I have to give all due credit to my radio co-host, Althea Pashman, for without her I would not know how much I am ahead of the curve.

Over the years I have written things others have touched on days or weeks later. You take a little pride in knowing you had an idea first. In recent times I have syndicated my columns to preserve what has now become more commonplace.

Knowing you have a $14.5 million dollar man in the bullpen to help you - especially when he's not doing it as a starter. What are the odds that Barry Zito will find his way out of troubles coming out of the bullpen anytime soon?

The Rays have been looking to expand their fan base but is Orlando and Port Charlotte overextending their reach? Ownership is going Star Trek, going where others have not… yet attendance at Champion Stadium Tuesday was less than desirable.

The 2008 Major League Baseball season is officially underway, and it is ironic that an obscure statistician from Kansas is making the news, one who was ridiculed for many years. Today he is a chief decision-maker for the world champion Boston Red Sox, having gaining notoriety throughout professional sports - and acceptance to his metrics continues to grow

This marks the end of a Dodgers era, the Dodgers will be moving spring training closer to home next year bringing an end to a rite of spring that many have fond memories of, and others revile. We take a look back at the history and the end of Dodgertown...

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On April 2nd 1975 Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn sent out a letter he wrote to the general managers of all major league baseball teams, rallying them to maintain a "unified stand" against allowing female sports writer's into major league clubhouses.

Columnist Greg Wyshynski finds one of his favorite players named in George Mitchell's steroid report, and examines what the report really means for baseball and its fans....

There are logistical problems. Parking problems. Ecological problems. IRL problems. Government problems. Voter problems. Problem problems.
Other than that, the Rays new stadium idea is fabulous.
Or is it?
Part of the $1 billion project depends not only the sale of the stadium and land where Tropicana Field currently rests to pay off roughly $100 million in bonds, but who will develop it and how.
Much is being made about what I call "Bays Ball Stadium" and how much it would mean by adding it to the downtown landscape. It is a beautiful if not breathtaking plan, worthy of waterfront placement - in say, North or South Carolina.

It was an accident. Really.
I just had a chunk of my house painted recently and as I was trying to reconstruct the displays I had from the early days of the Devil Rays, I had something in a pile I wanted to frame but never got around to it.
When I came to St. Petersburg a month before the Expansion Draft in November 1997, I wanted to learn as much as I could about how my marvelous new city finally got their hands on a major league baseball club.

With the Cubs on the brink of the playoffs, Jim Hendry wears the hero crown again. But the last two years, with the team a big disappointment, he wore the goat horns, asking why he didn't do more to improve the club. In this interview, he addresses the issue if his hands were tied by Andy MacPhail, just what Alfonso Soriano was promised when the Cubs signed him, his thoughts on Lou Piniella, and what player surprised him this year.

The MLB regular season campaign came to a close Sunday afternoon, but the 162 games played weren’t enough to decide the NL Wild Card representative. With San Diego losing a tough one at Milwaukee, they left the back door open and allowed the Rockies to attain this 1-game playoff by beating Arizona on fan appreciation day...

Barry Bonds, who passed Hank Aaron for Major League Baseball's career home-run record last month, said on his Web site that this will be his last season with the San Francisco Giants...

This is my response to Jesse Jackson writing into the Chicago Tribune and saying that Barry Bonds’ achievements should not be minimized
In last weeks Other Views column, the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveniently failed to examine all of the facts before asking the readers to pay homage to the feat Barry Bonds is about to accomplish. He constantly referred to the pre-1947 era, but Bonds is about to pass Hank Aaron’s record, not Babe Ruth...

To real baseball fans, Babe Ruth is the greatest home run hitter of all time. When he hit 60 home runs in 1927, he hit more home runs than any of the other (7) American League TEAMS. When Bonds hit 73 homers in 2001, every team in the National League out-homered him. Of course they did, it's simply not human for one player to out-homer an entire league...