Just the other day I was thinking to myself, what the world needs now is love, sweet love. Or failing that, the world needs another baseball column, full of recycled news with witty asides.

So, without further ado, howdy folks, and welcome to my very first (and hopefully not last) column, here at the esteemed BaseballGB. Let me introduce myself. As the more eagle-eyed among you might have ascertained from the byline above, my name is Steve. I’m a New York Mets fan. There, I said it. Just like an Alcoholics Anonymous member saying “I’m an alcoholic” for the first time, I feel so much better about getting my shameful admission out there in the open.

But I digress. I’m aware that there are plenty of great round-ups of baseball news across the web, including some excellent work here in this fair parish. But what about those other stories? What of those tales of the bizarre, the barely believable, the shocking, the silly and the downright daft? Well, dear reader, you’ll find all that here each week.  Continue reading →