Listen to my presentation from the 2018 Baseball In Literature And Culture conference!

Wow. WOW.
I feel bad for Braves and Sox fans, I do. God knows I understand what it’s like to watch a team floundering (although, when you give up hope of contending in, like, the 1800s, …

I hadn’t let myself dwell on it, because what good would it have done except to paralyze me, but a part of me believed I wouldn’t get to California, that I would end up towed …

A few, hopefully quick, thoughts on the Mets and the trade deadline here…
As Bean aptly put it in a text last night about the K-Rod trade, “Alderson is ninja.” I didn’t have any opinions about …

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 …

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 …

“So long, suckers.”
I’ve just heard on the radio that the Mets have officially let GM Omar Minaya and manager Jerry Manuel go. This had to happen, but it won’t change anything, because the problem is …