Monthly Archives: April 2010

Podcast 5: Surprisingly Modern

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Eric

Welcome to Podcast no. 5. In this edition: -Eric gets the score of the Dodgers-Pirates Opener wrong. (Some fan). -Ted defends Obama’s White Sox/Nats Opening Day ensemble. -Fantasy Baseball and what Ted refers to as “the sliding sports.” -More about … Continue reading →

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Chatting: Early Season Predictions from My Friend Ben

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Ted

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Book Review: Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilker

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Eric

Cardboard Gods: an All-American Tale Told through Baseball Cards is not, as its cover and title may indicate, an innocuous book. It is not even a book about baseball cards. Instead, it is a book about baseball fandom, and how … Continue reading →

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Life in The Show, Volume 1

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Ted

Eric has his Little League baseball team, and me? I’ve got the Playstation 3. So in the spirit of one downsmanship, I will be tracking my year on the virtual field, playing MLB 10: The Show, a masterpiece of a … Continue reading →

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It Takes Tui

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Ted

Just when you think that baseball is becoming too specialized, when stats are taking over, when the media has made the game into some freakish mutation that used to be a game, you see something like I just saw in … Continue reading →

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On Sabermetric Transparency

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Eric

Over at Walkoff Walk, 310toJoba (somebody get this guy a first name), writes about the mega-awesome-super news that Bill Simmons, the internet voice of the Sports Media Industrial Complex has officially embraced sabermetrics. This is a major (if inevitable coup) … Continue reading →

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PnP Podcast Episode IV: A New Hope

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Eric

Sorry for the technical difficulties in getting this up. In Episode IV: A New Hope, Ted and I get ready for Opening Day. Among the topics of discussion: 1. Sad veterans getting cut (Kevin Millar) and happy veterans making teams … Continue reading →

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The All-Meteorological Team via EFQ

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Ted

The All-Meteorological Team was published in Elysian Fields Quarterly, the baseball journal whose publishing status remains hazy. Horowitz does a fantastic series of All-Something Teams, of which this is just one. The All-Meteorologic Team By Mikhail Horowitz C - Blimp Hayes 1B … Continue reading →

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