Hitting the cycle

I always love it when two of my passions collide, like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.But instead of peanut butter and chocolate, it’s baseball and bicycles. “Biker chic: O’s...

More Red Sox propaganda

Let me give you another example of the Red Sox propaganda machine hard at work. Peter Gammons (I know, big surprise) posted an ESPN Insider article on Friday in which he discusses the Pedro Alvarez...

Who wrote Bill Shaikin’s column?

The “still can’t let go” brigade has landed in the LA Times somehow with Bill Shaikin writing a story that wouldn’t have seemed out of place, like, a month ago. “The two...

Stark raving mad

ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark has a bee in his bonnet. I use that cliché purposefully, as his latest column chastising Dodger fans for cheering Manny Ramirez sounds nothing so much as an old biddy...