Tête-à-Tête-Tête

I recently predicted that the Mets would win the Eastern division and that the Braves would win the Wild Card…but could I have spoken too soon?
The NL East is basically a 3 team division this year, the Mets, Phillies, and the Braves.
The Mets lost one of their best pitchers (Tommy Glavine) but managed to [...]

The Congressional Oversight Committe has drafted a letter that formally asks the Justice Department to initiate a criminal investigation on whether or not Roger Clemens committed perjury during the Feb. 13th hearing.
…Are they asking that Brian McNamee be investigated also? Nope.
…Could Brian McNamee wind up being investigated anyway? Possibly.
Good article and video from ESPN.com [...]

The next cornerstone for the future of the Atlanta Braves? Quite possibly.
David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal Constitution seems to agree with most everyone on the issue…except of course Baseball Prospectus.
The heartiest laughter in the early part of Braves camp came when some Braves players and team officials saw a website scouting report that characterized Yunel Escobar [...]

Associated Content released their 08′ predictions a little over a month ago…but a lot has happened since then.
Luke with the Sporting News released his predictions about the same time.
…Here are my picks for 08′.
NL Eastern Division:
1st place - New York Mets
2nd place - Atlanta Braves
3rd place - Philadelphia Phillies
4th place - Washington Nationals
5th place - [...]

Baseball great Roger Clemens and former trainer Brian McNamee appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to give, under oath, two completely different versions of the same story.
1. Should they have been there in the first place?
Well, maybe. When you consider that prior attendees have been Jose Canseco, Mark McQwire, Rafael Palmeiro, [...]

Generation may be the key word here…I am going to exceed the generation gap and actually go back around 40 to 50 years in some cases just to make this interesting.
This is an intriguing question. One that I do not think can be easily answered due to bias. Everyone has bias, …whether they are loyal [...]

The Minnesota Twins finally broke and traded 2 time Cy Young award winner and 1 time Gold Glove winner Johan Santana to the New York Mets yesterday for OF Carlos Gomez, P Philip Humber, P Kevin Mulvey, and P Geolis Guerra. The trade pends on Santana’s passing a physical exam and agreeing to a contract extension [...]

This is all just rumors so far. I truly hope that there may be something to this.
Mark is going to be a free agent at the end of this season and might just be the best 1st baseman in MLB right behind Albert Pujols. Everyone from the Yankees to the Red Sox are expected to [...]