Can I write about baseball for a moment ( Read more... )

• As Mom and Dad continue on the road to responsible environmental stewardship/hippiedom, the chickens have been joined by more animal friends: 1,000 worms for the compost bin Jason and I (but mostly Jason) built almost five months ago. Now instead of just dumping our coffee grounds and vegetable remnants outside, they'll be fuel for worm ( Read more... )

The three-team trade in December 2009 that sent Curtis Granderson to the Yankees and brought Max Scherzer (among others) to the Tigers was almost universally hated around these parts - mostly because Granderson was a very good and very likable longtime Tiger, and the players coming to Detroit were largely no-names ( Read more... )

• I went to Portland this afternoon to watch my two first-cousins-once-removed's first baseball games of the season. Cade jumped up to Pony League (ages 13-15) though he's not yet 13; Cal is in what I think is called the minors (ages 9-10) - whatever it's called, it's the first level where the kids pitch instead of the coaches. They were playing at ( Read more... )

As of Opening Day 2011, there were only 16 men older than me still playing major-league baseball. This number gets smaller every year and I DON'T LIKE IT! It's only a matter of time before I am older than every single major-league baseball player. Hurry up with your rehab, Jamie Moyer ( Read more... )

It's 1:30 on the first Saturday of the baseball season, every team has a game scheduled, and I'm thinking, "Oh! I'd better turn on TV and watch the Tigers ( Read more... )

There was a major-league pitcher in the 1910s named Earl Yingling. Rumors abounded that Mr. Yingling was a Chinaman, but based on his appearance and his denials, it is clear that he was no such thing. (He was born in Ohio and looks like a perfectly respectable and scrutable "American" in his pictures.) His Baseball-Reference.com informs us that, ( Read more... )

• Cleveland Cavaliers officially offer head coaching job to Tom Izzo

This is obviously scary news for MSU fans. I would love for Izzo to turn this job down and agree to a lifetime contract with MSU, and continue to go to Final Fours and beat Michigan for another 20 years. But I think I would be just as happy if he took the job, disappeared to the ( Read more... )

I realize this is silly, but after today's pregame festivities, I feel really proud to be a Tiger fan. No lives were saved, no hungry people were fed, and a guy who probably already has a really nice sports car just got another one, but what a classy organization, top to bottom ( Read more... )

Two sources of indignation on this June 2 ( Read more... )