Vin Scully, Voice Of The Yankees  —  The advent of the Mets' annual visit to Dodger Stadium always reminds me of one of the greatest baseball stories nobody tells.  —  Let's correct that.  —  A decade ago, when I was still working full-time in sports and in Los Angeles …

Delgado To Have Surgery  —  The Mets have announced Carlos Delgado will undergo arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone spur and repair a torn labrum in his hip tomorrow in New York.  —  ...from what i can gather, delgado will likely be out until the all-star break...  RSS 2.0 You can skip to the end and leave a response.

MLB, Fox turn back World Series clock with earlier start times  —  Major League Baseball and Fox will announce today a real TV throwback: World Series action starting before 8 p.m. ET.  —  That hasn't happened, in a regularly scheduled weeknight Series game, in at least 34 years.

Game 38: Twins at Yankees  —  YANKEES (20-17)  —  Pitching: LHP Andy Pettitte (3-1, 4.00 ERA)  —  TWINS (18-20)  —  ROLLING: After losing four games in a row from May 4-7, the Yankees have won seven of their last nine games including the past five straight.

Weeks out for season  —  By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel  —  St. Louis - General manager Doug Melvin just gave us the very bad news that second baseman Rickie Weeks is out for the season with the wrist injury he suffered Sunday.  —  Weeks has a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist that must be repaired surgically.

An Open Letter To ESPN  —  To whom it may concern:  —  Please remove Steve Phillips from all of your baseball broadcasts.  During Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, Phillips has been a relatively unspectacular commentator.  Allowing Phillips to speak outside of these timed …

Wagner announces surprise retirement  —  Reliever baffles front office with decision to hang up spikes  —  WASHINGTON — Nationals right-hander Ryan Wagner decided on Sunday to retire from baseball, and the team is baffled as to why Wagner called it quits.

Three banks set to finance Cubs purchase  —  Chicago Cubs buyer Tom Ricketts is close to lining up three banks to arrange the $450 million financing necessary to complete his acquisition of the team, financial sources said, positioning him to clear a substantial hurdle in the long-running sale of the club.

Revisiting the 1992 Expansion Draft  —  I wrote this article about 3 weeks back, as a submission to the “Baseball Prospectus Idol” competition the guys over there were having.  For those of you who didn't see that before (I only saw it thanks to a Rob Neyer link), this was a competition …

Improving Mariners looking to trade Yuniesky Betancourt to the Pirates for Jack Wilson?  —  A nice win by the Mariners yesterday, as seen in the photo above.  They needed a weekend like this.  That's two good series in a row by the Mariners, even though they only got results on this one occasion.

Pirates claim Jackson from Yankees  —  The Pirates have claimed right-handed reliever Steven Jackson off waivers from the New York Yankees.  —  Jackson, 27, had a 1.88 ERA and one save in seven appearances for Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre before being designated for assignment May 8.

Bourn, Pence quick studies at the plate  —  Young Astros outfielders applying lessons from veterans  —  HOUSTON — Young players fall into one of two categories.  Either they think they have everything figured out and never ask for help, or they appreciate their coaches and veteran teammates enough …

Wells swings against PED users  —  Former Yanks hurler weighs in on Clemens, Rodriguez  —  NEW YORK — Former big leaguer David Wells came out swinging Sunday against those who have used performance-enhancing drugs, counting the achievements of former teammate Roger Clemens …