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The Reiter 50: Ranking Manny Machado, Bryce Harper and Baseball's Top Free Agents

Another reason why the market might prove cooler than once anticipated: the industry, as a whole, has become far less enthusiastic about ... but they could move Niko Goodrum to short, allowing for a r... read more

POSTGAME NOTES: Hudson stays hot at home; Crawford makes push for Minneapolis

So Hudson did what he does best, working the bottom of the zone and feeding his infielders a steady diet of grounders. He got 11 outs on the ground, five more via strikeouts. Hudson might not care for ... read more

What was your first?

So, what was your first? Please give a brief answer in the comments; she’ll be looking through them to collect the answers and collate the data. She needs the data by Sunday, so put down the flag and ... read more

Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

I know I'm being grumpy about this but, when I answer the phone and someone says "I got a missed call from this number" I have no patience and I think this kind of call-back is self centered, ludicrus ... read more

The alarm bells ring, but precious few heed them

The politicians and the media first heard the alarm bells ringing early one morning in October 1997 ... Washer said: He's under tremendous pressure. He's got a young child and a wife so we've got to t... read more

Southern California

A month or so ago, we caught up with Parker Coffin. He'd just been chased out of the water by a tiger shark at Rocky Rights. He'd gotten stitches in his head not long before this, evaded an avalanche ... read more

For God's sake, have Bryan Appleyard's articles made any difference to our lives?

Hey, hack journalists, have I got a great concept for you ... James Clerk Maxwell, estrogen analogs, Mars, Niko Tinbergen, Fourier transforms, or Joseph Priestley, and you know squat-all about any of ... read more

In which I disagree with Stephen Hawking

Apparently Stephen Hawking read my book, but not very carefully, because he thinks aliens will come here ala "Independence Day" * and eat up all our resources and move on. I disagree with him. I think ... read more