Coin Flip pitched well last time out, so what do you think, out by the fourth? Any chance of leaving here having gained ground means he has to win today. He has a decent 3.83 ERA in 10 starts against the Phillies, but is 2-3. No Ryan Church today. Still suffering the fallout from the migrai more
Sun Jul 06 12:02pm EDT
Ryan Church is not playing today. He s still feeling it from the migraines. He s not supposed to be out in the sunlight because the sensitivity to his eyes can trigger another one. He has shut it down for the day. John Maine reports there is still some soreness in his left arm, but feels good e more
Sun Jul 06 10:00am EDT
METS SS Jose Reyes RF Endy Chavez 3B David Wright CF Carlos Beltran 1B Carlos Delgado 2B Damion Easley LF Marlon Anderson C Brian Schneider LP Oliver Perez more
Sun Jul 06 09:43am EDT
For some reason, Mark Zuckerman s inclusion of Adam Dunn on his all-overpaid list (see post sub) really set your collective teeth a- rattlin . Let s go to the phones. Mark sez : As a Nats fan, just wanted to let you know that Zuckerman is not the only beat reporter in town that is wrong on Dunn. more
Wed Jul 02 12:08pm EDT
Okay, so Buster Olney wrote a piece called Yankees lack mystique of dynasty years . Nothing shocking there; I wrote about it a little bit a couple of posts down. Something struck me, though, as I walked away from my computer. Did Olney really write that you could tell the difference between the more
Wed Jul 02 09:30pm EDT
Several people have now written in to suggest that the reason Rick Reilly clumsily metaphor-ized bad spending habits with the Taco Bell Chihuahua is because of a massive Chihuahua-related conspiracy that reaches the upper levels of Disney HQ. The theory goes: Disney has forced all of its employees more
Wed Jul 02 03:07pm EDT
Regarding my previous post, how much water would a typical home have to pump into its own virtual dam in order to provide energy during a typical night while the water flows back out and through a generator? Are we talking swimming pool size? How big a container would you need to store the more
Fri May 02 11:42am EDT
In yesterday’s post I mentioned two Israeli companies that allegedly made big breakthroughs with solar power. Many of you noted that solar power is limited if you can’t store the energy in a cost-effective way for night use. I did some Googling to see what’s new in battery storage, and this pote more
Fri May 02 08:56am EDT
Yesterday I had one of those oh-my-God moments, the kind where I thought I could see the future. It started by reading some articles about the lack of a serious energy policy in the United States. The problem is that our politicians believe, probably correctly, that they can’t get elected if they p more
Thu May 01 07:59am EDT