October 2010

  1. Week 8 NFL Picks

    Addiction is a terrible disease. Gambling addiction ruins lives. Norm MacDonald would joke that the problem with his gambling habit isn't even the thousands of dollars he's lost on bad bets, but rather, the thousands…

  2. The Best Shortstops Before My Time

    A little less than four weeks ago, we contemplated the bright future of Logan Morrison . That verbal jaunt took a handful of first basemen from throughout history and attempted to see how LoMo stacked up. His numbers ,…

  3. World Series Preview

    The only thing we know for sure is that Bengie Molina will be winning a World Series ring this year. Most of you probably know this by now, but it bears repeating because it's pretty cool. After everybody's…

  4. 1900's Cubs Photos

    Special thanks to Bill Burgess, who shared these photos on Baseball Fever back in 2003. 1902 Chicago Orphans 1903 Chicago Cubs 1904 Chicago Cubs 1906 Chicago Cubs 1907 Chicago

  5. Week 7 NFL Picks

    Just for fun because, as Drew Magary said... "because making brutally incorrect predictions never stops being enjoyable. Plus, if one of these predictions stumbles bass ackwards into being correct, then I can totally…

  6. Perceptions of Yankee Fandom

    Editorial note: this may lead nowhere, no hard feelings if you stop reading what I think may be a nonsensical and misguided diatribe. Thanks for stopping by. Jealousy * (n.): resentment against a rival, a person…

  7. Adrian Beltre Sweepstakes

    The Detroit Tigers signed Brandon Inge to a 2-year $11.5 million contract extension this afternoon. Inge is known for being versatile and playing very good defense at third base. Adrian Beltre is by far and away the…

  8. A New Breed of Yankee Fans

    I have two friends from college who are from Baltimore, were Orioles fans, and somehow adapted and became Yankee fans. At different times, I've given them each grief over the matter. I mean, those are bitter rivals.…

  9. 2010 Ex-Cub Factor

    There's reason for hope in Philadelphia. Although Roy Halladay lost game one of the NLCS, the infamous ex-Cub factor, which was orignially penned by Ron Berler in the Boston Herald on October 15, 1981, gives hope to the…

  10. Gambling with George Costanza

    Sometimes with playoff baseball, I think you just need to let the games speak for themselves. We can try to write our feelings over what's been happening on TBS and Fox, but the game doesn't need just more noise.…

  11. The Bobby Cox Tattoo

    A picture is worth a thousand words. What about a picture of a 23-year old's Bobby Cox tattoo on his leg? h't PTI. This has left us speechless. All we can say is that Wilbon was right when saying that this kid needs to…

  12. The Best Free Agents

    W're working on a few things over here including: a revised Game Score formula that sort of feels more right, with IFFB data our look at 1973 awards Mark Prior Sandy Alderson's next move I'd think that at least two of…

  13. Halladay in the History Books

    Quick, think of the best pitching performances you've ever seen or heard of. What comes to mind? Roy Halladay tonight? Roy Halladay's perfect game? Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series? Koufax in '65? Jack…

  14. 2010 MLB Postseason Picks

    As loyal readers of this space know, we spent a lot of time calculating comparisons of expected outcomes for the postseason teams. The rewards of that exercise are hard to quantify, which is a euphemistic was of saying…

  15. In Brief: NL Playoff Preview

    We're going a different route with this than we did with the AL Playoff Preview, which took parts one , two , and three . That took us three weeks to complete, this going to be quick. Readers, please take it for what…

  16. 2010 MVP & Cy Young Awards

    Everyone else is doing it, so here are our predictions. These are not predictions of who will win, but rather whom we believe should win. American League Most Valuable Player Josh Hamilton, Rangers In my heart of…

  17. Major League Clearance Rack

    Here's a quick look at a few relatively expensive players rumored to be available via trade, with the trading team likely to eat a bit of the players upcoming salary. Kosuke Fukudome, Cubs Before the world changed…

  18. The Bright Future of Logan Morrison

    We can't be the only ones who are beyond excited about the prospects of Logan Morrison's future. Can we? Sure, his friends and family are thrilled for him. There are probably about eleven thousand hard core Marlins fans…

  19. Sizing Up the AL Playoffs, Part III

    Anticlimactic (an-ti-cli- mac -tic) adj: of, relating to, or marked by an outcome that is strikingly less important than expected. Ouch. We have been hoping that dabbling with baseball statistics for the Yankees, Rays,…

  20. Happiness

    Getting my mind around this involved Sizing Up the AL Playoffs project that I've gotten myself into has been a bit frustrating, if only because I'm just not happy with it. I think it was fun for a while, and could be…

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