Baseball, like life, revolves around anticlimax. That in many ways is the beauty of it. I realize that’s a hard thing to explain to someone who doesn’t love baseball, no, more than hard, it’s an impossible thing to explain because many people want sports to be more than life, they follow sports to jolt them…
Month: September 2011
Baseball Night in America
Baseball, like life, revolves around anticlimax. That in many ways is the beauty of it. I realize that’s a hard thing to explain to someone who doesn’t love baseball, no, more than hard, it’s an impossible thing to explain because many people want sports to be more than life, they follow sports to jolt them…
Two Ways To Look At MVP Voting
Today at 1 p.m., I’ll have a live baseball chat about whatever it is that people might want to talk about. But I suspect a large part of it will be some MVP talk. I’ve got to make my American League MVP choices today, and even though I have my list of 10 pretty well…
Two Ways To Look At MVP Voting
Today at 1 p.m., I’ll have a live baseball chat about whatever it is that people might want to talk about. But I suspect a large part of it will be some MVP talk. I’ve got to make my American League MVP choices today, and even though I have my list of 10 pretty well…
Awards and Muppets
So, over the weekend, I was named Best Sportswriter in the “Untitled Sports Media Awards Project” at the Blogs With Balls Conference. No matter how many times you read over the previous sentence, it probably will not make any sense so just go with it. I’m not a big awards guy, but it’s always cool…
Awards and Muppets
So, over the weekend, I was named Best Sportswriter in the “Untitled Sports Media Awards Project” at the Blogs With Balls Conference. No matter how many times you read over the previous sentence, it probably will not make any sense so just go with it. I’m not a big awards guy, but it’s always cool…
The Obvious MVP Choice
A political story: A few years ago, back when George Bush and Al Gore were still locked down in their post-election hanging-chad Florida tango, I saw something on television that surprised me. There was a politician, no idea his name, who stepped on camera and said something like this: “Look, this is an election for…
The Obvious MVP Choice
A political story: A few years ago, back when George Bush and Al Gore were still locked down in their post-election hanging-chad Florida tango, I saw something on television that surprised me. There was a politician, no idea his name, who stepped on camera and said something like this: “Look, this is an election for…
Moneyball The Movie
WARNING: I don’t THINK there are any spoilers or plot giveaways here — I suspect most of you know that Moneyball The Movie is about the 2002 Oakland A’s and their attempt to win with new baseball knowledge — but if you are the sort of person who likes to go into a movie with…
Moneyball The Movie
WARNING: I don’t THINK there are any spoilers or plot giveaways here — I suspect most of you know that Moneyball The Movie is about the 2002 Oakland A’s and their attempt to win with new baseball knowledge — but if you are the sort of person who likes to go into a movie with…