So I’m watching the MLB All-Star Game, and while they had a brief tribute beforehand where Jeter said he and the Boss were best friends or something, nobody really seems to care that (SPOILER) George Steinbrenner died. The Anaheim fans still booed Girardi and the Yankee players, and the Yankees, for their part, were all [...]
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This Is Weird
July 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Seamus McGee
Jeff Passan has a good discussion of Charlie Manuel’s strong bid for the Dumbest Man In The World award, his selection of Omar Infante to the NL All-Star team. I don’t have much to add, but I want to emphasize how bizarre a pick this is. Infante’s OPS+ is 95 (100 is average), and his [...]
Just Plain Awesome
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Doc Hollywood
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I Wish Someone Could Do This Today
October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Seamus McGee
In the early days of baseball, people made a lot of errors. In 1890, a shortstop named Billy Shindle made 119 errors. They had small gloves, the fields were lumpy, and who knows, maybe the scorers were a bunch of assholes. My favorite err-er, however, is Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, he of the expensive [...]
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Howard Bryant Is Parodying the PED Moral Panic
July 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Seamus McGee
Or at least he’d better be. This column is unbelievable. Allow me to quote at length:
Think for a moment about faith. Not about baseball or the media, about the union or management, the home and away teams, all the stuff that seems so important but in truth really amounts to nothing. Such surface concerns melt [...]
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Baseball + Infographics = Fun
June 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Doc Hollywood
So, the Harv has informed me of the existence of Flip Flop Fly Ball. Having more than a passing interest in graphic design and baseball statistics, FFFB piques my curiosity. While all the infographics that Craig Robinson, creator of FFFB, fabricates are not necessarily in-depth, they are all fun to look at. Like, for instance:
You [...]
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