Crime and Punishment

If you get caught stealing signs in baseball—the original baseball data theft—your baseball punishment is a fastball to the ribcage. If you steal second base when your team is up ten runs, you also get a fastball to the ribcage. If you steal another player’s roster...

The Road Ahead

Recently someone from my hometown got drafted and a slew of people—many i’ve not talked to in decades—came out of the woodwork, asking if I’d talk to the young man about what to expect on the professional journey. Short answer: Bad locker rooms, peanut butter and...

Fire Away

Firing John Gibbons will most likely change nothing for the Blue Jays. If you don’t already know this simple truth, then you are probably one of the fans out there who wants to be mad at something and you don’t really care what that something is. Yet, even if John...
The Flower Market

The Flower Market

Day one in India, over. Travel time to get here was about 36 hours in total with flight, layovers, and standing in lines factored in. I’m still jet-lagged, but here is what I can tell you from my short time in country: First, in India, size does matter. I mean...