Chris Marcil

I saw something in last week's SI Power Rankings that I keep thinking about: "On Saturday night, [Chipper Jones] became just the second Brave to have five RBIs in a game while 40 or older. The...

The second draft of my comments in the online Dodger Fan Survey.

The usual high-to-middlebrow Opening Day essay, but with just the good parts.

No matter who the winner is tonight, it won't be the Red Sox or Yankees*

Did you know: •  Theo spent 14.6 billion dollars to construct a giant tunnel-and-bridge system in order to speed fried chicken delivery to the Red Sox clubhouse; •  The DJ at the players-only...

How can MLB ruin the specialness of last night by making it happen every year? Some proposals.

Sales of baseball bats are skyrocketing in London. Three observations: 1. The bats are aluminum (or, as it’s pronounced in British English, “lorry”), which must appall traditionalists. 2. ...

Any chance we can get Joe Buck and Tim McCarver involved in the News Corp phone hacking scandal before Tuesday?

Story in the LA Times today about Carmen Fanzone, 70s-era utility infielder for the Cubs by day, professional trumpeter by night.  Despite his name, he is not the inventor of corporate-themed...

The only rival to the All Star Game, in terms of the disproportion of the “Buildup To Event/Satisfaction From Actual Event” ratio, is Christmas. Of course, the old timers will tell you that...

Say what you like about Vladimir Shpunt , but the Dodgers have sucked since they let him go.

Me:  So what do people love more than baseball itself? Marketing Guy:  Bobbleheads! Me: Wrong! Marketing Guy: Wrong?

Marketing Guy:  Unfortunately, our team is underperforming --  Me:  "Underperforming"?  Your team is "underperforming" like a meal of rotten meat eaten with a broken-tined fork while watching a...

Me: So here's my idea – Every time the team wins, it donates $10,000 to the Al-Qaeda Dream Foundation. Marketing Guy: What?!   Me: It doesn't have to be the Al-Qaeda Dream Foundation. It...

I thought Jeffrey Loria specialized in Modern Art, not Old Masters!*

Why not log on to mlb.com and buy him the Baseball’s Lost Innocence Figurine Set? It’s a timeless collection of horrified fans, each representing a different era of increasingly implausible...

Does anyone else (besides Mark Grace) think it’s weird that there’s a youth baseball tournament called Slumpbuster?

"God Bless America": Can Major League Baseball wrap itself in the flag without getting it dirty?