Does lightning-rod umpire Angel Hernandez deserve his villainous reputation?

“Officer,” he said, “what if I told you that I’m an American citizen, and that we just came back from the State Department and the White House, where we were asked to speak? And after a day speaking to important people and feeling good about our democracy, now this will be my experience in D.C.? Because that’s what just happened. If Lincoln were al

And they owe it to what Baseball Twitter would call a TOOTBLAN, “Thrown Out on the Bases Like a Nincompoop.”

The only trouble is: Does anyone want balance in Ty Cobb’s story?

From this shock jock’s viewpoint, it is a crime to be poor and homeless. The moral crime is that people like this jerk have no interest in finding out anything about the human being who stands on the corner, smelling and hungry. Were he to meet one such person and hear that individual’s story, he might understand the beating heart before him and th

If the hoax served to highlight that issue, he suggested, then he had no problem with Collins's means of publicity. It is difficult to imagine anything that could be more discrediting to a civic leader than the remarks attributed to Smith.

Ted Williams once said, “Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of 10 and be considered a good performer.” And many a hacky motivational speaker has used that concept to remind us not to be discouraged when we fail. But Williams was wrong. If a hitter fails seven out of 10 times in his job of not making outs,