Archive for June 2009

Adam presents an updated economic framework for baseball trades.

In a sequel to a column from last year, Chris looks at the most pathetic starting lineups ever held hitless.

As interleague closes out, the AL holds eight of the top ten spots in our rankings.

Reds 8, Indians 1: It was Brandon Phillips’ birthday and he beat up his old team to celebrate (3-5, 3 RBI). But he overplayed it: “It’s good to have a game like I did today, especially on my birthday and against the guys you used to play for. Today, I was like, ‘I’m going to […]

I was on News-Talk 1400 WDWS AM’s SportsTalk show this afternoon talking baseball with host Brian Moline. You can hear the broadcast — in fancy podcast form — here. I come in at the four minute mark, and we talk about blogging, the Cardinals, the Cubs, Geoff Baker, Sir Sidney and a few other things. […]

They claim that Sir Sidney tested positive for a stimulant: Kansas City Royals pitcher Sidney Ponson tested positive for a stimulant during the World Baseball Classic and has been banned from international competition for two years. Major League Baseball will not suspend Ponson. Under the drug rules, he will be treated as a first-time offender […]

From Heyman: Albert Pujols, for all his heroics this year, has one hit with a RISP and two outs (1 for 14, with 15 BB and 10 IBB), and as Joel Sherman of the New York Post (and SI.com) pointed out, Mets’ youngster Nick Evan passed Pujols with two in two days vs. Pujols’ Cardinals. […]

Slate has a good article up arguing the superiority of the dead-center camera over the traditional, slightly-offset camera. I’m in favor of the dead-center, which ESPN toyed with for a year or two and which the Red Sox, Cardinals and Twins use now. This dissent from the article is understandable, however: There are also television […]

I’m going to spare everyone the big Michael Jackson post I was going to write because (a) it represented mission creep even for me; and (b) it wasn’t coming together all that well. Jonah has a good one up if you’re curious. I’ll just say this: Michael Jackson and his handlers probably spent most of […]

Does this give me license to go off topic and dive into a Posnanskian-length Michael Jackson essay when I get some time later today? The year was 1976. Farrah Fawcett had the poster that was on walls everywhere. Michael Jackson was fronting “The Jacksons” — as the band started off on its own a year […]