On Twitter, Jesse Lund puts up this amazing — absolutely amazing — screen shot from the Friday night broadcast of the Yankees and Twins. It may be the greatest thing ever produced by man, including Hamlet and The Godfather and chocolate cake with raspberry sauce. Perfection in Jeteration is when you can so perfectly present…
Month: May 2014
Mighty
The Outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day The score stood four to two with but one inning left to play The visitors brought in Glen Perkins, a lefty with some heat He struck out the first two batters and the save was near complete A straggling many got up to go in…
Walks and attendance and looking for reasons
The human mind has no problem coming up with reasons for things. It’s in our nature. These reasons are often wrong or wildly exaggerated or too simplistic … but they tend to be entertaining. And they do lock in. For instance, if you ask why offense skyrocketed in baseball in the 1990s, I suspect most…
Celebrating … batting average?
We spend a lot of time at our little site here talking about the drawbacks and flaws of batting average. You know the problems … though I’ll go over them again for old time’s sake. Batting average discounts walks as non-events. Batting average counts some fly balls as outs and ignores others entirely. If you…
Good on Kansas State
I’m seeing quite a bit of “well it took long enough” comments out there … but I don’t see that. Tuesday, Kansas State granted Leticia Romero’s request to transfer to any non-Big 12 school. It seems to me that’s a reasonable limitation set by the school. Romero can now find a comfortable place for her…
Hot goalies and tough love
Couple of things up today: 1. This was fun, I tried to look a little bit at the mystery of the hot goalie through the the hottest goalie going these days, the Rangers Henrik Lundqvist. Tango added a couple of interesting thoughts about separating goalie performance from defensive performance, Sounds like we need a DIG…
Let her go
Kansas State is one of my favorite schools. I am required by law to say this because my wife attended Kansas State; so did my sister-in-law and brother-in-law, some of my best friends and Darren Sproles. But it would be true anyway. I like Kansas State a lot because the place has this wonderful spirit,…
Notes on a waiter spilling stuff on me
The point here, I promise, is not to complain. The point here, I promise, is not to gripe about the times when we live or the loss of customer service or any of that stuff. Now, let’s see if I can actually write this in a way where I get to a point. At lunch…
A Football Man in a Baseball World
This is random, I know, but today for some reason I ran across this story I did on former White Sox GM and current Executive Vice President Kenny Williams. It’s one of my favorite ever stories.
The Pitching Tango
I have spent way too much energy in my life trying to convince people to stop caring about the pitcher’s win. Fine. Care. But if you do, why not use a better win system. Introducing: The Tango.