I was doing some reading on ESPN and got to thinking about who I’d pick to make the Baseball Hall of Fame. There are two reasons to do this: 1) just a fun mental exercise and 2) to realize how entirely ruined baseball’s history is. Here’s how it works, a voter gets to put a [...]
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Who I’d Vote For if I Had a MLB Hall of Fame Ballot
Posted in Baseball on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What is Manny Ramirez’s Fantasy Value?
Posted in Baseball on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My fantasy baseball draft is in two weeks or so and my fantasy team name is The Reverse Cowgirls, so I have a lot to live up too. Both ESPN and Yahoo (where I play) have Manny ranked as the 28th player to be drafted. The other night, while doing research I changed my personal [...]
MLB Season Review
Posted in Baseball on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Force is strong with me. Here’s what I predicted at the start of the baseball season: AL playoff teams: Angles, Red Sox, Indians, Tigers. NL playoff teams: Diamondbacks, Cubs, Braves, Phillies. Ok, so I completely misjudged the AL central, but who in their right mind saw the White Sox coming out of that division? [...]
The Merkle Curse
Posted in Baseball, Commentary & Analysis on September 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Today, September 23 2008, is the 100 year anniversary of what I believe is erroneously called “The Merkle Boner.” Let me set the scene. The Cubs are playing the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds on this very day in 1908. These two teams were in a tight race for the National League pennant [...]
Go Well But Go Away: the Mike Hampton Story
Posted in Baseball on July 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I usually love the trade deadline in baseball. If you team is buying, then it’s exciting to wonder who they will land in a trade and how that person will make your team better. If your team is selling, then it’s exciting to see who you can trade and what you can get in return, [...]
Say It Ain’t So!!!
Posted in Baseball on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
These be fightin’ words! MLB.com is reporting that the Braves are willing to trade Jeff Francoeur. Seriously?!?! Fran Wren, I know you read this site diligently so listen up. What are you thinking? You want to trade one of the most popular players on the team, a guy who is marketable, and a guy who has [...]
What’s the Score?
Posted in Baseball on July 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In the Rally Cap Etiquette post I mentioned that after attending a 17 inning Braves game with my family I came up with 2 important questions that needed to be debated. The first was when to don a rally cap and the implications of it. The second, which is the subject of this post, has [...]
Rally Cap Etiquette
Posted in Baseball, Commentary & Analysis on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So I went with the family to a Braves game last weekend. It was an insane game that brought up two questions that I think we need to make a final ruling on. The first question, which this post will deal with, is around the wearing of a rally cap. In case you missed it, [...]
Waiting on Redemption: Why I’m an Even Bigger Francoeur Fan and Might Be Going to Jail
Posted in Baseball, Commentary & Analysis on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the Braves optioned Jeff Francoeur to AA Mississippi. I can’t believe that I had to write the above sentence. If you look back at my Braves season preview, you’ll see that I predicted a monster year from him. Furthermore, in that same post I admitted that Frenchy was my favorite current Brave and in [...]
I Wanna Hear the Song (But Which One?)
Posted in Baseball, Commentary & Analysis on October 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Cubs and I have had a tumultuous relationship over the last couple of years. I’ve always been a Braves fan, but as a kid I liked coming home from school and catching the Cubs on WGN, listening to Harry Caray, and watching as they blew a lead in the 9th. But then something happened [...]
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