Don’t know if it’s still conventional wisdom in baseball circles to define a player’s prime as more or less the ages of 28-32. Since conventional wisdom never dies, probably. But if that’s the prime — when you’re old enough to know better and young enough to successfully implement what you know — we lack prime […]

He saw his best days with the Dodgers, but those were long over.
He was available when few other pitchers were.
He pitched for a different team every year of late.
He allowed an ERA well above his career best.
He hovered around .500 the year before we got him.
He signed with a contender that was just short enough […]

There’s throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if something sticks. Then there’s throwing spaghetti sauce at the wall, which just makes a mess.

Supposedly we’re signing Chan Ho Park.

Chan Ho Park? Really? The epitome of “bad free-agent pitcher signing”? (Hey, before he got hurt, Mike Hampton just looked really expensive.) The signed-sealed-delivered proof that Tom […]

In one of the scoops of the winter, Ben Shpigel noted in the Times last week that the Mets want to sell a lot of tickets in 2007. I also hear they’d like to win as many games as possible.

To be fair (even if it’s not as much fun), Shpigel’s angle was the Mets’ push […]

Major professional sports championships won in full or part at what is presently known as Dolphin Stadium:

San Francisco 49ers: 2
Denver Broncos: 1
Indianapolis Colts: 1
Florida Marlins: 2
Miami Dolphins: 0

HA! The Dolphins haven’t won a thing since moving into the building where they dominate everything but the bottom line of the competitive ledger, have they? Their badly […]