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I read about that, and wondered if maybe it was a weather thing - the rain was expected to be done by late afternoon, or something. The making folks wait a half hour after the final out i seven worse. I guess "poor timing" is what everyone will remember about this year's Mets season. I have...

The way I figure it, it's only a nightmare scenario for MLB's schedulers. For us, it's bonus high-stakes baseball!

Yeah. I have to admit, I'm kind of rooting for MLB's nightmare scenario in the NL - either both the Mets and Brewers get swept and Astros sweep, requiring a make-up game between Chicago and Houston and then (potentially) some kind of three-team round robin to determine the wild card, or the...

I'd just like to drop in and say I found the last hour or so of Sunday night's Yankees game nauseating and Derek Jeter to be his typically boring, attention-craving self, just so that it can be said. It's a real pity that there has been so little talk over the past few years about how Yankee...

I think the lack of cameras directly behind the pitcher has been because that would mean putting it right in center field and messing up the "hitter's backdrop". NESN has been using a camera there this year, and while I like it, a bunch of people don't. But, it's baseball and a bunch of people...

If this is going to be the main use for replay, it would make a lot of sense for the teams to install dedicated, non-movable cameras that point straight down the foul lines. Superimpose a line on the playback to make it really clear.

I don't know that it's particularly funny - the guy hits a bunch of homers. Of course, his was one of the botched ones that helped spur the move to replay. I noticed after Tuesday's dismantling of the Orioles, which included a pretty awful botched call in the Red Sox's favor, Jim Rice...

Why is that surprising? Baseball is their job and their compensation is tied to their results. How would you like it if your performance evaluations were tied to a system that is occasionally flawed in a high-profile manager, and some outsider said the system shouldn't be improved because human...

Of course, the IOC would probably insist on new facilities being built. That's how they roll. Not that I expect baseball to return to the Olympics, or really care - as long as MLB doesn't co-operate, Olympic baseball simply won't be played at the highest level. Since MLB has no good reason...

It's not a perfect comparison - Ruth, a singular force entering the prime of his career, was probably the single least replaceable player in baseball in 1919; a 36-year-old Manny Ramirez is obviously not quite at his level. Still, there are a couple of points to be remembered: The first point...

Oh, Ruth's behavior was far worse than Manny's - he would literally abandon the team to participate in barnstorming games.

Yeah, Manny's a flake and a headcase. I'm just saying that anyone who gets too happy about dispatching a talented but difficult-to-handle player should look at the history, as it's not generally favorable.

Depends when it happens. It will probably be ugly if it's before mid-next year, but I don't think Manny has managed to set himself up as a villain as thoroughly as, say, Roger Clemens did. I tend to think that nobody on the 2004 team will ever stay truly alienated. (And to any Boston fans who...

Do not make someone give you a grammar lesson about the purpose of the hyphen in the bolded sentence. The points are that (a) Manny is almost certainly not the only person to blame in this mess and (b) the stuff that has happened in the past couple weeks is puzzlingly out of character for those...

To be honest... There's a few jerks on the team. I mean, if Manny is getting in a fight with Youkilis over how Youk goes all Paul O'Neill after every bad at-bat, I'm with Manny on that one.

I don't really think "aloof" is the word. He didn't speak to the (English-speaking) media, but most of the time he was a genial, entertaining guy. The last two weeks or so have just been a train wreck, and I'm not sure who's most to blame - for all the weird shit Manny has done, the violence is...

No. The umpires, sure. :) What I'm saying is I want the game completely in the hands of the players. The umpires should have as little effect on the game as is possible. I don't think the interpretation of the rules of the game should be subjective, and I think 100% accuracy should be the...

I'd rather not argue at all. I'd rather baseball put the time and effort into improving officiating to the point where bad calls were unheard of and the game was decided completely by the actions of the players.

Obviously there will be a delay. However, since the umpires do a pretty good job in most cases, those delays will be rare - the expected demand is such that baseball figures they only need to add one extra umpire rather than thirty, as your idea of adding two umps per game would require. It...

Although, I read an argument the other day that the DH made the American league more like "classic" baseball than the NL - those crazy double-switches and lineup changes are the result of modern reliever usage, whereas old-timey baseball was more likely to have the starters stay in late. Food...

Please, instant replay involves giving the crew chief a cell phone and another ump (either back at league headquarters or, if the umpire's union negotiates well, in the press box) a DVR. As anyone who watches the games knows, you can see the relevant play replayed multiple times in slow motion...

I'm against it, for the same reason I was against Papelbon remaining the closer. :) If the Yankees have a pitcher that good, I'd much rather they get 70-odd innings determined by push-button managing (it's the 8th/9th and the 7-8-9 hitters are up - bring in the setup guy/closer!) than twice as...

Man, it is good to be a Red Sox fan, and looks like it will be for a while - second young pitcher in less than a year to pitch a no-hitter, each with a young position player making an excellent play to save it. Lester: This was the most delightfully un-Lester-like start I've seen from him. My...

The NESN feed was even better - Don and Jerry just lost it, and there was footage of the rest of the team in the dugout huddled around the camera to watch the playback.

Manny is awesome. I'm certain there will be plenty of articles tomorrow about showboating and showing up the other team, but in the meantime... Very cool catch. I'm going to have to record NESN's rebroadcast of the game tomorrow morning to hear Don & Jerry lose their crap.

Spoken like someone who has never been stuck behind a support beam or in one of those right-field seats that face the left-field wall. :)

He's playing Moises Alou's old position, right? Maybe there's something in the grass there.

Yeah, but I'm sure that you can look at just about every world series winner and find some sort of statistical aberration about them (No team has EVER won a world series after a more than 75-year drought! No expansion team has EVER won a world series within five years of being created! No team...

Well, they can wait until Friday, if you don't mind. :) I have to admit to being kind of amused by diagnosing "a lack of heart" (or, as the meme seems to be, that the team completely falls apart without Curtis Granderson). I firmly believe that winning creates good juju much more than good juju...

When else are you ever able to so directly communicate your feelings to someone like the President? It's a moment that's a bit uncomfortable now, but will probably be a great, illustrative clip in a documentary some time down the line. (Besides, you can be sure some people would absolutely...