My relationship with Baseball Digest.com has grown.  Besides writing for the online version of one of my favorite childhood magazines, I'm now providing a weekly commentary for Baseball Digest Live, which is a daily online radio show run by Mark Healey, former AP writer and owner of Gotham Baseball.  Mark came to me, and he says, "Yo, Jai

Monday, Monday, la la, la la la la, So good to me, la la, la la la la, Monday Monday, blah blah blah.  Think Mamas & The Papas.  Or think Bangles (Just another Manic Monday).  There's also the Boomtown Rats.  I don't like Mondays, I don't like Mondays, I don't like, I don't like...  Just don't shoot the whole thing down.

Jimmy, what on earth are you rambling about this time? you ask.

I was sitting here thinking, “What in the world can I tell people about the lives in the Minor Leagues?”  I’m not sure I’ll get any sympathy on this one.  However, if I start at that uncomfortable place, the one that permeates our lives even though I try my best to keep it away, maybe you’ll better understand some of the stress in our “almost-charmed” lives.

Former New York Yankees PR director and author of the new book, Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Marty Appel spoke recently in an interview for Jimmy Scott's High & Tight.  The focus of the interview was the death of Thurman Munson almost exactly 30 years ago.  At the time of M

Jerry Seinfeld once had a joke, based on truth.  He said that the #1 fear of Americans was speaking in public.  #2 was death.  "So you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy."

The following is a statement sent to me from the team behind A Glove of Their Own, the award-winning children's book that I've coerced you into loving on occasion (meaning, on occasion I've coerced; you can love it all the time if you like).  The statement was prepared by the IBAF, the International Baseball Federation.  Baseball was stripped fr

Brent Mayne isn't your ordinary average guy.  He's not just the guy next door who's 41 years old and works from home.  He's more your ordinary average retired Major League Baseball player, who played 15 years in a game most guys - the ordinary average kind - would kill to play for 1 day.  And he doesn't just work from home.  He's now an accomplished author and public speaker.  His book The Art of Catching (read

Former 15-year MLB veteran catcher Brent Mayne had the pleasure of being interviewed my me recently.  We talked about important baseball stuff, like plays at the plate, meetings on the mound, steroids, keeping your concentration while on lousy teams, and Rankenstein.

Pardon me?

Pardon you what?  You mean lousy teams?  Well, if a team isn't that good, it's considered -

No, no.  What was the word you used?