Stealing Signals: How To Win The AL West.

Angels 8, Mariners 2 - If you have a huge question mark in one of your starters who only threw 20 pitches (Ervin Santana in Game 2), and you still sweep the team only two games behind you when the series started, you’re ready to take a division by the throat.  Jered Weaver got his [...]

Don’t Fence Me In.

Only in Berkeley, folks. Only in Berkeley.
You may have heard about the tree sitters on the Cal campus’ Oak Grove area, near Memorial Stadium. They’ve been there for well over half a year, protesting a plan to tear down the old trees.
This wouldn’t be anything more than your usual fodder for Berkeley hippie jokes except [...]

College Football Is Back.

And I couldn’t be happier, despite the fact that you may have noticed that I have written no previews, done no polls, etc. Why? I think there are plenty of others in Blogfrica who are much more obsessive (EDSBS, The Hawkeye Compulsion, The Wizard of Odds, Journo Rock, RUTS), and have the time and knowledge [...]