By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The Times and dodgers.com both report that the Padres and Dodgers are near to a deal to get Greg Maddux back with the Dodgers. He's expected to make Tuesday's start at home against Colorado. It's unknown what the Padres will get in return, but if anything has been a constant in the team's late-s...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The Times and dodgers.com both report that the Padres and Dodgers are near to a deal to get Greg Maddux back with the Dodgers. He's expected to make Tuesday's start at home against Colorado. It's unknown what the Padres will get in return, but if anything has been a constant in the team's late-s...

By Moshe Mandel ….we get to see who the real fans are. Yankees fans have a bit of a reputation for being fair weather fans who believe it is their birthright to expect championships. As a fan who has grown up with the Derek Jeter Yankees, I have not known a season that ended prior to October. Many [...]

By Samara Pearlstein Friday brings the orange birds to town for a 7:05 pm EDT game. Should be Nate vs. Chris Waters. A guy named ‘Waters’ playing for Baltimore… I expect the Divine jokes to be FLYING for this one. Or maybe that’s not in the normal sports fan repertoire? I really hope it is. Go Tigers! Thank cats. Thank cat...

By Al Joe Mather tagged out at the plate after trying to score on a fly ball to Alfonso Soriano in the 6th Who's first to greet him? Alfonso Soriano Cubs celebrate the win on Friday Carlos Zambrano crosses the plate after hitting his 15th career HR

By Kurt Sox 10 Tigers 8 14 innings) Blown hold: Jeff Farnsworth Blown save after Placido Polanco hit a two-run home run in the top of the 14th: Joel Zumaya Team that blew another opportunity — for what, 4 this week? — by blowing a 6-1 lead: Tigers

By Clark Fosler Today we are back with the Authority’s monthly minor league All-Star Team. As a refresher, you can take a quick look back at June’s team and May’s team. Special thanks to Kent Ogle for the Kila Kaaihue photos. Here he is hitting what I believe was his last AA home run.

By SC The 2008 rivalry between the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles really started on February 8, 2008. But baseball moves fast. Luis Hernandez isn't with us anymore, nor is the outstanding honorary Oriole in the Mariners bullpen, Eric O'Flaherty.

Filed under: Dodgers, NL West, MLB Gossip, MLB Media WatchJeff Kent is the type of guy who is primarily remembered -- I think, despite his likely HOF status -- for being the less surly teammate of Barry Bonds. Or a one time great fantasy baseball second baseman. Talk about a legacy.

By KLSnow But I've decided not to go that route, since Cub fans have been tortured enough. They've gone 100 years since they won a World Series, and there will be a World Series banner hanging in "Wrigley Field North" before there's one in the real thing.

Go ahead and admit it. Phil Garner is doing a terrific job. - Houston Chronicle

By GC “This is the best team in South Florida pro sports until another volunteers itself,” writes the Miami Herald’s Greg Cote of the Florida Marlins, “despite the continuing and sad lack of witnesses.”  And while the Marlins enter play this evening trailing the Mets and Phillies by a mere half...

By GC “This is the best team in South Florida pro sports until another volunteers itself,” writes the Miami Herald’s Greg Cote of the Florida Marlins, “despite the continuing and sad lack of witnesses.”  And while the Marlins enter play this evening trailing the Mets and Phillies by a mere half...

By kranepool Howard Megdal has a fine column today in the New York Observer on the Brooklyn Cyclones and the Mets top three draft picks RHP Brad Holt, 1B Ike Davis and INF Reese Havens. Megdal goes in to detail on Holt’s performance and I agree 100 % that Holt will be on a fast track through the organizations...

By metswalkoffs(noreply@blogger.com) I just noticed that if you include the World Series in your tally, Bill Buckner played in 162 "other" games against the Mets. That is the equivalent of a full major league season. Bill Buckner had 19 hits against Craig Swan, his most against any Mets pitcher.

By Signal to Noise Giambi's half-hearted not-really-an-apology got him leeway and a way back in with the fans after a purgatory spent in unproductive baseball hell. The Yankees orchestrated an entire campaign to get him in the All-Star Game; hell, no one even brings up his steroid past any more. Yet Bonds' i...

By Jeff Kallman ■ He can hit, too—CC Sabathia took time out from a complete game 3-2 win over Cincinnati Sunday to take Homer Bailey over the right field fence in the bottom of the third. Sabathia’s the first pitcher to hit bombs in each league in one season since the late Earl Wilson did it for the Detroit Tige...

By Leslie Monteiro He gave up two runs on six hits in six two-third innings. He could have completed the seventh inning with one more out of that inning, but Ron Gardenhire wisely took Perkins out and insert Jesse Crain, who got the last out of the inning. From there, Matt Guerrier and Joe Nathan did the rest.

By kdukat I read the other post with Kouz's comments and I guess I take stuff like that with a grain of salt. All of us at one time or another have gone to a bar after work and complained about our jobs, and to me, he seemed to be having a great time and he was very popular. I hope he wasn't serious in all of his com...

By eastbaysd We'd heard, on every single Padres broadcast for several weeks, that there would be several Padres' players bartending at EVT and Basic on July 9. This was for the Padres Foundation.So, we planned to go there. The place was pretty packed, but we got in okay. They raffled off an AGon signed bat, P...

By ToyCannon On July 4th, the Dodgers proved once again that they can have a hole in the middle of the lineup but as long as they have a hot hitter they could still garner a hard-earned victory. With Andre Ethier playing the role of Rafael Furcal as the hot hitter, the Dodgers were able to overcome a lousy Low...

By Greg • Our house — in the middle of 126th Street. For every Mets fan who gnashes teeth at the sight of a vertical swastika in the stands at Shea, just remember: we started it. Well, kinda. Philip Bashe on the Yankees' sublet years: "Because of Shea Stadium's accessibility, bored Mets fans got into th...

By Beth You know the injury bug has hit the Sox hard when players are getting hurt between innings. Sure, Danny Haren can make a diving play to catch a bunt from Coco, landing on his pitching arm, and still hold the Sox scoreless for several innings afterwards. But let Mike Lowell and Kevin Youkilis tr...

In Ex-Orioles news, Erik Bedard left his Friday night start after the third inning with back spasms.  More bad luck for the woeful Mariners. Score: 8-5 Orioles, (Box Score) Next Game: @Milwaukee 7:05pm Fri, Cabrera (5-2) vs. McClung (4-3) AP Photo)

By Ian Casselberry That "rematch of the 1984 World Series" stuff doesn't seem too pertinent when the Tigers and Padres faced each other just three years ago, does it?  Maybe that's a reason to dislike Interleague Play for some.  For me, it's a reason to love it.  I think it's great that we get to see the Tigers pla...

By Jeff Kallman When Blaine Boyer handed Ken Griffey, Jr. first base on the house with nobody out, two runs in, a man on second, Brandon Phillips coming up, and the Reds with a vintage opportunity to put a Sunday afternoon game way beyond the Atlanta Braves’ reach, you could almost hear the bristling around...

By Al Anyway, Elia is now 70 years old and he wants to make amends. As a result, he has created "Lee Unplugged", a website on which he says: The only thing that bothers me is that I would never want to destroy the love and what the fans of Chicago are to the Chicago Cubs. I mean, God knows. If there's one pur...

By Steve Keane I hate when I get like this. It’s only two games in the beginning of the season but I’m so fucking mad about the Mets losing to the Braves. It doesn’t matter who is in those uniforms, the Braves could bring up the whole Richmond Braves team put BRAVES on their chest and the Mets would drop 2 of 3 to th...

By Al When the Cubs were eliminated I posted the tickets for sale on Stubhub. As you know, on October 15 the Rockies completed their four-game sweep of the Diamondbacks and thus, game five, which was originally scheduled to be played on October 17, was cancelled.

By Al Meanwhile, many of the Sox fans in attendance were railing against Ozzie Guillen, who (reportedly; I didn't hear this myself) was railing on the air this morning on the Mike North show about North's criticism of his (Guillen's) lineup selection: "Who are YOU to criticize ME," Guillen al...

He also turns 34 in January; if he falters this September, is it a harbinger of pennant races to come? With a young core of Cain, Lowry, perhaps Hennessey; $9 M allotted to Matt Morris each of the next two years; and a chance that Sanchez and Lincecum will be viable contributors in '07, do the G...