Defensive Indifference

I’ve been gorging myself all day on baseball, and despite Mother Nature throwing a wrench into the proverbial gears early on it’s turned into a pretty enjoyable day of games, with a couple going into extra innings. You know the baseball season’s officially underway when Eric Gagné blows his first save. Instead of […]

It was only a matter of time until everyone’s favorite blubbering idiot jumped into the ongoing Yankees-Rays spring training brouhaha. Mr. Hankie had this laughable suggestion for all you mid- to small-market to not-completely-money-engorged franchises out there:
“I don’t want these teams in general to forget who subsidizes a lot of them, and it’s the […]

Thanks to ESPN’s free insider trial, I have learned that Tigers slugger Magglio Ordonez is friends with Hugo Chavez, the president of his native Venezuela. From the article:
Some who played winter ball in Venezuela say they saw a lot of Magglio Ordonez on television with President Hugo Chavez. “He is my friend,” says […]

Apologies to the comic that I’ve never heard of who I saw on Comedy Central and stole the joke for that headline from, but I’m raging right now. Yes, Dusty Baker finally did it, folks. It took him like a couple of weeks and tons of scrounging amongst the refuse of the free agent market, […]

Wow.
“Red Sox Nation?” What a bunch of [expletive] that is,” [Steinbrenner] said in an interview with The New York Times’ Play magazine. “That was a creation of the Red Sox and ESPN, which is filled with Red Sox fans.
“Go anywhere in America and you won’t see Red Sox hats and jackets, you’ll see Yankee hats […]

Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick gets taken for the ride of his life.
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