Honest Wagner

Here's hoping that the New Year finds you happy, warm, and well-fed. This is probably my last post until next Tuesday. I'm still on...

More weird and impressive news about our poised rookie .

In October 1936, the two New York teams were playing in the World Series . Lux Radio Theater, then considered the best and most high-brow o...

Please help Eileen name that tune .

Regular readers of the blog know that I can be impatient with fellow amateur Bucco writers who think they understand the value and potential...

John Perrotto reported last week that the Bucs might get involved in the Return of the Randy Johnson Trade. CNN/SI clipped his paragraph a ...

Rich Lederer has posted an interview with Bert Blyleven . Blyleven was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates prior to the 1978 season, and he hel...

Sweet. Stillers secure home-field advantage throughout the playoffs by pounding the crap out of the lowly cheapshot-artists/professional thu...

See you January 3rd. Feel free to amuse each other in this comments thread. Go Steelers. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.

True or false: Lloyd McClendon looks more than a little like Joe Liggins . More pictures here . No wonder I like him as much as I do. I...

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All hail Stink Night!

Dejan Kovacevic's interview with Kevin McClatchy continues . They discuss G. Ogden Nutting and other mysteries of ownership.

The team gets the Washington Post treatment from Camille Powell. Not much to see, but it's hard to tire of reading "the Dominant T...

Meyer says the Bucs can't win it all with a $50M payroll . A reader recommends that MLB cane and flog players who test positive for ster...

Six of them . I'm confused. How can they make a list of bowlers and not include Bettis?

Daryle Ward was great pre-thumb injury, so this signing strikes me as a good gamble. Power is expensive. There's a chance - maybe not r...

Dejan Kovacevic interviews Kevin McClatchy . The owner suggests payroll will cross $40M soon and generally says the right things about compe...

The Japan Times reports that Toshihisa Nishi will stay with the Yomiuri Giants . His agent, Scott Boras, attempted to get a major-league tea...

Patriots nation is in full sour-grapes mode . All that is laughably stupid. They lost to a two-win team on Monday Night Football . The loss...