Players & Agents & Choices & Conflicts of Interest

Craig Paquette played parts of 11 years in the big leagues and earned over $8 million.  His agent at the beginning of his career was Scott Boras.  But after the 1997 season, Paquette chose to leave the agent some consider to be the most influential man in baseball over the pas

Jimmy Scott's High & Tight: The Craig Paquette Interview Pt. 1

I remember talking to Shonda Schilling a few years ago about her husband, Curt.  They were in negotiations with the Red Sox on a contract extension.  She took a step back and said they never thought his career was going to last 5 years.  Ironically, he would end up missing the entire season with an injury after signing his deal.  He retired shortly thereafter.   But Shonda wasn't so far off with th

Your Next Jimmy Scott's High & Tight Monday Morning Interview: Craig Paquette, Part 1

"My dear Jimmy," you write to me, the feather in your plume making your nose twitch, "are you insinuating by the title of this post that you did a two-part interview with Craig Paquette?"

I have an answer for that.

"It really is two parts?" you respond just before sneezing.

Yes.

Road To The Show Interview: Gary McCoy, New Orleans Zephyrs 1B/Strength & Conditioning Coach

By Cassidy Dover: "To Complete, Not To Compete"

Where has this off season gone?  I am sure I have not mentioned to any of you my offseason mission.  Usually I spend my time focused solely on my family.  What's best for Ray or for Sheridan?  How can I maximize the time we have together? Even during the season I will drop things to jump on a plane to be there when Ray is called up or if Sheridan is just in need of "Daddy time."

All Of Us Are Idiots: A Changing Baseball Digest

As a general rule of thumb, we as a human race kind of suck.  We're idiots.  Note that I'm including myself in the sentence previous to this.  Why, just the other day, I was working on some Algebraic Number Theory, trying to figure out if there are an infinite number of real quadratic number fields with unique factorization.  The only answer I could come up with is Yes.  When asked to back it up, I ran to the nearest



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