September 2010
MLB Team Snapshots
The Beautiful Mind level insanity around the AL Previews formula I've been tinkering with and referred to in these two posts should (hopefully) be done today. In an effort to not let the homework slow down our…
Sizing Up the AL Playoffs, Part II
We're taking this one step at a time. In Part I of this series, we broke down the first steps towards constructing a recipe to see which teams will perform better in the relative crapshoot that is baseball's postseason.…
Who Hasn't Seen "Grandma's Boy"?
How fast was Cool Papa Bell? Faster than that! I'm still recovering from the quasi mini-heart attack I got when my wife called from work, starting the call off with a somber, "I have some terrible news." Now, my mind is…
Sizing Up the AL Playoffs
We don't usually show our math work like we did when figuring Cubs' arbitration numbers in our last post . When looking at predictions , we traditionally do no math at all. Of course, I'll look up stats to see what's…
Why Don't You Arbitrate Deeeze?
Most people around the Cubs know that they prefer to settle arbitration cases than have a hearing. As fans, I think we mostly like that. Arbitration cases have a likelihood of creating bad feelings between the player…
We're All Counting on You, Lucas Duda
Not that anyone cares, but we're battling in our rotisserie league to finish in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place. Today's MLB schedule is light due to many off days, so this was a day to grab hitters off the waiver wire and get…
Three Link Thursday
There were a few items on the InterWeb the last couple of days that we wanted to share, and since it's thursday and we're suckers for alliteration, then voilà, it's Three Link Thursday. First, former Miami Dolphin…
Ugh, Pitcher Wins? Is this 1972?
How bad can things get in Cleveland? LeBron is gone, so the Cavs are terrible. The Indians are playing out the string. The Browns are ranked 32nd on most power polls, including ESPN's. They don't even have a hockey…
Valvoline: 11? Probably
As most regular readers of this space know, my "day job" involves marketing, media, advertising, etc. Just as we have an occasional NFL post , please excuse the occasional media commentary. We'll keep the subjects…
Chris Sale the Closer
I just read on CBS Sports the breaking news about our favorite White Sox pitcher, Chris Sale...... Guillen calls Sale his Closer " From The Sports Xchange notes: RHP Bobby Jenks (elbow) was still unavailable during the…
Old School
There’s not a lot of baseball in this post, sorry. This is more of a big mess of psychological nonsense about feeling old. I actually recommend not reading it. Please move on. There is nothing to see here. When I turned…
'Roids, Aging, & The Pride of the Goldpanners
It has been twenty years since this photo was taken, yet I saw it for the first time yesterday. Why is this photo not more celebrated? Anybody know where I can get a fake ID? Perhaps, I'm exaggerating the comedic value…
NL West Fever: Catch It!
How great is the NL West? This is turning out to be an all-time great race. It's keeping my attention, as I check the standings daily and don't even really care who wins. Rookie & Comeback Players of the Year: Posey and…
Player of the Fortnight vol. 4
Sunday morning is a good a time as any to paraphrase. A wise baseball man once said, "Just give me their stats for the last two weeks, and that'll tell me who's going good," or something to that effect. Thinking of that…
Position Players of the Future 2010
Brett Wallace looks like a nice boy. Last year, when we posted our first Position Players of the Future post, we did it in late August. So, we missed out on some September callups, notably: Buster Posey, Tyler Flowers,…
2010 NFL Predictions
Drew Magary says it best in his Week 1 NFL Jamboroo (NSFKids): “I do this every year, because making brutally incorrect predictions never stops being enjoyable. Plus, if one of these predictions stumbles bass ackwards…
Britney Spears & 2010 Pitching Debuts
Remember last year, when we wrote this piece called Power Arms of the Future ? We wanted to celebrate how impressed we were with performances from young pitchers like Mat Latos, Tommy Hanson, and Neftali Feliz. The next…
How the West will be Won
The National League West race is getting better every day. While the Rockies refuse to concede anything, much will be determined over the next four days, as the Padres host the Giants for four games starting tonight at…
The Steve Phillips/Omar Minaya Post
At one point two Fridays ago, I was hit with a douse of inspiration to explore something that I knew would require a bit of exploring baseball-reference.com . ( No hard feelings if you don’t read this. It’s a lot.) As…
WAR Memo on Belated Labor Day
Happy Belated Labor Day, everyone!!! We'll get back to actual posts hopefully later today. Falling off the wagon does not affect WAR In the meantime, I wanted to inform you that until further notice, whenever we cite…
While We're Away
We're going to be heading to the lovely LaGuardia Airport for a flight to the city of my birth, Chicago. I'm actually not taking my laptop because it's a quick trip for the wedding of dear friends of ours, and we'll be…
Our 2010 Celebration of SP/RP's
We say "Don't Pay for Saves". Let other suckers waste perfectly good mid round draft picks on closers coming off good seasons. Even if you get the best closer, you could have gotten someone almost as useful much later…
Aroldis Chapman's Fantastic Pitch f/x
The last time I tried to copy and paste a graph from Texas Leaguers Pitch f/x database , the information didn't translate. Let's see if this works. Here is supposed to be the side angle of Aroldis Chapman pitches from…
Eureka! It's the "Peggy" Ad
We found a clip with the Discover Card commercial we reference in our most recent post . Thanks to Brandweek, for the link . As many of the regular readers of this space know, we're better with photos than videos. Let's…
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