The Cheese Review

The Cheese Review

We started off the year with high hopes. *This* year we had the horses. It was all going to come together. Spring training is like that – it gets your hopes up. And then the season starts, and reality… well, you know what reality does. Along the way we...
MLB is so cute…

MLB is so cute…

MLB is a fragile flower, almost poignant in how it clings to its simplistic models of reality.  Grantland writer Ben Lindbergh chronicled how MLB felt its grasp slipping on the space-time continuum during the 7th inning of the Toronto-Texas deciding 5th game.  And, as...
Dipoto Envy

Dipoto Envy

Look what Jerry Dipoto got to do today:   Lloyd McClendon will not return as manager in 2016 View as web page    |   October 9, 2015 MARINERS MAIL 2016 Mariners Staff Changes Mariners General Manager Jerry Dipoto announced today that Lloyd McClendon will not be...
MLB is so cute…

Answer Man: Options and New Contracts

Mr. Answer Man, Suppose a team (the Cottage, say) has a player who is listed as a free agent this off-season with the qualifier “$6.25MM club option with a $750K buyout.” If the Cottage, who owes him $4 million next year were to release him and the club...