Archive for April, 2008

Mike Hampton is an easy target for cheap injury jokes but you shan’t find them here. I’ve always liked Hampton and thought he showed guts signing a big-dollar contract with the Rockies — with the real possibility of getting his brains beaten in every fifth day.
Unfortunately the injury bug done bit Hampton again today as [...]

“Maybe,” Lyon lamented, “I should have just thrown it down the middle and let him bunt it.”

ShysterBall pretty much already stated my thoughts on this story, but when I read earlier today that Moises Alou said he wouldn’t have caught the infamous foul ball that Steve Bartman presumably kept from his glove in Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS, I imagined Bartman hearing the news on the TV or radio (if [...]