Some quick thoughts on Moneyball, which I saw for the first time Wednesday night. • The real life baseball clips were great, especially the opening scene. It is never not a good thing to portray the Yankees as bad guys. • Jonah Hill’s Peter Brand is almost a pitch perfect character. The awkwardness around Pitt’s [...]
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In case there is any doubt that the Baseball Hall of Fame is stumbling into irrelevancy, consider this. Jack Morris will probably get elected to the Hall of Fame next year. 2013 ballot newcomers Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will not. I’m not here to reopen or continue the grating debate about Morris’s candidacy. I’m [...]
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Somewhere in the fan hubbub surrounding Fred Wilpon’s comments in a New Yorker piece chronicling his financial history, is this idea that the proprietor’s harsh words stem from anger about having to pay underperforming stars. Naturally, the name I heard complained about most by WFAN callers was none other than Carlos Beltran’s. Well I’m here to write something none of them will read to quash that shit.
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March has sprung into April, teams have headed north from the sour Grapefruit and prickly Cactus Leagues, and a new season is upon us. That’s right, folks, it’s time for my 2011 Major League Baseball preview. It’s always exciting to know that baseball is guaranteed to get another World Series Champion, unless of course the [...]
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If you’re a stand-up comedy fan, then you have no doubt seen or heard Louis C.K. in some capacity. In one of his recent hours of comedy (I want to say it was from Hilarious), he does a great bit on people and their interactions with technology. You can see the bit here, but I’ve transcribed the part that holds pertinent for this particular post:
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One thing I can tell you about Port St. Lucie: It is not Las Vegas. What happens in Port St. Lucie does not stay in Port St. Lucie. Thanks to the Internet, news from Mets spring training camp can be viewed all over the world, even from call centers in India…oh, did I tell you [...]
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I’m sick of those obnoxious holier-than-thou baseball writers who voted to keep guys like Jeff Bagwell and Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro out of the Hall of Fame with the bullshit pretense that they’re taking a stand against cheating. News flash! Cheating’s been in baseball for a long effing time. In the ‘50s and ‘60’s, [...]
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In the very first article on this site, Sabometrics wrote Why Jeff Francoeur Could (But Probably Won’t) Walk 60 Times. This site opened with hope that certain Mets players could play above and beyond their track records and maybe, just maybe, the Mets could contend. Yet, sadly, we know what is happening to this Mets [...]
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F@#* it. I mean really. I’ve been apathetic about this team for quite some time. Part of it is the mongo fans who have bought into the Kool Aid the cheap or insolvent ownership is selling. But the greater part of it is the cheap or insolvent ownership, and their puppet, Omar Minaya, and manager, [...]
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