Well, it’s not going to be dull:
 
Joe Girardi thought back to when he replaced Mike Stanley as the New York Yankees’ catcher in 1996, Joe Torre’s first season as manager. “I remember walking into spring …

Not the Sox themselves — and congrats to the team and its fans, by the way — but Charles P. Pierce on Slate.com, who sours an otherwise  serviceable season overview by taking the obligatory slap …

Steven Pinker on why we curse.
And following a link from PCJM to an exhaustive Halloween-candy review, I found on the same site “The ‘I Don’t Like It’ List,” which had me rolling. “DaaaaAAAAAAAAAVE!”

Has the Fenway PA guy always sounded like Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons, or is that a recent development?

Hi Sars,
Now that my beloved Sox will have to face off against Colorado, I’ve been thinking about how tough it will be for them to play there. It’s started an internal debate about whether or …

Finally getting around to my daily baseball-blog reads…
 
Bronx Banter on the possible line of succession (Davey JOHNSON?Wow).
 
Deadspin’s liveblog of the Torre press conference earlier.
 
Fire Joe Morgan makes fun of Buster Olney.You can’t go wrong with …

(“We need a hit, so here I go“)
So, Torre is out as manager of the Yankees. Miss Alli and Joe R and I talked about it briefly at the office today, and I said it …

For obvious reasons, I love collecting references like that, or hearing them on baseball telecasts.Tim McCarver went on a rant about small ball a couple of postseasons ago where he was like, “Nobody cares about …

Dear Sars:
 
I was among the faithful at the Stadium last night, who stayed past Kyle Farnsworth’s miraculous scoreless inning, only to watch Torre pinch-hit the meathead that used to star in those deodorant commercials for …

It’s all even in the NL East. Unbelievable. Kay and Leiter can’t get their heads around it; I have to wonder what Darling and Hernandez have to say in the Mets booth. …Well, I know …