Jeff J. Snider's Blog

Earlier this offseason, the Nationals acquired Brian Lawrence from the San Diego Padres in a trade. A couple days ago, it was discovered that Lawrence has a potentially career-ending arm injury. As Jim Bowden and Frank Robinson disagree over whether the Nats should have done an MRI as part of the pre-trade physical, I think [...]

Jim Rice is angry that he’s not in the Hall of Fame. [The Boston Globe requires a free login, but if you don't want to sign up, go to www.bugmenot.com to get a login.] The more he talks, the more I hope he never makes it.

So the Yankees signed Scott Erickson to a minor league contract, with General Manager Brian Cashman referring to him as an “insurance policy.” Apparently Cashman wants to battle the Astros and Jeff Bagwell for the title of Worst Insurance Policy Ever. The article mentions that Joe Torre, Ron Guidry, and Joe Kerrigan watched Erickson throw [...]

Well, really, it was never gone, but it was pretty stagnant for several months. That’s right, the site that my brother made famous and I made great, We Made Out In A Tree And This Old Guy Sat And Watched Us, is back with a new design and fresh new content. Here are some of [...]

I respect Ozzie Guillen for what he accomplished with the White Sox last year. That doesn’t stop me from thinking he is a jackhole. No, I don’t really care that he didn’t go to the White House with the rest of the White Sox, even though I have my suspicions that it was a lot [...]

Just a quick note about something that annoys me: people referring to the famous T206 Honus Wagner baseball card (the world’s most valuable baseball card) as the “Honus Wagner rookie card.” I think the reason this happens is that, generally, a player’s most valuable card is his rookie card, so OBVIOUSLY the most valuable card [...]

I believe in Web Standards. I believe that Andy Clarke was mostly (or completely) right when he said: While I understand that for many, learning standards based development is difficult, particularly for creative people who have not been required to work with code before, I believe that the time has now passed for those working [...]

I think the entire Jeff Bagwell situation is ridiculous. Now, I will tell you why.