I’ve been going to baseball games for 26 years. In that time, the closest I’ve come to a ball was losing a scrum for one during batting practice at Yankee Stadium.
TRADE OF THE WEEK "This will improve us defensively. We were concerned we were too one-dimensional. If we’re going to struggle to score runs, we’re probably going to have to do as much as we can to prevent them." —Billy Beane, Athletics GM, on trading outfielder Jeremy Giambi for utility player John Mabry "The message…