jackdickey
Jack Dickey
jackdickey

Yeah, but no. Prevailingly speaking, baseball fans don't "like baseball"—I have never walked past a high-school scrimmage and found myself so overwhelmed that I had to watch. We like watching MLB games. And MLB games, as we learned to love them, are a particular product, one that's reliably 150 to 165 minutes long, Read more

I did also consider the possibility that Baker was a rogue interloper hired to destabilize the system. Could be worth exploring. Read more

A-ha. Although the weather on the scouting trips for player-development folks probably made up for the distance. Read more

(Yes. I think the needles are supposed to be the damning part.) Read more

After watching Hamrlik in Saturday's game, he better retire. Read more

Maybe I have pedestrian taste! Although the whole album, including the two you mention, sounded better to me than the rest of the band's catalog. Read more

And the best part: Nowhere in Posnanski's story is the word "NBC" mentioned! Read more

For what it's worth, the tweet bigotry (both racism and homophobia) seems pretty evenly divided between black players and white ones. Read more

The first period had 10 minor penalties. Amazingly calm by comparison. Read more