Jeff J. Snider's Blog

Wow, the Rangers are signing Kevin Millwood. A lot of people didn’t think this would happen for the Rangers, because they have had a bumpy relationship with Scott Boras every since they gave two of his clients, Alex Rodriguez and Chan Ho Park, about a billion dollars each, then finished in last place for the [...]

Bill Simmons (aka “The Sports Guy”) finally weighed in on the Johnny Damon deal. I have been expecting Simmons, an unabashed Red Sox fan, to write something, and I am glad he finally did. (I have said “finally” twice now, but it has been less than two days since the signing. I guess time just [...]

So Johnny Damon is signing with the Yankees. This is a shock, really. As recently as this morning, people like Buster Olney and other respected baseball experts were convinced that the only reason Scott Boras was talking to the Yanks about Damon was to drive up the price that the Red Sox would eventually, inevitably, [...]

Following up on what I wrote last week about President Bush’s Christmas/Holiday cards, here is something I picked up on from the Daily Show a day or two ago. Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, of the O’Reilly Factor, had as a guest on his show a man named Philip Nulman, author of a book called [...]

The Dodgers traded Milton Bradley to the A’s, and the Diamondbacks traded Javier Vazquez to the White Sox. A couple thoughts on each trade…

I am not a football expert, so maybe someone else can elighten me. I was just writing about Manny Ramirez and Miguel Tejada, and I naturally got to thinking about Terrell Owens. Here’s my question (eventually): Football contracts are unguaranteed, right? So if a player in the third year of a seven-year contract stops being [...]

In the ESPN.com chat with Jerry Crasnick today, there were a couple questions about a possible Manny Ramirez for Miguel Tejada trade. (For those of you who haven’t heard, Tejada recently announced that he is unhappy in Baltimore and wants to be traded.) With the Red Sox having just traded away Edgar Renteria, they definitely [...]

I just read this article about the Christmas cards President Bush sent out to 1.4 million supporters. Let me share a quote with you, from William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have [...]

I posted a couple days ago about how the Dodgers were negotiating a Milton Bradley for Barry Zito trade, and I expressed a bit of concern that the Dodgers might throw in some valuable minor leaguers to make it happen. Rumor today has it that the Bradley/Zito talks have died, and I am a little [...]

So the Dodgers hired Grady Little as their manager. Hmmmmmm. On one hand, there is the natural tendency to think that this is an absolutely ridiculous hire, what with his incompetence and all. On the other hand, if he can manage to cost the Dodgers the NLCS the way he cost the Red Sox the [...]