Anyone Want Joe Torre?  —  Not 30 minutes ago, I wrote about how Jim Tracy screwed himself by going blindly by “the book” and choosing to pitch to Manny Ramirez rather than James Loney.  But you know what makes baseball such an endlessly interesting game?  The fact that no two games …

Would You Have Asked?  —  The Yankees were staging a dramatic comeback against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.  They scored four runs in the ninth inning to trim their deficit to 10-9, and they had runners on first and second with no outs.  Frank Francisco, the Rangers' closer, was aching to get an out.

The bunt that drove us all crazy  —  If you want to read our indictment of Joba Chamberlain's poor outing last night, head on down to Joe's recap.  I'm not here to talk about Ol' Two-Out Run Joba.  I want to talk about bunting and why it's generally a very bad idea.  —  Baseball is a game played without a clock.

Nats sign Hernandez to ease burden on young arms  —  Not wanting any of their young starting pitchers to pile up too many innings at this early stage of their development, the Washington Nationals turned to an old friend to help get them through the rest of the season.