Defensive Indifference

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 […]

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 […]

Goose Gossage is almost certain to be inducted into the Hall of Fame when the announcement is made on Tuesday, and rightly so. Naturally, on the threshold of a great honor, Gossage took every chance to rip two current Red Sox players as much as possible, even though all the questions were about him and […]

Brandon Inge has stated his refusal to back up Miggy Cabrera in Detroit next season and has requested a trade to a team where he can start. GM Dave Dombrowski would be more than willing to move this black hole off his roster, I’m sure, but the trick will be finding another team to […]

Apologies for the sudden halt in posting the last few days; Andrew’s on Thanksgiving vacation and I’ve been spending way too much time playing Worldwide Soccer Manager.
There hasn’t been a whole lot of earth-shattering news, aside from the Bonds indictment, which was only surprising to me because I wasn’t aware the Feds were still going […]

MLB Player’s Union head, the always indignant Donald Fehr, is alleging that the recent GMs meeting was the scene of collusion between the teams with the intention of keeping free agent prices down, specifically in the case of one Alex Rodriguez.
“Over the past few days, press reports coming out of the general managers’ meetings relating […]