Nominations, Please: Most Improving Player
Occasionally, in some manner of print or electronic publication deeply concerned with sport, the editors will denote one or the other athlete as “most improved” among his peers. What follows has little...
View ArticleJosh Hamilton Can’t See the Big Picture
Com’on Josh Hamilton. Too much caffeine from energy drinks caused your blurry vision that kept you out of 5 games last week. While you were gone, your team went 3-2 and let Oakland stay within reach of...
View ArticleFor Your Consideration: Dayn Perry’s Drinking Log
News you can use… to feel better about your own drinking habits. Dayn Perry, of both CBSSports.com’s Eye on Baseball and the present charming weblog, made it known recently during an appearance on...
View ArticlePetition to Broadcast Arizona Fall League Games
To Major League Baseball: We the undersigned, having no specific (or even general) knowledge of the requirements so far as skilled personnel or technology or other manner of infrastructure are...
View ArticleActivities That Aren’t Golfing for the Tigers
It is often said of the players whose teams fail to make the postseason — or have otherwise been eliminated from the playoffs — it’s often said of such players that they “are golfing now” or “are...
View ArticleAdam Smith Discusses Baseball
“Let’s start with pins,” Adam Smith says. “You want pins? The little metal things? Cost a couple of cents each? Sure. But let’s say you can’t go to the store. Let’s say there is no store, so you’ve got...
View ArticleThere’s Live Baseball on Your Computer Right Now
And former major-leaguer Ramiro Mendoza is pitching for Panama. Against Brazil. In a World Baseball Classic qualifier. Here’s the video link: video. And the box score: box.
View ArticleCall to Action: Let’s Have Carson Cistulli Thrown in Prison
I have taken the necessary and gravely belated step of petitioning the federal government to imprison Carson Cistulli for treason. To make this happen, we need your voice … I have no doubt that...
View ArticleSubmit Questions for Totally Vapid Dayn Perry Podcast
Dayn Perry and I are recording his stupid weekly podcast appearance at 11am ET tomorrow (Wednesday). Feel free to submit questions or comments or a brief description of your nightmares in which Perry...
View ArticleThing That’s Happening: Hoss Reviews ESPN Top 100
Please allow me to review ESPN’s Top 100 base ball players. — Old Hoss Radbourn (@OldHossRadbourn) December 11, 2012 Readers who have found their way to this corner of the internet clearly possess both...
View ArticleSite You Can Easily Visit: Baseball Card Vandals
There are jokes, reader, and then there are jokes — the difference being primarily that one kind of them is italicized. On a probably related noted, the editors of Tumblr account Baseball Card Vandals...
View ArticleNow Soliciting: Amusing, Legal-Ish Disclaimers for NotGraphs
Recent reports from myriad reputable media outlets all confirm: FanGraphs is the most popular internet site on the internet. What this means, so far as Fame and Riches and Fame are concerned, is that...
View ArticleTaking Sabermetrics to the Streets
A simple request this weekend begat a nerdgasm: Maury Brown asked for favorite concert on twitter, and just a little listicle tickling jarred something loose. It wasn’t so much the particulars of the...
View ArticleBoileryard Clarke Endorses “Four Loko”
Those concerned about creeping Maoism will recall that Four Loko — the drink that helpfully combined restorative caffeine with mind-clearing alcohol — was banned by the meddlesome crypto-Etruscans at...
View ArticleSubmit Questions for Likely Disappointing Dayn Perry Podcast
Dayn Perry and I are recording his clearly absurd (and now, it appears, semi-weekly) podcast appearance at 1pm ET tomorrow (Wednesday). Feel free to submit questions for Perry — whose days on Earth on...
View ArticleAttend Oakland Games for Mostly Free in April, Seems Like
Heartbreaking update: @cistulli upon further review, I’ve learned that the ticket is for one game in April, not all of ‘em. Goldstar regrets the error, or should. — Ian Miller (@teen_archer) February...
View ArticleAnother Important Debate We Ought All To Be Having
A lot has already been accomplished in the year 2013. We have universally ratified the use of WAR in evaluating a player’s ability, conclusively established the exact correct players in the Hall of...
View ArticleSuggested Products for Steve Carlton’s Business
Deadspin recently reprinted a fascinating look into the depths of Steve Carlton‘s mind. Turns out, a cabal of 300 people is running the world. Or the Jews. Or the Chinese. Or the bankers. It can get a...
View ArticleSubmit Questions for Possibly Incoherent Dayn Perry Podcast
Dayn Perry and I are recording a Question Time™ edition of the podcast at 11am ET tomorrow (Wednesday). Feel free to submit questions for Perry — who has fewer than zero reasons to live — in the...
View ArticleReal-Time Stats Leaderboard for Italian-American Players
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