Neyer has more on Scioscia trying to rationalize his horrible misjudgment of Napoli. A few points: The Napoli for an $85 million anvil deal is the most irrational organizational move in many, many years, and everyone with decision-making authority in the Angels organization has to...
baseball
The resounding success of Mike Napoli after years of Mike Scioscia trying his best not to use him and them dumping him for nothing has finally put a dent into.
I'm not sure whether LaRussa's explanation for why Motte wasn't brought in is too implausible to be true or so implausible it has to be true. At any rate, even.
Every time God Bless America is played during the seventh inning stretch the terrorists score a major victory. Also, bases-empty intentional walks -- even to hitters as great as Pujols and Cabrera -- are nuts. ...I'm rooting for Cards, but it's still gratifying to see...
To paraphrase Tony Kennedy, we sometimes must write blog posts we do not like. I normally use the title phrase pejoratively, and I'm not claiming to like or root for.
I recently watched Alex Gibney's Catching Hell, which was excellent. Linking together two unjust scapegoats -- Buckner and Steve Bartman -- it perhaps belabors the point about the fake "curses".
Congrats to the co-MVPs of Game 5 4, Nelson Cruz and Mike Scioscia.
I don't understand this: Thus we get the Boston Red Sox's John Henry, champion of data-driven rational decision-making, dumping a two-time championship manager because a team projected to win 94.
Great two days, wasn't it? Three elimination games, all classics. I'll be very happy to make a donation to Planned Parenthood for my reverse-hedge bet with Howard. For the championship.
This has to be the easiest to watch and most pleasant set of championship series in some time. Most right-thinking people without explicit rooting ties to the other two teams will be rooting for a Milwaukee-Detroit World Series, though who could really complain about the...
...for someone. Hopefully the home team. If I wanted to be optimistic, I could point out that while the Yankee starter in Game 4 was a better bet than the.
Take lessons from Farley, because he's doing it right. It's especially appropriate that this arrived in time for what might be the greatest day of the year, Yankee Elimination Day!.