This doesn’t mean anything at all, but I find it pretty cool:

Since the beginning of divisional play in 1969, the Red Sox have never won a postseason series without winning three straight games. In 8 total winning series, they’ve taken the last three straight to clinch a victory.

1975: 3-0 victory in a best of […]

I promise this’ll be my last post on Barry Bonds for a while. But I had to throw something up, because as I watched Sportscenter’s coverage of home run #756 - which Bonds hit earlier tonight off Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik - they showed a clip of Gaylord Perry calling Bonds out for steroids. […]

One of the things that sometimes gets lost in the swirl of controversy around Bonds is that the guys that seem to collect most of the headlines - your Bondses, Giambis, Palmeiros and Sosas - are the superstars. But, of course, if the estimates of 50-70% of MLB players are to be believed, that […]

Two massive milestone home runs were hit on Saturday, and if you’re reading this you already know all about them. What’s interesting is that they were hit by, arguably in one case and irrefutably in the other, the two most hated men in the game of baseball.

The irrefutable one is Barry Bonds, who clocked […]

And of course, the day I write all that, it’s already out of date. Frank Thomas today became the 21st player in history to join the 500 HR club, doing so against Carlos Silva of the Minnesota Twins.

All of this has caused me to geek out in a major way, in order to answer […]

Recalling an earlier post, I want to make sure that readers are aware of the magnitude of the historical circumstances of the 2007 season, in terms of the home run milestones it offers. Here are the highlights:

Sammy Sosa, only a short time ago, became just the 5th player in history [...]

At some point this summer (most likely), Barry Bonds will hit the 756th homerun of his career, marking the official end of an era. When it happens, we will hear opinions from every corner on the new all-time home run record; most will take a fairly moralistic and doubting tone. I’m not entirely […]

It occurred to me as I left work that today is a very important date in the history of this blog: one year ago today, presumably as I tried to avoid writing some form of paper, I wrote my very first 12eight post (and then my second). Both were fairly boring. One year […]

I’m off to Fenway in a few minutes, but I wanted to share this fascinating link with everyone, from Maury Brown’s The Baseball Journals. Maury is a well-known baseball historian and analyst, the editor of Businessofbaseball.com, a prominent member of the Society of American Baseball Research, and a writer at The Hardball Times. […]

Congratulations to Mark Loretta on his first homerun as a member of the Boston Red Sox, a walk off, 2 run jack over everything in left to give the Sox the W in the game of the year to this point. Let it be said that Loretta has become - in just 13 games […]