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"This guy's pitching like he's double-parked outside the facility here."
- Ed Farmer on Mark Buehrle
Category Archives: News
The Original #14
No one ever thought it would happen, but Julio Franco retired. The author gives a short reflection on a long career.
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Blue Jay Envy
Frank is gone from the Blue Jays. Then again, he was never really there.
In Your Face
Baseball predictions are generally worthless, but it’s nice to at least see two things blowing up in the collective faces of every sportswriter with a Tigers man-crush out there. For one, after today’s drubbing by the Good Guys, the kittens are in a position where they’ll have to average 6.4 runs per game to meet [...]
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Say What You Want
If you read any of the Big Three mainstream media sports websites, you’re probably familiar with the so-called Power Rankings, in which each team in baseball is put through some extremely non-scientific analysis and ranked relative to one another. And if you read this site, you probably know I’m as big a supporter (and perpetrator) [...]
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Five? Check. Dive? Check.
There are probably some interesting stats out there about Cuban exiles getting their first major league hits, nice guy sluggers getting booed by an angry Cleveland fan base, quasi-controversial catchers hitting solo home runs three pitches too late, or improved bullpens actually showing struggles easily as bad as their predecessors’, but here’s one that certainly [...]
Elsewhere II
Jeff at Royally Speaking invited me back for his AL Central Preview, which you can read here. Anyone expecting a World Series out of this team, please address all hate mail here.
Let’s Get Serious
Pitching and defense win championships, that much is true. With today’s announcement that Josh Fields will start the season in Charlotte and Juan Uribe will cover second base duties, the following are also true: Half of the Sox’ infield is proven to be untradeable, and not in a good way Their second baseman is a [...]
Your Majesty
Jeff over at Royally Speaking asked me for a Royals/Sox preview. This is that preview.
First and Last Month’s, Plus Deposit
Want a great deal on rent in Chicago? Try building a stadium.
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Even Their Questionable Things Fall Through
It’s about as far from objective journalism as it gets, but you have to chuckle a bit at Don Cooper’s latest statements on the state of the relief corps: “They haven’t had a good spring,” Cooper said. “They haven’t shown us the things we need to see for us to feel very comfortable right now.” [...]
Superfan
You think you hate the Cubs? You have no idea how to hate the Cubs.
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My New Favorite Comedian
We try to avoid news blurbs here, but this is just too rich to pass up. In case you needed further proof of Major League Baseball’s willful ignorance on the matter of steroids, we present John Rocker on John Rocker: “Bud Selig knew in the year 2000 John Rocker was taking the juice,” the former [...]
Mercy!
Prepare yourselves for four more years of outlosability and lengthy lectures on the difference between guys who play the game well and guys who win the game that’s being played.
All the Critics Mock U In New York
Ah, January, in which temperatures hit -20 in Chicago and the paper of record reminds us all of our favorite team’s epic fall from grace: Only two seasons after they won the World Series for the first time since 1917, the White Sox incurred the largest dropoff in victories in the major leagues last season. [...]
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Say It Ain’t. . . Whatever
An A/B comparison of questionable free agent signings.
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