Baseball is funny. Use stats that require 3rd grade math and you're "smart." Use better stats that require 6th grade math and you're "dumb."

"He had a handshake agreement with management that they would renegotiate the contract instead of picking up the option and they went ahead and did it anyway. He’s pissed beyond belief."

Tex. asked Rays about Upton, part of off-season routine. No on-going talks. TB would need big return for talented CFer, even after down yr.

Ben Sheets may not try a comeback. "No one's heard from Ben," said Brewers GM Doug Melvin.

Liverpool today

Great show today! Let me know who you guys want to hear from next Sunday morning (players or scouting directors, whoever).

And then: That team that spent $50 million more than any other team, that team with three sure Hall of Famers and as many as four others, that team that bought Milwaukee's best pitcher and Anaheim's best hitter and Toronto's No. 2 starter and Boston's favorite Idiot and the most expensive player in the history of baseball and so on, that team will win the World Series, and spray champagne on each other, and they will tell you that they won because they came together as a group and kept pulling themselves off the ground and didn't listen to the doubters.
And then, if you are a not a Yankees fan, you will want to throw up. If you are not a Yankees fan, you are left hoping that next year the randomness of a short playoff series will get the Yankees and allow some other team to win so we can celebrate the hope of Opening Day. And that's baseball.

"...Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers, he was a good tipper and pretty funny. And he was a really good dresser."

The Astros have hired Red Sox bench coach Brad Mills as their new manager.

[The coaches failed to make] our points more compelling than their fat little girlfriends. Now their fat little girlfriends have some obvious advantages. For one thing, their fat little girlfriends are telling them what they want to hear, which is 'how great you are' and 'how easy its going to be' and we had a bunch of people who wanted to win the football game but nobody wanted to play the football game..........I don't know if I will be successful this week or not but I am going to try and there will be some people inconvenienced and if it happens to be their fat little girlfriends too bad.