The Pastime

The brilliant folks over at Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency have dug up some interesting clauses in the new contracts handed out to free agents this winter.
(Hat tip to David Pinto.)
I think Royce Clayton’s might be my favorite one:
If he finishes the season with a batting average above .220, the Blue Jays pay him an extra […]

After writing my controversial opinion about players from the Steroid Era being selected for the Hall of Fame, I’ve received a lot of feedback. I’d like to address some of that here, since it raised some excellent questions.
“Ed” commented that:
Other eras that had statistical jumps in pitching or hitting did so on a physically even […]

Thanks to JLaff over at AN, I’ve seen the future, and it has armpit stripes.
The new batting practice jerseys for next year are out, and I’ve got to say… I’m glad they’re just BP uniforms. Here’s what I’m talking about:

I guess the white armpit is to highlight pit stains? I really don’t like the stripes […]

After an entire day (13 hours or so) of messing around with my site, it’s finally up and running on WordPress software. It was originally on Blogger beta, and moving it was a mind-numbing hassle. I had to deal with MySQL databases that refused to let me connect to them, 238 posts that didn’t especially […]