Joe Posnanski

This is a personal message to my good friends, New York Yankees fans. I’ve always had a lot of respect for you folks, really. I don’t like the Yankees, naturally, but I like you. You provide the biggest sports stage in America today. Broadway of Baseball. All that. Yankees fans, to me, in general, tend to be fun and brutal and smart. Some of my best friends are Yankees fans, and I get a huge kick out of you. I like the ... Read More

The improved Kansas City Royals -- and they really are improved -- have scored 63 runs in 19 games. That’s barely more than three runs per game, which is horrible. It’s 11% fewer runs than the Minnesota Twins, who have scored the SECOND fewest runs in the American League. It is 19 fewer runs than the disappointing Detroit Tigers. it’s is 35 fewer runs than the division-leading Chicago White Sox. It puts the Royals on pace to score the fewest runs in ... Read More

So, the Pozcars votes are in, they’ve been counted, and today we can officially announce that the Pozcar for hottest television wife ever goes to ... nobody. Yes, those beautiful TV Wives are now finding what great baseball players have long known -- it’s HARD to get 75% of the vote. I know people (including me) are always griping that unparalleled players like Willie Mays and Hank Aaron and Ted Williams did not get voted into the Hall of Fame unanimously. But thinking ... Read More

Scott Raab’s concession speech came in at roughly Midnight Central Time, a few hours after his beloved Cleveland Indians bullpen blew another game. This time it was Raffy Perez giving up the game-losing single to Justin Morneau. Of course, you cannot blame pitching when you lose 2-1 to the Minnesota Twins and manage just six hits against Scott Baker et. al. In any case, he wrote: I've bowed to vox populi and conceded the contest. I'm grateful to you for the fun (and the ... Read More

We will repeat the warning: The following has LOTS of swearing. Lots. Really. Swearing and some rather unappealing imagery and swearing and ... really. I’m telling you. We are proudly (and somewhat bizarrely) refereeing a swear-off battle between two of America’s great writers, Scott Raab and Pat Jordan. If you are offended by profanity, notably personal insults or men hitting other men with metal folding chairs, I strongly suggest that you skip this post and all other Swear-Off posts, as they only ... Read More