Fiery Jerry Sloan had more than a litte in common with calm Joe Torre. (AP) Tying up a few loose ends on a late afternoon… • I’ll be a guest on the Fox Sports Extra show — that’s channel 5 and 705 here in New York, at least on Time Warner Cable — on Sunday night at 10:30 PM, ...

Tim Wakefield is one of the two active members of the last winning Pirates team and one of the five active members of the last losing Red Sox team. My post yesterday about the newly-retired Russ Springer having been the last active player to have played on a losing Yankee team proved surprisingly popular, ...

Only via a distorted view could ex-Yankee prospect Jose Tabata be considered one of the NL's best rookies amid a bumper crop (AP). The AL and NL Rookie of the Year results announced on Monday — which our man Cliff covered in detail over at SI.com — weren’t terribly surprising in and of ...

PEEKING THROUGH MY FINGERS I can’t bear to look, so I have to ask: Has Ian O’Connor yet published a scorching tirade against Carlos Beltran and Jose Reyes? Given that he tarred A-Rod for being questioned in the same investigation, these two pillars of the New York Mets should be guilty via the same ...