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The Dugout: LIMA

Time keeps going about its business. People who are funny jokes to us in the Dugout aren't supposed to die, they're supposed to keep being funny and live out their lives as rich spoiled steroid millionaires. They aren't supposed to die at age 37, when nobody should die. A human being is the only animal on the Earth who...

The Dugout: Thome In Minnesota

I swear I don't have a Google Alert or anything, but it turns out that free agent slugger and The Dugout favorite Jim Thome could be picked up by the Minnesota Twins, putting him back in the American League and AL Central where he belongs. Thome made his home in Cleveland from 1991-2002 and in Chicago from 2006-2009...

The Dugout Gives Thanks

...for Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins for simultaneously being the Magic Johnson and the Larry Bird of professional baseball. He puts up insane numbers (especially for a catcher, which is a talking point I'm sure you need more information about), he plays fair even when he doesn't have to, and he reminds us that the...

The Dugout: Blauch Buster

As reported earlier today, former All-Star, World Series champion, and all-around somewhat competent baseball player Chuck Knoblauch has been charged with hitting his common-law wife in the face and choking her like she was a female police officer. Since his premature retirement at the age of 34, Knoblauch has steadily and...

Tom Nieto Is Just As God Made Him

Babe, it's a hard life God makes you live But without it, Don't doubt it You don't even have Your tears to give - "Hard Life," Bonnie Prince BillyIf you are unfamiliar with Tom Nieto's role in The Dugout, I humbly ask that you read some of these before you read this one. Your second Dugout of the day is after the jump....