Rambling about Cliff Lee & the Yankees
It’s been a while since I’ve written a lot of words on something and I have all of these different thoughts and questions swirling around my head about this whole Cliff Lee deal… it seems like a good...
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Can’t Resist a Good Mystery
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when everyone was pretending that Derek Jeter might sign with a team other than the Yankees? At the time, someone over at The Beckett Blog took it upon themselves to...
View ArticleMaddux and Lee at THT
Just a quick note while I’m stuck in a computer training seminar (sans computers!) all day. With Cliff Lee signing with the Phillies over the Yankees yesterday, it inspired me to write a post over at...
View ArticleMatching rotations spots & the Phils “Four Aces”: How many games will the no....
Halladay. Lee. Hamels. Oswalt. There’s been a lot of ink spilled this week about the new Phillies rotation, featuring their “four aces”. After signing Roy Halladay last year and then trading for Roy...
View ArticleThe Dance of Joy (and why your trade proposal sucks)
This Zack Greinke-to-Milwaukee trade has got me so excited I don’t know what to do. Been excitedly smiling and talking Brewers baseball all morning. On December 19, no less. Can’t complain about that....
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Merry Christmas, everyone! (plus, A Charlie Brown Christmas)
The first Christmas of writing this blog (two whole years ago now!) I did something that I thought would be a little fun for everyone: I collected some of my favorite baseball-related Peanuts strips...
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My Annual Pitch for SABR (it’s more than stats & research!)
Later on this afternoon, after I finish writing this post and maybe going for a walk by the lake on a beautiful winter vacation day, I will be renewing my membership to the Society of American Baseball...
View ArticleCollusion and Jack Morris as the “Pitcher of the ’80s”
In my latest post over at The Hardball Times, I go back to the 1980s to try and find out when the narrative of Jack Morris as “the pitcher of ’80s” came into being: His supporters like to appeal to the...
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Jack Morris & the Terry-Cloth Solution
Presented without comment, from the October 22, 1990, issue of Sports Illustrated. Here’s a screengrab of the third paragraph of Sally Jenkins’ piece: And the text, in case the image is hard to read:...
View ArticleThe Origin of the Blyleven Narrative
Earlier this week, over at The Hardball Times, I took a look back at some 1980s newspapers to show that the whole “Jack Morris as Pitcher of the ‘80s” thing has been around at least since the winter of...
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