Dec - 16th
Bisons
Posted at 1:52 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
After a fourteen-year run as the affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, my hometown Buffalo Bisons will be a farm club for the New York Mets. Accordingly, the team is ushering in new colors and a new logo...
Image: MiLB
It's not that bad; I like the colors, but maybe there is too much emphasis on the Mets [...]
Dec - 15th
Dot-Me
Posted at 1:03 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Inspired by a heated discussion at work today -- on the topic of Jason Kendall, no less, the worst player in Oakland A's history; I think I won that debate -- I am thinking of starting a baseball-themed website.
Unfortunately, every domain known to man has been squatted, so I was left with either thenineteenthbestbaseballwebsite-dot-com or [...]
Nov - 6th
Still No Respect
Posted at 10:47 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Despite winning a long-deserved World Series championship, the Phillies only managed to garner 491 votes nationally in the presidential election, far below the respectable 19,000 votes Ron Paul received...
Image: CNN.com
Oh, maybe the votes were cast for this guy, and not the baseball team. The voters were probably confused though, especially those fickle undecideds.
Oct - 13th
Rooting Against The Phillies
Posted at 1:13 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Although the fans in Los Angeles are anything but great, or even deserving of a team in the World Series, I cannot root for the Philadelphia Phillies for the following two reasons...
(1) Philadelphia fans. They are despicable; they are not human; and most of them deserve to be shot. Philly fans treat their teams in [...]
Sep - 10th
For Love of the Game
Posted at 12:04 pm | Filed Under Film Retrospective
I rented this based on a reader recommendation which led to me listing the best baseball films of all-time. It should be noted however -- for the record -- that the reader recommendation was sorely off, and that my list still stands.
(Returned 09/08/08.)
Rent with Netflix.
Aug - 20th
Pathetic Boston Fans
Posted at 11:56 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
If I could list the top areas in the U.S. that I would choose to live, Boston would be right up there. The major flaw for Boston is its sports fans however. Boston fans kill themselves over close games -- even if they are the defending world champs -- and I've discussed the subject during [...]
Aug - 18th
Rays Redux
Posted at 2:06 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
The chaos continues... is the apocalypse near?
As of today, August 18, 2008, the Tampa Bay Rays are leading the American League East division (although they no longer hold the best record in baseball).
Jul - 8th
Take Me Out
Posted at 1:23 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Long-time listeners of the A's Superfan Network are well-aware of my disdain for the ubiquitous seventh-inning stretch number that is played in every stadium, truly the bane of the game, Take Me Out to the Ballgame. A recent investigation by ESPN reveals that we can thank the Cubs for the horrific sideshow. I say, bring [...]
Jul - 3rd
Rays
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Filed in the "believe it, it's true" category of useless information... as of the fourth of July, the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays will have the best record in all of baseball.
Dear readers, fear not, I will continue to monitor this disturbing trend.
Jun - 4th
Like Having A Dog
Posted at 12:01 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
"He's like having a dog - you have him for 10 years, he does strange things, you always end up forgiving him, he always comes through when you least expect it, and then when it's over, you remember him fondly." -- Bill Simmons, discussing Manny Ramirez and his 500th career home run.
May - 27th
Payroll Parity
Posted at 10:38 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Baseball junkies need to start tracking this. As of today, the top two teams in baseball are the Tampa Bay Rays and the Florida Marlins, the two teams with the lowest payrolls. How long will this last? (The Marlins' payroll -- the lowest in baseball -- is one-tenth of the New York Yankees' payroll, a [...]
Apr - 24th
Thomas Returns, No Money Down
Posted at 11:16 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
In baseball news, my Oakland Athletics landed a shadow of a slugger in Frank Thomas today. Thomas had been with the club a couple years ago. I would say that Thomas is now the most overpaid player in team history (after Jason Kendall, that is), but the A's will only pay the designated hitter $337k.
The [...]
Jan - 31st
Currently Reading
Posted at 3:16 pm | Filed Under Reading
I've finished The Fourth Bear, a truly interesting book. My wife picked it up and read a couple pages while waiting for me, and she continues to give me strange looks as a result. It is purely fantastical, which was welcome during this heated election season, but it was more of a children's book than [...]
Jan - 5th
Historical Results Should Comfort Clinton (*)
Posted at 11:22 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Many Clinton fans are upset -- and rightfully discouraged -- following the third-place finish in Iowa, however not-so-distant history should comfort them, well, at least somewhat.
In 1992, the year of Bill Clinton's rise, the Iowa caucus results were as follows...Tom Harkin (76%)"Uncommitted" (12%)Paul Tsongas (4%)Bill Clinton (3%)Bob Kerrey (2%)Jerry Brown (2%)
Well-read readers will recognize that [...]
Dec - 21st
Best Baseball Films
Posted at 10:53 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Yesterday, I reviewed Major League in my film retrospective series, and noted that the film is in the top five baseball movies, and the best baseball comedy. That may not be the case. Instead of updating the post, or appending a comment to the post, the topic of the best baseball movies is good enough [...]
Nov - 15th
Free Bonds
Posted at 11:23 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
It stuns me to learn that former Giants slugger Barry Bonds has been indicted for lying about using performance-enhancing drugs to hit more home runs when former presidential nominee Bob Dole admitted to using drugs to enhance his performance in the bedroom, to score more home runs with his wife, and nothing happened. It is [...]
Nov - 2nd
In the News
Posted at 9:09 am | Filed Under In the News
The Friday edition.
- I usually don't have respect for murderers, besides OJ Simpson (he is just so lovable in those Naked Gun films), but one has to respect the audacity of Scott Peterson's request to collect on his wife's life insurance policy. I really need to go to law school to take advantage of this [...]
Oct - 24th
Coors Presents
Posted at 4:19 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I will be rooting for the Colorado Rockies (and I hope you do too) in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. I offer three reasons for consideration...
(1) Let's face it, the democrats have Massachusetts all sewn up. What the democrats need is Colorado's electoral votes. Maybe a World Series win will change the [...]
Oct - 18th
Attributing Esspin
Posted at 10:52 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
A columnist for the ESPN.com website, Jim Caple, who I assume gets paid, has made the exact same point (and dedicates an entire column to the subject) that I expressed last week, that unnecessary (non-travel) days off in the playoffs is a bad idea. However, it comes without attribution, which apparently only goes one way [...]
Oct - 16th
The Cleveland Indians Expansion Curse
Posted at 8:24 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
The Cleveland Indians had a chance at two World Series titles in the mid nineties, in 1995 against the Atlanta Braves, the team of the decade, and then two years later against the Florida Marlins, in only the Marlins' fifth season of existence. The Indians lost to the Marlins in seven games, in what has [...]
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