My dad’s White Sox continue to add Hispanic middle infielders. Cuban SS/2B/OF Alexei Ramirez reportedly is on his way to 35th and Shields. Ramirez apparently led the Cuban league in home runs this year, but then I led the Norwood Park Pony League in Home Runs one year and you don’t see me in…
A (H/T) to Andrew Johnson at the Defensive Indifference blog. First they launch a terrorist attack against Boston and now this baseless smear. I’ll have you know the number of ‘roid/bourbon high balls me and Big Papi have downed together is no more than two dozen, tops. What’s amusing is that similar sorts of…
These are, as best as I’m able to calculate, the pitching totals for non-pitchers in MLB from 1946-2006. IP H HR BB SO ERA BFP HBIP lgHBIP 313.2 370 44 206 139 6.51 1505 .298 .278 Now it’s possible I screwed up with database and don’t have the right numbers, but I looked it…
I’ve got a few responses on a few subjects regarding my mental state and the state of my intellectual capabilities. Realize that I’m mostly kidding when I take jabs at myself, but that these sorts of things do come from somewhere. Job one when I decided to do this blog was to be as…
A Q&A I did with the DRays Bay website is up. Stop by and have a look. They’re also discussing my mental state at BTF so check that out too.
Anyone out there know of a spot on the intertubes that has a screencap or video of a This Week In Baseball with the very creepy Mel Allen claymation? It appears this actually happened and not one of those things I “remembered” happening, but were actually some sort of weird dream I had. Any…
J.C. Bradbury of The Baseball Economist fame and the guy who basically taught me everything I know about Baseball economics, Andrew Zimbalist are having an exchange over J.C.’s book. The amount of respect I have for both these guys far exceeds the amount of respect I have for myself (as many posts here at…
Slate.com’s Tom Scocca puts on his speedos and splashes playfully around in the journalistic sewer. I once submitted an article to Slate and got turned down. After seeing this exercise in dung chucking being greenlit, the shame I feel at being turned down has multiplied tenfold. Seriously Tommy, are you kidding me? You don’t…
Comma comma down dooby doo down down. Dental work, a documentary, the holidays and my own personal shortcomings have left us dark for a while and for that I apologize. So let’s do the hard work and get back up to date with a roundup post: