s heading out to pasture, I wanna take a look at what’s going on with I’d have to say is the hardest job in professional sports (besides being a security guard at a Yankee / Red Sox game) – being a […]
Continue reading →My big story of Thursday in the Bigs? Greg Zaun, maybe the best catcher in baseball right now other than team leaders like Mike Piazza and Mike Matheny. Oh, and Ausmus. Can’t forget Aussie. But Greg Zaun — and I’m not one to talk, but he’s getting up there! — hit his third home run […]
Continue reading →As the crisp breeze rolled in from the Pacific like a poisoned quail, the man grunted laboriously as his foot slapped down on the concrete, the echo sounding like the call of the aluminum bats they use to wallop ground-rule doubles at college campuses not far from where this ordinary man stands, his ordinary jaw […]
Continue reading →[Glad am I, Roger Angell, to join thee in thy noble enterprise. Glad, and thrilled, and humbled. To finally be logged on, after all this time; and to be asked to contribute to a ‘blog by my good friend Peter Gammons…well, it is humbling, and unnerving, and enriching. I shall endeavor — much like LaTroy […]
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