…And I love pennant races, not that we really have any this year except in the AL West, and even there both the Angels and Rangers are walking rather than running. No, I hate September baseball because of the expanded rosters. Monday’s Orioles-Yankees game was emblematic: with football-sized rosters, ...

CC Sabathia: Power-Pitching Megafauna (AP) I really should stop being amazed by CC Sabathia, but you have to understand that I lived through Ed Whitson, who for you folks that are younger than me was kind of the first version of Carl Pavano. Pavano was apparently physically incapable of pitching well ...