Call me arrogant. Call me naive. Accuse me of shaking my fist at the gods. But I can’t help but smugly smile upon hearing the news that serial saving-children-from-burning-houses hero and future first ballot Hall of Famer Mark DeRosa has been...

Boy, oh, boy. How long has it been since old Skip posted a Comment of the Week? Days? Weeks? Months? YEARS!? Mea culpa, ladies and gentlemen. Like a phoenix rising from Joe Altobelli’s ashes, I have returned for this week’s… Few things make me...

So, the Winter Meetings wrapped up in Indianapolis yesterday, and the big move of the week was Jim Hendry dumping Milton Bradley on the- Wait, what? Whaddya mean, “He’s still on the team”? If I told Hendry once, I told him a thousand times that I’d...

If there was one thing that Jim Hendry wanted to accomplish at the Winter Meetings this year, it was to stuff one item from each steam tray in the lunch buffet into his mouth at the same time. If there were two things Jim Hendry wanted to accomplish...

The last time we saw our good friend Hitler, he was upset about Kosuke Fukudome, was missing Sammy Sosa, and was looking forward to a 2009 season filled with Kerry Wood saves. The 2009 Winter Meetings begin today in Indianapolis, and Hitler just found...

Every time I want to punch Jim Hendry in the fleshiest part of his neck, he has an offseason like this one, in which he has unloaded both terrible Aarons. There’s only one thing to do when you’re all out of Aarons. Put them in the Fukudome on their...