Filed under: Los Angeles , New York , Yankees , Dodgers , AL East , NL East , The Dugout Earlier this week, New York Yankees senior VP Hank "George" Steinbrenner came down like a decrepit stadium on the role of pitchers in interleague play , saying...

Filed under: New York , Mets , NL East , MLB Transactions Getting fired is no fun. As Jon Stewart notes above (via Baseball Musings ),it's even worse when your employer flies you 3,000 miles from your home and fires you at 3 a.m. Ow. Of course,...

F.O.B. (Friend Of the Blog) Will Carroll spoke to a foot injury expert about Chien-Ming Wang. With Will’s kind permission, here is what Dr. Philip Kwong of the Kerlan-Jobe Clinic said: “It is unusual to have both a Lisfranc ligament...

Quite possibly.  From Dylan Hernandez at the LA Times : The news went from bad to worse for the Dodgers on Tuesday, as they put Brad Penny on the 15-day disabled list and sent Hiroki Kuroda to Los Angeles to undergo a shoulder examination similar...

The Boston Celtics destroyed the Lakers last night, 131-92, en route to the 17th title in franchise history - their first since 1986. Congratulations. Once again, sports fans throughout New England can celebrate. Revelence? Bear with me here: The...

Just like a Toyota MR-2, only without the flashy hubcaps: Hiroki Kuroda will undergo an MRI for shoulder soreness he just confessed to (now?). "I would have liked to have been told sooner," Manager Joe Torre said of Kuroda, who the Dodgers signed...

I, along with many others who have already expressed their thoughts, am embarrassed and confused about what went down in the wee hours of the night. Many have used the word “cowardly.” The last time I heard that word thrown around this...

I guess that Joe Torre winning magic-rub off cream just needed a little more time to kick in. Shame. Randolph posted a record of 302-253 as manager of the Mets, good for fourth among the team’s managers in career victories, and second to only Davey...

Let's just say I thought that 3 a.m. firings were the kind of thing that James Dolan would do... At least Willie walks off looking like the good guy in this scenario. * Willie Randolph's tenure ends with him as the 4th-winningest walk-off manager in...

The Mets are getting hammered from all sides for the disgraceful way they treated Willie Randolph. On LoHud.com, columnists Sam Borden and Rick Carpiniello are writing about it on our new Faceoff blog. So check out the debate. Meanwhile, have you...

The fact that Willie Randolph was fired on Tuesday morning was not awfully upsetting. The team has clearly underachieved over the last four months dating back to last season. And while it certainly wasn’t completely his fault that his players...

There is a vacancy on the NL All-Star Team coaches staff. Add Joe Torre. If they don't have the guts to do that, add Piniella.

We find it fitting, after at least nine months of fervid speculation, Willie Randolph was fired as manager of the Mets at 3:30 a.m. ET . That's too late for the tabloids to slap it on the front page, which is just a tragedy in New York City; tabloids...

As a Mets fan, I’m embarrassed this morning, and I feel a little dirty. I understand why Willie Randolph was fired.  In fact, due to the time I spend talking to people connected to the team, I am probably aware of  why he was...

Wow, I'm kind of surprised and feel a little bad for Willie because of the timing. Why torture the man and make him fly to LA when they could have done this over the weekend? Did they think that by being on the West Coast we wouldn't notice? This...