So, you want to know about the Blue Jays, eh? There are many new faces, Roy Halladay is gone and they still play in baseball’s toughest division. Since there’s no reason to drink wine in baseball, their likely trip to the cellar in the East isn’t good, and will likely register more losses at Fenway [...]

This is the debut of what will hopefully be a semi-regular look at University of Kentucky baseball.  Our first installment is bittersweet, as Kentucky’s 6-0 start to the season has been offset by news that they’ll finish the year without their best pitcher.
James Paxton, who I’m sure you’ve read about here, will not play for U.K. this [...]

Since hardly anyone knows about our writers at BDD, we decided to do this series and David Wade gladly agreed to participate. Once you read through his honest responses, our guess is you’ll stop back to read what Mr. Wade has to offer. Then you’ll also probably get why his introduction started with “Since hardly [...]

Major League Baseball is one of several athletic organizations that are supporting a group that is urging Congress to enact tighter controls over the 20 billion dollar supplement industry.
Supplement Safety Now ”was founded by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, with support from Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League.” 
The organization’s hope is to [...]

University of Kentucky pitcher James Paxton will appeal a Kentucky Court decision that denied his Motion for a Temporary Injunction, which would have forced the school to allow him to play this spring. 
(Previous articles on Paxton available here.)
Paxton’s attoney, Richard Johnson, filed a Motion for CR 65.07 Interlocutory Relief on January 27th.  This motion is an appeal to the decision that denied [...]

As opposed to many writers, commentators, and fans I find it hard to say how Mark McGwire should have handled the steroid era.  First, I’m not Mark McGwire.  Second, I’m not sure anyone has a complete picture of the culture at that time.  Finally, I can’t muster up enough indignation to condemn every player in MLB that hasn’t played out their [...]

On Friday, January 15, University of Kentucky senior pitcher James Paxton lost his case that would have forced the school to allow him to play despite questions from the NCAA about his amateur status.
This link can get you up to speed and contains links back to the start of this story, but the crux is that [...]

There are times when I miss firejoemorgan.com more than others.  Mostly it’s random days when eating lunch at my desk and scrolling through my favorite sites.  However, some other times in life, when feeling especially retrospective and maybe even engaged in some deeper philosophical moment of inner reflection, well, those times seem to provide the periods of greatest longing for the comfort that could only be [...]

James Paxton’s attorney, Richard Johnson, claims the University of Kentucky violated Paxton’s rights as a student when they told him he had to sit for an interview with the N.C.A.A.
In an email sent out to the media, Johnson attached his reply to U.K.’s response to his client’s motion for temporary injunction.  This was the formal reply he emailed us about, and [...]

It all started with the Toronto Blue Jays interim president laying out his reasons for missing out on signing their 37th overall pick in the MLB draft this past summer.  Once the Toronto Globe and Mail quoted Paul Beeston in this article, Kentucky left-hander James Paxton’s college baseball career was in jeopardy. 
Beeston was simply explaining to the media why he did not come to [...]