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HELLO, 2018. The blog-of-feng has a new home (and a new name.)

AARON BOONE'S HOME RUN was the end of everything . His offseason injury was part of a providential start . * Edgar Renteria has made the...

AS THE CURRENT RED SOX SEASON limps its way toward ignominy and oblivion , the retelling of the “Greatest Comeback in History” is a remin...

MAY I HAVE THE PLEASURE of introducing you to Clark Griffith , aka "The Old Fox," Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, and pioneer...

BIG PAPI FINISHED HIS SEASON with a curtain call — following a bunt single . In a (mostly) meaningless final game, it was something to cheer...

WHAT'S THIS NOW, it's spring again? Whatever happened to the winter? Not to mention the fall ? Let's forget about all that nonse...

NOMAR GARCIAPARRA RETIRES as a Red Sox .

IT'S BEEN A YEAR-LONG PARADE of underdogs, resurrections, and redemptions, with many a misguided notion reconsidered, revised, and upend...

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT, it doesn't sound good at all. Adam Kilgore gives us the rundown on the Nats' season so far: Ple...

THE IMPROBABLE RISE OF NICK GREEN is the news of the day. Spring training began with franchise future Jed Lowrie and big contract veteran Ju...

HOW DOES THE GREEN MONSTER COMPARE in height with the Statue of Liberty ? How long did it take for each Major League Baseball team to break ...

"EVERYTHING ENDS BADLY, otherwise it wouldn't end." Bill Simmons quotes Cocktail as he keeps vigil over the demise of the leg...

IT WAS A GOOD NIGHT IN THE FENS, with a Major League record-tying 12 putouts by the center fielder, two home runs by the captain, and four h...

THE AMAZIN' METS seem to be foregoing their traditional season-end implosion by peaking early and putting the suck on well ahead of the ...

EBERT BLOGS ANTICHRIST, another fun-filled romp by Lars von Trier , aka crazy man. (I believe von Trier and Werner Herzog compete for that t...

IN THE WAKE OF THE EPIC MANNY BUMMER, let us focus only on the good things. Like, when Ellsbury, in a fit of daring, all of a sudden decide...

SO, BASICALLY, IN ONE WORD . . . UGH. You could also read Bill Simmons' 2,000-word imaginary conversation with his son regarding the epi...

1B, BB, 2B, BB, 1B, BB, 2B, 1B, 1B, 1B, 1B, HR — yet another strange line involving the Cleveland Indians, only this one's not in their...

BAMARAMARAMAheyhotdogRAMARAMARAMA — also known as the sound of your Football getting in my Baseball : I went to a Baseball game the other...

1B, 1B, HR, FO, 2B, 1B, 2B, 2B, 1B, 2B, 2B, BB, 1B, K, HR (GS), HR, K — the top of the 2nd inning today at Yankee Stadium . Yikes. Also, it ...

EBERT LOOKS BACK on the early days of a career as a good ol' fashioned newspaperman, and it's right out of All the President's M...

THE FOUR-SIDED TRIANGLE is a science fiction novel by William F. Sample which was turned into a movie in 1953. And judging by this MovieTome...

AS THE NEW YORK TIMES PONDERS the fate of Stan's Sports Bar – the central watering hole around Yankees Stadium for the last 30 years – ...

EVERYONE BEING MANNY, or at least everyone would like to be Manny , according to Jeff Bradley in his ESPN.com article: Quite simply, he...

JAPAN BEATS SOUTH KOREA to win its second World Baseball Classic in a row. The final game between the two rival nations reached its peak wi...

ONE DAY, YOU, LIKE ME, WILL DISCOVER TEDTALKS, and, just like me when I was you, you won't know where to begin. If I were you, and you w...

"THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM, but the second mouse gets the cheese." Different circumstances present different risks and opportun...

REDBELT is an unusual little flick – a samurai/noir/fight film with turn-of-the-screw plotting, some enjoyable martial arts scrapping, trad...

EBERT LOBS BON MOTS on cinematic bombs : No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out. ( Armageddon ) ...

MIDTOWN HOLIDAYS Humans hobbling along the sidewalks — Some drunks, who fell over once too often, now perpetually stumble eve...

THE HOT STOVE AIN'T SO HOT these days, as everyone sits around waiting for someone else to blink.

MAN ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTS GIRLFRIEND WITH BURGER, as reported by the Onion . Sorry, I mean, the New York Times .