We’re fast approaching the All-Star Break, meaning we’re close to kicking off the unofficial “Second Half” of the MLB season (though every team will pass 81 games played before the ASB arrives). How are your fantasy teams? Maybe time to do a little check-in with yourself? You doing okay out there? Let’s take a look […]

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. I’ll be spending today with my kids, and with my own dad, as we venture out to the Coliseum to see the A’s play the Phillies. Most years when we go to this particular game— my dad gets a deeply-discounted luxury suite because he auto-renews his […]

Hey there Bar patrons… I’m on vacation in beautiful Lake Tahoe with my family this weekend, so I’m going to make this one short and sweet. Spencer Strider is your single-start Point of Reference this week, worth in one start almost exactly what Jon Gray will be worth in two. Why don’t you and I […]

Happy June, Dive Bar Patrons! We are just about 1/3rd of the way through the 2023 season. If you’ve been hanging on to players you spent draft capital on, but who haven’t worked out, it might be time to consider putting them out to pasture. Now might be the time to sell high on the […]

The Dive Bar giveth, and the Dive Bar taketh away. We’ve had a few good weeks here, with a lot of great choices when it comes to two-start pitchers for your weekly-change leagues. This week, though, the pickings are quite a bit slimmer than they have been. Our Point of Reference for the week is […]

Welcome back to another installment of the Two-Start Dive Bar! Some weeks I sit down to write this column, and I have something specific in mind to say, like “Happy Mother’s Day”, or “F*ck John Fisher”, etc. Today I find myself kind of without a lot of wisdom to impart here, other than maybe to […]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, mas, mothers, mommies, grandmas, step-moms, mothers-in-law, and other assorted mother-figures out there in the world today. If you’re “mom” to someone, no matter the details, then you’re a pretty damn special person and deserve to be celebrated today. An especially Happy Mother’s Day to the moms in my […]

Happy Sunday, Barflys! Welcome back to another edition of the Two-Start Dive Bar! This week’s tables look a lot different from last week’s tables, and there are many more very good reasons to run your double-dippers out there this week. Only two pitchers (Kyle Freeland and Jake Irvin) warranted the absolute lowest of my considerations, […]

Lots of very familiar names in the Top Shelf this week, and at least one very unfamiliar name. Mason Miller, of my beloved-slash-abhorred Oakland A’s, gets a start in the Coliseum and one at Kauffman Stadium this week. Miller shows a solid K/BB and with the park/team factors at play this week, he’s Top Shelf: […]

I’ve been an Oakland A’s fan since 1985. My family had season tickets from the time I was in kindergarten until about the time I was in high school, in the mid-90s, which happened to coincide with a significant downturn in the team’s fortunes compared to their dizzying heights of the late ’80s. But I […]

Plenty of good options in the Dive Bar this week, but a lot of pitfalls to watch out for. There are a dozen players up on the Top Shelf this week, and I know everyone comes here to have me let them know that, yes, it is a good idea to start Shohei Ohtani in […]