Discussing The World of Sports
Today is Wednesday, September 08th, 2010
Listen not everything penned here is worthy of a Pulitzer, but I came across this article and couldn’t help offering a semi re-post. Your main man Prince Fielder decided to celebrate a dinger by ripping out his uniform only to reveal that he is a true Brewer even down to his boxer shorts…Just fantastic!
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October 7th, 2008 | Michael | 0 comments | Continued
Sometimes the only way to precipitate change is to embarrass the people in charge. That could happen this year if the Toronto Blue Jays keep winning. They lost last night–6-5 to the White Sox–but at 11 games over .500 they’re looking at a 92-95-win season as a real possibility.
And they won’t make the playoffs. With [...]
I’ll admit that about 3/4 of the way through the season I was a little upset with my Andre Ethier pick. I’d taken him for $1 in a 14-team mixed league, and undrafted guys like Eric Hinske were threatening to lap Andre in terms of value.
Worse, Juan Pierre was getting starts, scoring runs, and [...]
A couple of months ago, when things were really going wrong for Ryan Garko, I started wondering, “Is this guy the next Brian Daubach?”
August 18th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
Last night Justin Duchscherer won his tenth game of the season. He’s 10-2 with a 1.78 ERA and a 0.88 WHIP. It won’t last; don’t think that it’ll last. But it’s interesting to analyze the guy who’s suddenly the best pitcher in baseball.
July 9th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 2 comments | Continued
In 2007 Weaver proved that he could not pitch in the American League. His 6.20/1.53/.315 OBA line was the equivalent of a 15-second 100 metre dash. He wasn’t as bad as some guy behind you at Baskin Robbins, but he wasn’t as good as the mediocre standard of the fifth starter.
July 7th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
As a way of explaining behaviour, Manny being Manny is right up there with the cornmeal theory of infectious disease.
July 2nd, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
This morning a friend emailed me a link to a Kevin Kaduk blog post presenting (rather than dissecting) the “feud” between Jays’s GM J.P. Ricciardi and Reds’s man-mountain Adam Dunn.
June 20th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
The first time that I saw Santiago Casilla pitch, I rushed to one of my fantasy mags. I wanted to know what people were writing about a youngish eighth-inning guy with a mid-90s moving fastball and an unhittable power slider.
June 20th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
Greg Smith’s cooled down a little after a hot start, but he’s still someone to look at as a source of long-term value. As a lefty pitching in Oakland’s massive meadow, he’s got the benefit of history on his side.
June 20th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
We all know the power of nepotism. It’s why so many celebrities have children with gold and platinum records. It’s why Mordecai Richler’s family could build a cabin out of books they’ve published.
June 18th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
As a Clay Buchholz owner I’ve kind of been a little impatient with the Sox’s strategy of calling up every AAA pitcher who can’t be moulded, fired, glazed, fired, and glazed again.
June 18th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
I’ve always hated “good at-bats.” If we’re talking about a hitter who gets himself into a good count, then goes the other way for a hit, the expression works.
June 15th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 2 comments | Continued
With Pena’s ERA down to 2.84, I thought I’d show him a little respect and take a quick look at this guy’s situation. Pena, 26, is pitching the eighth for Arizona.
June 14th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
I can’t help but wonder whether Matt Cain’s destined to be the next Jeremy Bonderman: a guy with great potential who’s always a start away from being a $20 pitcher; but a guy who, until he’s that $20 pitcher, will always be overhyped and overpriced.
June 7th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
With 105 games left in the baseball season, Rios has grounded into ten double plays. That doesn’t seem like a lot, but consider this: In 711 ‘07 plate appearances, Rios grounded into nine twin killings; in 498 ‘06 at bats, six.
June 2nd, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
On May 8 Josh Fields was sent to the DL with tendinitis in his right knee. For fifteen days, that’s all we knew. He had tendinitis in his knee. He wasn’t playing. He’d be back…eventually. Well, now he is back–kind of.
May 30th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
The last couple days the big story’s been Willie Randolph’s spot on the firing line. The Mets aren’t sharp, and it’s Willie’s turn to answer for their sub-.500 record. But at 24-26, it’s hardly a crisis. I can’t say the same about the Indians.
May 28th, 2008 | Josh Fagan | 0 comments | Continued
So it’s our second player versus player challenge and after your overwhelmingly positive response to our last poll, we thought we would stick with the baseball theme but move to the mound this time with two guys who are up and coming baseball stars.
May 26th, 2008 | Michael | 3 comments | Continued
So we had a really great turnout for our Joe Mauer versus Russell Martin poll and it seems that Mauer has won by an overwhelming majority. 63 to 27 which translates to a 70/30 advantage for Mr. Mauer.
May 25th, 2008 | Michael | 0 comments | Continued
For some reason one of the major search terms that sends people to our site is “fat pitchers”. Apparently you all have a preoccupation with who has made the majors yet still looks like you and I.
May 25th, 2008 | Michael | 0 comments | Continued