The 35th Street Review » ESPN http://www.sox35th.com Part passion. Part pretension. Mostly White Sox. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:05:14 +0000 en hourly 1 There is No Reason for Alex Rodriguez to Play Baseball Ever Again http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/1367/there-is-no-reason-for-alex-rodriguez-to-play-baseball-ever-again http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/1367/there-is-no-reason-for-alex-rodriguez-to-play-baseball-ever-again#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 03:22:26 +0000 Andrew Reilly http://www.mouthpiecesports.com/soxblog/?p=356 Alex Rodriguez is a great baseball player, maybe even the best ever, and that's about the last thing any of us needs right now. [More]

]]> http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/1367/there-is-no-reason-for-alex-rodriguez-to-play-baseball-ever-again/feed 1 It’s Not the Spotlight http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/860/its-not-the-spotlight http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/860/its-not-the-spotlight#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 23:01:31 +0000 Andrew Reilly http://www.sox35th.com/?p=860 "Sox-Rangers" just doesn't have that contentious, national-level ring to it. [More]

]]> http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/860/its-not-the-spotlight/feed 3 The GDP of Bobby Abreu http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/344/the-gdp-of-bobby-abreu http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/344/the-gdp-of-bobby-abreu#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:08:22 +0000 Andrew Reilly http://www.sox35th.com/?p=344 When sportswriting gets in its own way. [More]

]]> http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/344/the-gdp-of-bobby-abreu/feed 0 Say What You Want http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/272/say-what-you-want http://www.sox35th.com/index.php/272/say-what-you-want#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:40:54 +0000 Andrew Reilly http://www.sox35th.com/?p=272 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) of pretty much any nonsensical assessment of the state of baseball.

BUT. . .

A week into the season, shouldn’t things like potential and possibility go by the wayside? As an example, Fox Sports currently ranks the winless Tigers as the sixth-best team in baseball. The Royals and White Sox, who each swept said alleged sixth-best team, sit at 15 and 23 respectively. Over at Sports Illustrated, the Tigers, Royals and Good Guys go 10th, 27th and 24th. All this while the Tigers rank last in pretty much everything and the Sox and Royals sit atop the AL Central.

Yes, the Tigers COULD score a ton of runs. And yes, they COULD win the division by a long shot. But trading possibility for reality, 5-2 is still superior to 0-6 and potential is worthless when you’re losing 13-2 to the so-called 15th best team in the game.

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