Time for more meaningless baseball monologuing that no one will ever care to read. (I sometimes use my blog to talk to myself.)
So, both of the major sports websites that I checked today (FoxSports and ESPN) have written impassioned diatribes about how super-excrementally-lame it is that Alex Rodriguez has declined to take part in the [...]
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A-Rod and the home run derby
Posted in Baseball on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a long time…
Posted in Baseball on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…since ESPN baseball analyst Jayson Stark said anything I found downright dunderheaded in a column. The fact that he seems to have done it twice in only one column today gives me a perfect opportunity to return to the wonderful world of complaining about sports journalism.
1. After a lengthy recap of the situation with Evan Longoria – who signed [...]
Post one
Posted in Baseball on December 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So, I’m back from my trip to Belgium for a conference, but that’s a long and involved blog post that I don’t want to write just yet.
It’s coming…
But what I want to talk about right now is the many things that have gone on in baseball since I left the country six days ago.
1) The [...]
The problem with democratizing analysis
Posted in Baseball, Cinema and Film on November 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A couple things that struck me this morning…odd similarity across two unrelated issues.
1. A post on the ESPN baseball message board, quoting another article apparently, reads thusly:
“Tulowitzki 15th Greatest Rookie of All Time
According to WARP3:
1. 1890 Kid Nichols, Boston Beaneaters: 14.2
2. 1964 Dick Allen, Philadelphia Phillies: 13.1
3. 1901 Christy Mathewson, New York Giants: 12.6
4. 1910 Russ [...]
Bored and Whiney
Posted in Baseball, television on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This has been an ungodly long semester. Lots of deadlines, writing to accomplish, and schools to apply to (which is one of the least enjoyable things on the planet, right up there with catching fish hooks using only your eyelids), and without anything even approximating a social life.
So I’ve spent the bulk of the last [...]
In Defense of a Preposterous Suggestion
Posted in Baseball on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Is it really so crazy to suggest that the St. Louis Cardinals should trade Albert Pujols? I’m not convinced that this is a ridiculous proposal. Let’s face it, the Cardinals need a pitcher badly – and a big time pitcher at that, not one of the scrap heap starters they’ve signed over the last few [...]
Cardinals, off season, and such like
Posted in Baseball on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, the baseball season has come to a close, and my Cardinals rather predicatably finished with a sub-.500 record.
And now Walt Jocketty, the general manager, has been let go. I’m not so shocked by this, as he was a fabulous GM for building a winning team out of nothing, but didn’t appear to be nearly [...]
Matsuzaka
Posted in Baseball, Major League Baseball on August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Who ever would have thought that the problem would not be his pitching, but the inability of the Red Sox to score any runs?
Last night, Daisuke Matsuzaka got his second no decision in a game in which he only allowed one run. He’s also taken three, count-em THREE losses this season in which he only [...]
Just to play devil’s advocate.
Posted in Baseball, Major League Baseball on August 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
If anyone tries to pull this common argument on you …
“Barry Bonds’ power peak coming at age 37 was unprecedented in baseball history”
…use this as a response.
Other players who’s biggest homer years came at age 37 or later:
Tony Gwynn – 17 at age 37 and 16 at age 38. His two peak years.
Paul Molitor – [...]
My problem with the steroid ‘debate’
Posted in Baseball on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m fine with people who want to believe that steroids were done and that they caused monumental increase in numbers. I don’t believe that, but I’m fine with other people thinking that way.
My problem is the conviction people manage to feel about something which they literally know nothing about. It’s all supposition, and yet people [...]
