Ken Griffey Jr. has retired. It's impossible to overstate Griffey's importance to Seattle baseball, or the excitement in the Northwest over the idea of having a genuine Hall of Famer to watch. His years in Cincinnati were less distinguished, of course, and his coda in...
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I have created an LGM World Cup Challenge group at ESPN: Group Name: Lawyers, Guns and Money Password: zevon Deadline is June 11. Speaking of pointless competition, here are the.
Proposition: If a mad scientist undertook to create "Joey Votto" in a lab, the result could not look more like "Joey Votto" than the actual Joey Votto. Discuss.
It was easy to make fun of his hot-dog bravado in the face of historic incompetence, but ultimately you had to admire the irrepressible joy he took in the game. He made plenty of money but was still willing to go to Edmonton to pitch...
I noted on Facebook that, from a statistical perspective, what makes baseball such an amazing sport is that you can watch it your entire life and still see, on a.
I'm not sure what was more painful, watching this game in general or listening to Tim McCarver repeatedly trying and failing to pronounce "Tuiasosopo."
Another great tribute from Posnanski. Roberts was just a tremendous pitcher for his first 8 years (and had a second wave of very good pitching after joining the Orioles in the 60s), although because of the relative failure of his teams doesn't seem to get...
Over at ID, I respond to some noodlings on baseball and naval force structure.
Cockcroft and Ravitz have a nice little article on the 30th anniversary of the first fantasy baseball league. The highlight of the story is the discussion of the best fantasy.
East: 1. Phi 2. Atl 3. Fla 4. NYM 5. Was I suppose on some level the Phillies are more vulnerable than they might seem; they feel like a great team and have the core of one, but this core has yet to win more...
East: 1. NYY 2. BOS (*) 3. TB 4. BAL 5. TOR I don't like it either, but let's start here: the Yankees were the best team in baseball last.
Watching Mike Jacobs up there hacking is almost enough to make me miss Daniel "the poor man's Ed Kranepool" Murphy....