Baseball And Philosophy 
Why Derek Jeter’s Lousy Fielding Deserves the Gold Glove
The Case for Jeter’s Gold Glove Nobody votes for who lead the league in home runs. Nobody votes for who had the most strikeouts. The numbers tell you that. Fielding stats... ...read more
Why the Lying of Roger Clemens is Worse Than Living in Pittsburgh
Here’s a parody of a debate over crime between a liberal and a conservative. Conservative: Blame the criminal. Liberal: Blame society. Here’s a parody of a debate ov... ...read more
Manny Existing Manny
Manny Ramirez returns to Fenway Park tonight, after being traded by the Boston Red Sox to the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 31, 2008. Despite Manny’s immense popularity over... ...read more
Is Stephen Strasburg the Pope of Washington?
Stephen Strasburg Announced his Presence with Authority Fairness is when the same rules apply to everyone. Greatness, in the minds of some, is deserving of special treatment.... ...read moreUmpire Jim Joyce’s Bad Call Ruins Perfect Game, Turkish Flotilla, Gulf of Mexico, All Hope
It is a time of bad calls. Israel made a bad call this week when it took the bait and violently boarded a flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip. British Petroleum has continued its... ...read more
Omar Vizquel is a Platonic Category, Apparently
In the 1990 comedy My Blue Heaven, Steve Martin joked that the difference between a pregnant woman and a light bulb is that “you can unscrew a light bulb.” This past... ...read more
George Will’s Marxist Theory of Baseball
Sports fans tend to be Republicans. One could be forgiven for thinking that Pulitzer Prize winning conservative columnist George Will has given them their manifesto. Will’... ...read more
Clay Buchholz Controls the Universe
A liquid conforms to the shape of its container; it succumbs to outside pressures. But Boston Red Sox righthander Clay Buchholz remained solid Tuesday night against Toronto; he ... ...read more
Is David Ortiz a Zombie?
After a morbid start to the 2009 season- hitting .188 through 49 games- Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz returned from the dead to lead the American League in homeruns from June 6 ... ...read more
The Five Books of Nomar
More than five years after he was unceremoniously dumped by the Boston Red Sox at the 2004 trading deadline, Nomar Garciaparra signed a ceremonial one-day contract with his form... ...read moreFollow Us
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