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Marchman Wants Willie Booted. Discuss.
May 2, 2008 – 4:27 PM | 7 Comments

I like Tim Marchman’s work; today, he’s saying it’s time to fire Willie Randolph as Mets manager. Faith And Fear In Flushing.com agrees, and it came up on Michael Kay’s radio show yesterday, although I …

Curveball
April 28, 2008 – 9:33 AM | 8 Comments

For all you old-school Mets fans, a Daily News interview with ’80s skipper Davey Johnson. (Thanks to The Hardball Times for the link; check out their weekly dartboard to see how your team is stacking …

Random pair o’ links
April 22, 2008 – 3:51 PM | 4 Comments

Comedian Doug Benson gave me a glimmer of hope for last season’s Last Comic Standing (until he got eliminated), but he’s a regular on Best Week Ever, and now he’s got his dope-umentary out: Super …

The Vine: April 4, 2008
April 4, 2008 – 10:00 AM | 9 Comments

Hi Sars,
I’m a librarian, and I’m trying to help a patron find 1941 baseball box scores — all of them, for all teams, including batting orders. I can’t find it online anywhere. Other than going …

“…Puns Escaped Unharmed”
April 3, 2008 – 10:38 AM | 3 Comments

‘Tis the season once again for headline fun with the word “bunting” — but while today’s does have a baseball subject, the bunting in question is not the effecting of an infield hit, but the …

Cue “Hallelujah Chorus”
March 31, 2008 – 3:09 PM | 23 Comments

It’s Opening Day, ladies and gentlemen, thank God, and even though the Yanks have already gotten rained out for the home opener, it’s an embarrassment of baseball riches around the dial right now — KC/Detroit, …

The 13th Annual Baseball In Literature And Culture Conference
March 26, 2008 – 5:35 PM | 7 Comments

I hope I can update in the next few days; if I can’t, it’s because I’m tied up with this. I’m sad that they slotted my panel opposite the one that’s discussing The Natural, but …

Reader follow-ups
March 7, 2008 – 5:49 PM | 6 Comments

Reader Alexis had this to add re: the Vine letter of March 4:
 

The case of “hard to underestimate” that you discussed in The Vine recently was investigated on the linguistics blog Language Log in 2004: …

The Vine: February 15, 2008
February 15, 2008 – 10:27 AM | 7 Comments

Dear Sars:
Maybe you can help me find a baseball book. I saw it a couple weeks ago in Barnes & Noble. It was a book about baseball, but specifically about the hidden rules or etiquette …

I miss Mattingly’s awesome mustache also
February 5, 2008 – 4:57 PM | 3 Comments

…but perhaps this is, as reactions go, a mite severe.