Month: August 2011

So, here’s the challenge to Brilliant Readers: Come up with words that only seem to be in sports. The baseline spoword — which you might have heard on the Poscast — is “ensuing.” This, of course, is always followed by the word “kickoff.” What I’m looking for here — and yes, I’m asking you to…

I have just posted my last Poscast for a while. It is with Michael Schur (of course) and it is particularly long (of course). This one is long enough that my wife Margo, who has nobly served as producer since the very first Poscast, is only now starting to speak to me again. Her vision…

Questions: Do statistics take the wonder out of our sports? Do statistics drain the humanity out of them? Do statistics pull our eyes away from the fields and diamonds and courts and toward the ledger book? Do statistics make us less appreciative of the most important things in life, qualities that we intuitively understand are…

First a little award history: The Baseball Writers started to give out the Cy Young Award for best pitcher in 1956. For the first 11 years of the award, only one Cy Young Award was given out, covering both the American and National League. Over those 11 years, two pitchers — Don Newcombe in that…

A few days ago, I explained that I’m looking at my American League MVP vote a little bit differently this year. I’m going to vote for the best player. That’s all. I’ve only voted for the MVP one other time, I believe, and I voted for who I thought was the best player then too…