Times scribe Jonathan Mahler freezes my distaste for Bill Simmons in carbonite — SEE WHAT I DID THERE?! — in just three grafs

It’s not that Fred Wilpon aired out specific players on the Mets in his comments to The New Yorker that bothers me. Rather, it’s all the things that the particulars of said airing-out say about …

It didn’t take long before I started fast-forwarding through the parts of Baseball Tonight that concerned the Bonds trial. The outcome wasn’t entirely without interest for me, but until I heard an actual outcome, knowing …

(“…Poot!”)
As much as I love spring baseball, because it’s baseball and thank God and can we all please stop talking about stupid college basketball please?, it does rain a lot in the spring, so I …

I took it on the road for Episode 3 — to God’s Little Acre, New Jersey, where friends of TN Mike “BSD” Dunn and Janine “J9” Jenik-Dunn rolled out a fantastic spread of peanuts, Cracker …

Spring training, will you be my valentine?
Pitchers and catchers report
A couple days ago, reader Jenn fired an “eeeeee!” across the bow via email, all excited that baseball is back.
Yesterday, a certain pocket-sized Stupidhead who’s getting …

The Squared Up Podcast returns at last! Our first 2011 broadcast features Jill Stempel, a.k.a. “Bean,” who’s responsible for my reversion to Mets fandom. We remain friends despite this. Heh.
Episode 2 is Mets-heavy, and topics …

It didn’t feel like an hour, but that’s how long inaugural guest Couch Baron and I blathered on about baseball in the first episode of The Squared Up Podcast. I’ll have a better handle on …

I have no idea how to call the Series this year. I want to say that it’s a short series so pitching becomes more important blah blah, but I have trouble calling it for San …

Hey, Ron Washington: put the bullpen phone down, and back away…slowly.
Great pitching, miserable hitting, thrills and grievances. We’re here for you. (Not you, Joe Buck.)