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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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: