After a long, bitter fight, the LGM Baseball Challenge Challenge has been decided. The lead changed numerous times this week, including several times yesterday; finally, the Yankees pitching staff produced enough points in the second half of the doubleheader to deliver the championship to the...
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On the way into Shea yesterday, I expressed with my agreement with metsgrrl's partner, believing that since the Mets would probably have to win two games anyway it would have.
If they're going to pitch around you, take the goddamned walk. I know you're been trained to think as an "RBI man" but flailing at a pitch a foot and.
Like Sheehan, I didn't see it coming, but Tampa making the playoffs in a brutally tough division is one of the most remarkable baseball stories of the decade. Congrats to 'em, and it will be fun to see how they do in the payoffs. (I...
Ned Yost has been fired, with his team tied for the NL wild card spot and 13 days left in the season. Can't think of any precedent for something like.
...Great American was filled with vermin. These particular vermin were wearing blue shirts, typically festooned with a red "C" and including some form of adolescent bear. Roughly 70% of the.
. . . when you're old enough to repay, but young enough to sell?I gather Alex Rodriguez was booed mercilessly last night for single-handedly destroying the Yanqui season. NYY seems headed towards a dodgy transitional year or three (ARod will be 34 next summer and...
Many thanks to frequent commenter Howard for generously sending me the classics Out To Lunch and Underground from the ol' wish list. Supoib choices, and as they are now freshly.
In my defense, I was engaged in Real Work and had the Devil Rays/Sox game on in the background, so I needed the sound. But as bad as seeing the.
One way of sorting out peoples' politics of law is to ask them if they find Harry Blackmun's opinion for the Court in Roe v. Wade or Flood v. Kuhn more jurisprudentially offensive. (Flood held that, in order to avoid reversing a half-century-old precedent, baseball's...
I've neglected to mention that the great Roy Edroso is now blogging for the Voice. Today, he brings some of the bad news about Citi Field for those of us.
My friend Steve is an atmospheric scientist and a hardcore baseball fan. He's devised an ingenious simulation, in which he predicts the probable outcome of the remainder of a baseball.