Bay vs. Manny

Decent chance we'll see this in the World Series.

Trading McLouth

Are we going to be reading about such things all winter long?

NFL week 5

Ever stay up really, really late on Saturday just so you could roll out of bed, Sunday, just in time for the 1pm kickoffs?

Lanny retires

News here at the Post-Gazette.

Steelers maimed

The Steelers are dealing with a lot of injuries.

Can they make Polamalu a two-way player? I'd like to see him run the draw. Or get some time on the offensive line.

Pedro goes yard

The P-G's Colin Dunlap was there for Pedro Alvarez's first Bucco dinger:

The power everyone spoke of perked up, when Alvarez hit a prodigious, no-doubter over the fence in right-center that travelled onto the property of an adjacent golf course.

Dejan's analysis and grades are in. Ronny Ballgame fails and will "surely will be shopped in offseason to teams that see more." Overall, the grades seem fair. If I had to bicker, Duke's C- seems too generous for his league-worst .304 BAA. J-Mike's Clutch doesn't outweigh his .228/.300/.382 line for a B-, and no way Nyjer's 91 OPS+ and striking out 20% of the time is satisfactory for a starting OF.

NFL week 4: Ravens at Steelers

Roethlisberger and Flacco run for their lives as the Rashard Mendenhall Era begins.

Game 162: Pirates at Padres

More Beer and Far More Beer at four.

Game 161: Pirates at Padres

Beer and More Beer at ten.

Game 160: Pirates at Padres

Snell and Beer tonight.

Game 159: Pirates at Brewers

Duke and Gallardo. Game on.

Duke going for win number 6.

Game 158: Pirates at Brewers

Maholm and Sabathia at eight.

Maholm is going for his twentieth fifteenth twelfth tenth win.

In other news, the Lions fired Dave Littlefield Matt Millen.

Pedro Alvarez, Pittsburgh Pirate

MLB and the union have settled their grievance. Pedro Alvarez is in Pittsburgh and his signing will be announced at a press conference shortly, Dejan reports. Welcome aboard, Pedro.

Game 157: Pirates at Brewers

Karstens vs. Bush at eight. The Brewers trail the Mets by one game in the wild card race, and have won nine in a row against the Bucs.

Meanwhile, testimony has been halted in the union's grievance hearing as the Bucs and Pedro work on finalizing a contract.

Alvarez and Bucs agree to new contract

Pedro and the PBC have agreed to a four-year, major league contract worth a guaranteed $6,355,000, reports the P-G's Dejan Kovacevic. Supposedly the contract will be signed pending a physical, which could happen as early as this week, and the contract would quash the pending grievance. All hail El Matatan!

NFL week 3: Steelers at Eagles

Game at four. Steelers should beware the staph infection if they get some scrapes in this one.

Game 156: Astros at Pirates

Oswalt and Ohlendorf at 1:30.

Game 155: Astros at Pirates

Jimmy Barthmaier and Scuffy Moehler open for Lynyrd Freakin' Skynyrd. Game at seven.

Game 154: Astros at Pirates

Snell and Wolf at seven open for Zambelli fireworks. Among qualifying NL starters, Snell is dead last in ERA (5.69), WHIP (1.83!), and BAA (.313). Must protect manhood.

Game 153: Dodgers at Pirates

Maholm vs. Kershaw. Bucs trail 2-1 in the bottom of the fourth.