“Baseball is a better game for the fans when you have two starting pitchers engaged in a duel, rather than each pitching five innings and turning it over to a long series of interchangeable relievers.” – Bill James
                         

I was watching an interview the other day with Hall of Fame pitcher Fergie Jenkins.  He was talking about his workload as a …

God damn.  What good genetics have to be in those offspring. Brandy Halladay is, of course, the perfect woman and I believe Roy Halladay was created in a lab Ivan Drago-style.  Don’t be lazy, don’t be crazy – sign those kids TODAY!

Such winning smiles.

With the All-Star break upon us, it is a perfect time to take a breather from the trials and tribulations of the Big Club and examine what is happening down on the farm.  Let’s do some prospecting! 

Noah Syndergaard – GCL Blue Jays (Rk) 

The Blue Jays’ 38th overall pick of this year signed quickly in order to being playing pro-ball as …

For a few hours for a summer, we think we know them.  These young men in multi-coloured caps, playing the game of boyhood before our eyes.  Do they play for us?  Or are they performing the ancient demands of their decorated bodies?  They wear the names on their backs.  But they wear costumes designed a century past.  Of gentlemen meeting …

Sometimes I feel like I will never stop.  Just go on forever.  Until one fine morning I will reach up and grab me a handful of stars.  Swing out my long lean leg and whip 3 hot strikes burning down the heavens and look over at God and say

How about that?