You got your gate in, you got your gate out, you got your fucking team a one-run loss in a barely-official game that would have been just as cheap a result if the Marlins had lost. You even manag...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/06/dear-red-sox-management.html
(Part 2/5. Much as I'd love to write about how fucking awesome the Red Sox are performing, the 500th sell-out festivities and that moment of child-like joy between Jason Bay and Bobby Orr, and th...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/06/dumbest-possible-purchases-from-rays.html
(This is part one of five of a planned American League East series. I'm all but certain this will be the funniest entry already, however.) With the staying power of "God Bless America" at the St...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/06/dumbest-possible-purchases-from-yankees.html
Talking baseball to my girlfriend because, well, someone had to hear out my excitement after the Red Sox completed another sweep with a stirring 4-3 counter-comeback, I explained the importance o...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/06/sigh-just-10-to-go.html
Staring frog. Staring Joba's mom.
And the list reads.... No, that's it, really. Chris Young of the Arizona Diamondbacks, who was also supposed to be much better than this. And nothing more. The un-qualifying list reads just as b...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/06/long-and-grand-list-of-qualifying-major.html
Francona came up with a good lineup to bring the offense briefly back to life. Here are a few not that good ones. The Get It Over With (aka, The Seppuku) 1. Ortiz DH 2. Green SS 3. Varitek C 4....
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/06/rejected-lineups.html
Red Sox, last 5 games: 2-3. Blue Jays, last 5 games: 0-5. Yankees, last 5 games: 2-3. Red Sox's position: 1st place, by 1 game. Struggling is swell when everyone else is. (Unless you like actual...
Don't even stop to contemplate where the Red Sox would be without Tim Wakefield. (Okay, fine, here's my thought: 3rd place, but only because I think Clay Buchholz is actually ready.) Just be than...
The Mariners have won 3 of their last 13 games. 2 against the Red Sox. The Red Sox had the bases loaded and scored no runs. They had the third out of the ninth in their (Nick Green's) glove, an...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/05/west-coast-not-our-best-coast.html
I'd say it's not supposed to be this easy, Daniel, but I know it hasn't been easy. 2007 alone is the sort of season some top prospects never come out of, but you have, and goddamn if you haven't...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-time-it-took-me-to-write-this-title.html
Is it too early in the season to contemplate where the major leagues stand? Well, there are two answers to that, and neither is true. a) Fuck no! It's mid-May, and the Nationals and Orioles (ala...
What we know: --Xavier Paul is a-coming to the majors. Get excited, L.A.! --Manny claims this was a personal thing. --It wasn't a steroid. --He tested positive for it in Spring Training...and ke...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/05/another-empty-speculation-on-manny.html
Rays= Paper. Returning AL Champions, supposed to be good for years to come, not terribly good thus far. Loses to Scissors, and most other teams, but in spite of being but a paper tiger, covers R...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/05/orioles-are-hummingbird.html
A poor stretch including three of four against the Boston nine's Kryptonite (10 losses so far this season, 6 to Tampa Bay...enough said) seems like a good excuse to not discuss baseball at all. ...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/05/diversions-little-philipino-big-fists.html
--Gigantic, terrifying huge ballplayers (pictured above), including a fading shortstop with less range than David Eckstein, a vainglorious and (physically and mentally) wounded third baseman, and...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/04/sights-i-saw-at-new-yankee-stadium.html
I knew the Red Sox were better than their start, but I can't say I was sure we were going to make it to .500 in April. But a four-game winning streak squared that off, and the fifth has even brou...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-square-five.html
Apologies for being away a ways, all; just returned from a vacation in New Orleans that was...too good. I'm bitching and moaning at 39 degree weather in the Brooklyn mornings and wondering why...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/04/dont-die-just-yet-and-predictions.html
There's nothing I can plausibly add here. Except maybe to ask, does A-Rod know what happened to this guy?
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-you-seek-is-nowhere-but-turn.html
Manny Ramirez= Cancer. Wil Cordero= Lupus, or any other auto-immune disease that batters the shit out of you. Jose Canseco= Gigantism. Shea Hillenbrand= Kidney failure. Rob Deer= Severe f...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/03/center-for-papelbondian-disease-control.html
Everyone wants to be Bill Shea , if not Charles Weeghman. I was bored in a meeting, so I came up with some names for my new baseball league, the Galaxy League, so named for the dimensions it wil...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/03/35-possible-team-names-for-new-baseball.html
The World Baseball Classic was effectively born yesterday. All the things I hate about it proved their value, at least this once, as one of the more or less hopeless teams proved itself good enou...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/03/world-baseball-classic-it-matters.html
ITEM! The inevitable begins. I see a murder-suicide involving Dusty Baker one of these days. (However, the gunman is going to be Mark Prior.) ITEM! Baseball Prospectus and CHONE projections a...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/02/spring-training-quick-darts.html
Smoothing and spinning the hat I always understood, but why did you have to slam the hat, Jazz? That hurts your scalp, yo. Never understood that. Just for that, get out of my house. Twelve times!...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/02/evaluating-starters-starter-jackets.html
Being a good liar is all about being a good truth teller; Alex Rodriguez has failed to learn this lesson over a career where, no matter how he struggles, he's never met the credibility/authentici...
http://vaughnsbar.blogspot.com/2009/02/better-press-conference-alex-rodriguezs.html