There was a memorable scene (among many) in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where the two protagonists (Robert Redford and Paul Newman) were being tracked by lawmen:
Butch Cassidy: Ah, you’re wasting you’re time. They can’t track us over rocks.
Sundance Kid: Tell them that.
Butch Cassidy: Who are those guys?
Heading into the summer months here [...]
By Sal Marinello
A quarter of the way through the 2008 baseball season power numbers are down and a lot of players are struggling. It’s the lack of steroids and growth hormone, stupid!
Doubles are down. Triples are down. If you extrapolate the numbers using the 25 percent of the schedule that’s been played so far, Major [...]
By Rebecca Glass
This is not a topic that will appease many. Some will consider it downright blasphemy.
Heroes, after all, are supposed to be immortal. They are supposed to be more than human, faultless, blameless, and incapable of aging past their prime.
For over a decade now, Derek Jeter has been more than a hero to [...]
By Rebecca Glass
Over on Pete Abraham’s blog, the most recent post has commenters talking about the possibility that Yankees’ prospect Alexander Pope may one day pitch to Jesus Montero.
By Alessandro Nicolo
This article first appeared here in 2005.
I used to watch ‘This Week in Baseball’ quite a bit in the 1980s - the Golden Age of Montreal Expos baseball for some. Others believe it to be the 60s and 70s were the Golden Age -which would make the 80s the Silver Age I suppose. [...]
By Rebecca Glass
We celebrated Jackie Robinson yesterday, and the breaking of the color barrier.
The importance of Robinson cannot be overstated.
There was one barrier, however, Robinson could not break. No one speaks about it, because half of the time we forget it exists. You wouldn’t know it exists, anyway—not if you looked at the mix of [...]