The other day, I received an email from reader Todd K in which he crabbed at length about Jeff Pearlman’s new book on Roger Clemens.I had just read in Sports Illustrated‘s baseball preview issue that …

Dear Sars,
I want to end a friendship without creating any animosity or ill feelings.I have been friends outside of work with someone I work fairly closely with, both in physical proximity and a lot of …

“A-Roid,” “A-Fraud,” it’s a tabloid field day around here.   Craig Calcaterra at Hardball Times has a good (and more importantly, calm) piece about the revelations, and the last few days of coverage.
If you demonize …

And it’s freakin’ hideous.
I don’t know why Pete ROSE of all goddamn people lives in Las Vegas, the gambling capital of North America, but if he’s going to live there, and he’s going to sign …

Don’t we all, Ms. Yoshida.   Don’t we all.
Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month …

I appeared on the show this morning to talk baseball; the archived version is here.   I fear that having to get up at 5 AM may have gotten the best of me in the …

As of right now, almost 7,000 students reached, and $47,500 and change.   $ and the Mysterians have done their work; we’re very close to the initial goal and almost halfway to Washingtomato.
Thank you so …

A reminder: Film Park Slope kicks off tonight at 7:30 PM (doors open 7:15-ish) with Ira Sachs’s Married Life, followed by an in-person Q&A with Sachs himself.   Series sensei Keith Uhlich asked me to …

It’s ambitious, the book — the subtitle, “How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit,” is indicative of the grand parallels Mitchell Nathanson intends to draw between the Phillies’ Keystone kollapse to the Dodgers …

Let me say right up top that this is a pretty arbitrary list; not every chewy name in baseball history made the cut. Generally speaking, I included names 1) longer than ten letters, and names …