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An article in the Chicago Sports Review, (H/T) Baseball Think Factory, got me to thinking about Curt’s Hall of Fame case. Looking at Schilling’s Baseball Reference page, the site lists two direct contemporaries, Kevin Brown and Mike Mussina, as close similarity matches.

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Jacoby Ellsbury just won a taco for everyone in the country. The Crunchy Ground Beef Seasoned Taco from Taco Bell has an estimated retail value of 77 cents, and the same nutritional value as a clump of Fenway Park sod. Taquitos.net has the full rundown. He’s a little hard on Taco Bell. This is the […]

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The baseball industry is like any other: interview well and you keep getting jobs. Act like I do? Food stamps, baby. On that note, Chuck LaMar has landed a scouting gig with the Phillies. LaMar, you might remember, was the General Manager of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for most of their existence. While not […]

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Wow so people are already here. Okay. When you make your first comment, it gets held up in the queue for me to approve. After I’ve approved one of your comments, your comments should appear immediately after you post them. Why am I doing it this way? Don’t really know. I guess I don’t want […]

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My soccer friends all lick their chops that Baseball is going to be the one big sport it supplants in this country in its rise to national prominence. They certainly don’t want to hear me pipe in with actual facts and information (attendance records set, again).

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As you probably know, the Boston Beaneaters went up one game to nil nothing over the Denver Bears in the 2007 World Series with a 13 to 1 victory (the Beaneaters donated one of their two extra points to the Bears in a fine show of sportsmanship). I always ponder DIPS whenever I watch an […]

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After a long hiatus (about three years) of viewing baseball as not very much fun anymore, I’m back to subject you offer to you my insights on the sport I once analyzed for a living. What have I been doing? Watching soccer for the most part and having a damn fine time doing it, I […]

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Paraphrasing the beacon of baseball information known as Joe Buck during Game 1 of the 2007 World Series: “Helton’s road numbers have always been just as good as his home numbers.” From FOX Sports, the folks currently paying Mr. Buck: H/R AVG/OBP/SLG Home .374/.468/.692 Road .297/.398/.518 My complaint is that this information isn’t exactly buried […]

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