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I saw this and had to pass it along.  In Curt Schilling's newly revamped 38 Pitches blog, he wrote yesterday of all the moves he (and wife Shonda) has/have made since 1986.  You can read all about them HERE. 

You may continue now with whatever it is that you were doing, like vaccuming the dog.

Today's Monday Morning Interview takes us to some uncharted territory.  Jimmy Scott's High & Tight: The Jason Grilli Interview will introduce you to a major cog in the bullpen of the Colorado Rockies, Jason Grilli.  Here's the good thing: You know how you watch your favorite pla

I wrote a perfectly engaging post last week about narcisissm & fans and players and basically made my plea to fans that they should put themselves into a player's shoes before throwing the first stone.  Neglectfully, I didn't put myself in their shoes. 

I've had some great discussions lately with guys whose careers ended, from their points of view, prematurely.  When a baseball career ends, there are two ways to look at it.  The player is the one who doesn't want it to end.  He can be 50 and tell people, "I can still get people out."   Hell, Jamie Moyer could finish his new 2-year extension at 49 years old and say he wasn't done. 

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I wrote the other day about the narcissism of baseball players and called my post Baseball Players & Narcissism.  In particular, I was writing about me, proving the narcissism of ballplayers.  Or at least my own narcissistic ways (try typing the word narcissistic - very difficult).  But something happened after I made the post.  I realized fans are pretty narcissistic too.

Come on back Monday morning (or really, anytime once Monday morning comes along) to hear my extensive interview with current Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Jason Grilli.  Over 12 days and 147 hours, I put Jason through some of the most exhaustive questions he'd ever encountered, questions like What is life?

Update: January 2nd, AM - Lisa did a nice little write-up about me last night.  For those of you with computers, you can check it out HERE.  By the way, did you know that Lisa's Got MiLB? blog is in the Top 100 of all MLBlogs?  Well now you do.

I wake up.  I close my eyes.  Hit the snooze.  Miss.  Hurt my hand instead.  Open the eyes.  God.  Close them again.  Squint for snooze.  Throw clock onto floor.  Hear wife somewhere in the house bellow, "There's a reason it went off, Jimmy."  Wake up for good.  Until night.

Man, I really got an earfull yesterday from Glenn, a reader who took exception to the tone of my entry from October 13th titled When A Player Tries To Be A Normal Person, Just Like You.  The premise of what I wrote was that, because of my celebrity status, it isn't always easy for me to feel normal in public because of the eyes that look at me, the special treatment I receive (both positive and negative), or the overall vibe (but not vibe

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David Page, who I call Dave, is the Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Boston Red Sox.  What does an S&C coach do?  In Dave Page's interview on Jimmy Scott's High

I ran a little series here earlier this month about what various people around MLB do at the Winter Meetings, in their own words.  We heard from my agent, Steve Fortunato, and Sig Mejdal (pronounced My-Dell), baseball analyst for the St.

I don't do a lot of endorsements anymore.  I used to - Pepsi was a big one for about 6 years.  But not anymore.  Because I've been, let's face it, very flush with a monetary endowment for the last 15 years or so, I've been a little spoiled.  I make tons playing baseball.  But I work really hard to do that.  If I don't feel the need to earn more, why do the work?  Make sense?  To me it did.  Basically, a baseball season burns

Mark Texeira got his Holy Grail with the Yankees.  That's good for him, good for the team, and great for the Players Association.  Big contracts for big stars now mean bigger contracts for big stars in the future, economy be damned.

I swear there's a psychic quality to me.  I've written here before about how for many years I could think of a certain Brady Bunch episode and, voila, I'd be flipping around the channels not too much later and see it.  Yesterday, I was working on next week's Monday Morning Interview with

One of the best parts of being a professional baseball player is the support you can receive when things don't go your way.  A great case study would be that of former Houston pitcher Ricky Stone, who was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in September.   This is a scary story that you don't read so much: The former MLB pitcher who can't get out of AAA anymore, travels to Taiwan in search of a new baseball opportunity, gets hu

Over my years, I've spoken to lots of people around Major League Baseball.  Doug Glanville is one of the most impressive.  He was a speedy outfielder, swiping 34 bags (Everything I Ever Learned About Cliches I Learned From Watching MLB On FOX) in his career year of 1999.  He could play defense (didn't make an error his final 3 seasons).  And, this #12 pick overall in the