Here's a portion of this week's article that I wrote for our pals at Gotham Baseball.  Click at the end to get to their site and read the remainder, which you're bound to love because it's from Jimmy.  Your Jimmy. 

And that's me.

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Take a look at what one of my biggest fans, Nicole Denise Lioi, created especially for Jimmy Scott's High & Tight.  Original art from an original lady.  Pretty awesome, huh?  It's called "At The Ballpark With The Ball People."

Thanks, Nicole!

If you're a closer in MLB, like me now (closing games is never on a starting pitcher's To Do list, unless you think you can complete what you started), there's more to the end result than your team's place in the standings.  A blown save has a ripple effect. 

Remember the old nursery rhyme, The House That Jack Built?  Here's the last verse:

I've noticed that the widget on the right of the site which carries all of my interviews does not carry all of my interviews.  It's missing the first handful.  For some reason, which I'll try to find out but am fairly certain will be out of my cranial capacity to figure out, every time I add an interview, an earlier one gets dropped off.

Check out what Lady At The Bat wrote about me & this fine site today:

Legend has it that when Babe Ruth missed some games during the 1925 season, it was because he ate too many hot dogs.  The real reason, many suspect today ("today" meaning the generic "for the last some-odd years or whatever"), is that he had gonorrhea.  Yes, Babe loved dogs.  But he loved babes just as much.

The baseball marriage.  Man, that's an interesting subject.  Boston Red Sox pitcher Paul Byrd's better half, Kym, was kind enough to take some time out of her busy schedule to talk to me about not just the generic baseball marriage, but some revealing details about her own.  You're going to hear a number of interesting perspectives about what it's like to be the wife of a guy who was recently traded.  Kym tells us about ho

Want to read some neat stuff?  I'm sure you do.  And if you a girl, or woman, or metrosexual, or, let's be honest, male man with the goods down below (you know what I'm sayin'), you're a gonna love reading Miss Chatter: Online Reporter.  Who is this respectable lady?  I found this first person account somebody wrote:

Watch & remember.