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After a little over 32 months writing about professional baseball here at Bugs & Cranks, it’s clearly time to stop. I still love this site and the people who make it great, so I may stick around and cover amateur baseball, but I’m done with pro baseball. Not that I was hedging my bets exactly, but I’ll also be writing about other pro sports elsewhere on the interwebs starting next week — look for an announcement early next week.
Back in the early 80’s, Howard Cosell decided to stop calling profesional boxing. A deeply moral person like me, Cosell based his decision on seeing one too many gross mismatches, and the corruption of the sport’s governing bodies, its meaningless titles and the people who profited from the obscenely...
As an undergraduate at West Chester University in the 1980s, Kevin Guskiewicz spent summers working at Eagles training camp. He even remembers meeting safety Andre Waters a couple of times. Neither could have known how their... more »
Based simply on numbers, you can make the case the Yankees look desperate here, calling up Andy Pettitte to start Sunday in the Bronx before he’s truly ready. But that’s a silly way of interpreting a decision they had to... more »
Alex Rodriguez has played in every game this season. Sometime this summer, maybe on an extra-humid afternoon or during the 20-games-in-20-days stretch the New York Yankees face in August, manager Joe Girardi will sit him.... more »
You want to take something meaningful away from Andy Pettitte’s first time back on a major-league mound in a year and a half? Then you go right ahead. Go ahead and break down Pettitte’s 6⅓-inning, 94-pitch... more »
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