Joe Posnanski
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2016 Hall of Fame "Ballot"
The BBWAA will announce the players they elected to the Hall of Fame at 6pm ET tomorrow. Let's get our faux ballot on the record before it's too late. Since we started doing this six years ago, below is a list of the…
Green Wave Arms Race
It's nice to see a pitching prospect at Tulane with a sense of humor. Two months ago, in a piece on Hall of Fame basketball coach Greg Popovich , Joe Posnanski relayed a tale you may remember: Someone asks him how he…
Ryan Zimmerman's DL Stint w/Charlie Sheen
The Washington Nationals have an 8-7 record in this young season.* They have managed to actually have a better record since Ryan Zimmerman went down with an abdominal injury. They went 3-5 with Zimmerman and 5-2 without…
Traveling Man
Sitting on a balcony in South Beach, Miami, staring across the Atlantic Ocean, with a purple haze funk in the air, my thoughts take me to Spring Training. I'm looking forward to my good friend's wedding this weekend,…
Posnanski's Every Run Average
This past week, our favorite writer, Joe Posnanski had a great run. He produced more than a handful or columns, including four that really stood out. Here is Joe's Sparky Anderson eulogy , a ranking of the weakest World…
Top 50 Baseball Players
ESPN.com's Bill Simmons does an NBA column like this every season. He calls it the NBA Trade Value column, and he decides to rank the Top 50 most valuable players in the NBA. Age, future performance, and contract status…
Top 100 Sports Books
Over the weekend, Joe Posnanski was inspired by this , and wrote this , where he mentions that he will be putting together his list for top 100 sports books. Asking for reader nominations, here are the rules... 1. All…
JoPo's Strasburg Live Blog
Blog favorite, Joe Posnanski, is doing a live blog for Stephen Strasburg's debut. We were thinking of doing the same but are more than happy to sit back, relax, and enjoy Poz's thoughts on the inning-by-inning action.…
Public Enemy: Jim Joyce
As Joe Posnanski eloquently alluded to after Roy Halladay's perfect game on Saturday , perfect games and near-perfect games are all the rage. Tiger fans should be celebrating the franchise's first ever perfect game…
Stroll Down Memory (bowling) Lane
This is not a baseball post. In fact, there is no originality on my part. I just want to share a recent Posnanski blog post, which I enjoyed very much. My favorite part: " My father worked in a factory, brutal work, six…
Hall of Fame Voting
Now is a great time to read baseball articles from around the country, as Hall of Fame voters often write columns announcing and defending their ballots for next spring's induction. Voters get to vote for a maximum of…
Posnanski's Latest
We'll have our highly anticipated July 1 post up later today. Here is something to hold you over, if you're sitting in your office with not a lot to do. As we've said here many times, Joe Posnanski is the best. If you…
Case of the Mondays
It's a slow day around Major League Baseball, as there are only four games on the docket. Cubs @ Atlanta Ryan Dempster vs Javier Vazquez This is a makeup game, due to a rain out. So, the Cubs had to fly from Chicago to…
Browsing the Interweb
So, the Cubs are sitting in a rain delay at Wrigley Field, hosting Cliff Lee and the Cleveland Indians. I thought it'd be nice to share a look at what's been out their on the ol' www... The Cubs currently sport a 31-31…
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