The U.S. U-23 National Team came away with a very disappointing 1-1 draw versus Cuba last night in Tampa in Olympic-Qualifying. The U.S. team still has two more games in the group stage, the top two in the group move on to the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-final matches head to China later this […]
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Soccer: Disappointing Act for US; Disappearing Act for Cuba
March 12th, 2008 · No Comments
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Soccer: Big Game Tonight!
March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
This is really the first time I’ve ever tried to be Voros McCracken Baseball Guy and Voros McCracken Soccer guy at the same time in public, so you’ll excuse me while I work out the kinks. Tonight the US National Team plays arguably its first really meaningful game since the 2006 World Cup. Head Coach […]
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Fluke HR Seasons
March 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have a new article up on Baseball Digest Daily which looks at the flukiest Home Run seasons since 1920. Unfortunately Rick Wilkins doesn’t make the list.
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Grow Up
March 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
First some imbeciles in New Hampshire get in a twist over Yankees caps in a presidential primary. Then a bunch of angry painters beat up a guy in Cambridge for wearing a Yankees hat. Now Mets and Red Sox “fans” have decided that Yankee Stadium is an inappropriate place for their NYU commencement ceremonies (as […]
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Square at the Roundtable
March 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Over at “Two Guys Who Like Never Agree” I participated in a roundtable with lots of other smart guys. I feel terrible about being as brief as I was considering how in depth others were. It makes it seem like I couldn’t be bothered which is miles away from the truth. I just misdiagnosed how […]
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Leap!!
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Thanks to Baseball Reference, I now know that Al Rosen is celebrating his 21st birthday today. I’m surprised a player of his quality at that age is still a free agent. Speaking of age, I also have a new post up at Baseball Digest Daily about players who are “young for their league.”
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Eddie Gaven
February 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Well one thing my career at Baseball Digest Daily will allow me to do is digress into non-baseball stuff. I used to blog about soccer and I miss it so I suppose you’ll see the occasional soccer post on here from time to time. Piotr Nowak has named the team he’s bringing into Olympic qualifying […]
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Multitasking!!
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments
My first post is up at Baseball Digest Daily. There will still be plenty of stuff here (mostly clips from Death Race 2000), but I’m going to be posting a lot of stuff at BDD too. This is all part of my plan for global domination and enslavement of the human race.
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Sabermetric Drive By: Matchup Spreadsheet
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Below is a link to an excel spreadsheet which demonstrates the log 5 phenomenon I wrote about seven years ago in today’s post about Bill James and Craig Biggio. Do with it what you will. Grace vs. Pedro vs. Karros vs. Karl
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Craig Biggo Hates Old People
February 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My dad used to talk a lot about guys he considered to be “cripple shooters”: guys who he thought feasted against lousy pitchers and struggled more than usual against good ones. One particularly common target was Roy Sievers, a slugging first baseman the White Sox acquired in 1960 for future All-Stars Earl Battey and Don […]
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