From time to time, I tend to write about Christ­mas music on this site, mainly because I enjoy the stuff (in mod­er­a­tion) and because it’s an inter­est­ing phe­nom­e­non. While music trends tend to go all over the place, with styles con­stantly chang­ing and tastes bounc­ing to what­ever the lat­est song in rota­tion is, Christ­mas music […]

Just a few hits here and there re: free agency and the Yanks. Check­ing out an Ask BA arti­cle and saw that Tony Graf­fanino, he of the .734 career OPS, is a Type A free agent. Since the Brew­ers offered him arbi­tra­tion, Mil­wau­kee could poten­tially receive a team’s first round pick in addi­tion to a bonus […]

When the Cincin­nati Reds were pur­chased by Bob Castellini, one of the first things that he did was to fire cur­rent GM Dan O’Brien and replace him with some­one that he hired. In this case, it was Wayne Krivsky, who was the top can­di­date to become Reds GM when O’Brien was hired. Krivsky came with […]

I started to post this over on the OTBL boards, but it got bloggy enough to pull it over here, since it’s bound to ram­ble. In dis­cus­sion over the Yan­kees win­ning the bid­ding for Japan­ese pitcher Kei Igawa there was a ref­er­ence to the Yanks not hav­ing any excuse for the lack of depth in […]