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Category Archives: Thinking
Pity
One thing Ken will always get is the respect and dignity he deserves in this game,” Zduriencik said. “And he’ll always get that from this organization and this community, and he deserves that. You should read Dave Cameron’s recent rant … Continue reading
Evan Longoria is the New Joe Mauer
I was lucky to sit behind home plate at last night’s Rays-Mariners game in Seattle. It was freezing. And aside from the cringing and the averting my eyes with each successive backwards K for Milton Bradley and sad, flailing swing … Continue reading
On Sabermetric Transparency
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
Posted in Conventional Wisdom, Media, Stats, Thinking, Walkoff Walk
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Revisiting the Tragic Hero: Do We Still Hate A-Rod?
Exactly one year ago today, I posted the first entry in a three-part series on Alex Rodriguez. My goal was to examine A-Rod as a Shakespearian tragic hero. In the meantime, the Yankees won the World Series, and Rodriguez tore … Continue reading
Posted in Thinking
Tagged Alex Rodriguez, Chase Utley, Hanley Ramirez, new york yankees, Shakespeare, Tragic Hero
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The Way You Look Tonight
I’ve made the switch from Times New Roman to Garamond for my every day typing. There was something about Times New Roman that made the words seem intimidating as they appeared on the screen. As if each serif, each dark … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball Culture, Media, Technology, Thinking
Tagged Aesthetics, Beerleaguer, Blogs, Dadspin, Fernando Valenzuela, fonts, Joe Posnanski, Josh Wilker, Mike Scioscia
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Crowd the Hall
About two decades before the birth of Jesus Christ, construction began on what some historians have called the first Hall of Fame. It was conceived of by the Roman Emperor Augustus as a way to honor his gods, his ancestors, … Continue reading
The Noble Hearts Ache
Today is the first day since the World Series ended that I have felt a compulsion to write about baseball. It’s a good feeling, this impulse, and I was beginning to worry it would never return. But really I should … Continue reading
Five Things
I. I had the chance to wander around outside of Yankee Stadium for an hour or so before Game Six. I’ll use clichés to describe the atmosphere: you could cut the tension with a knife, the air was electric (the … Continue reading
Posted in Thinking
Tagged Cliches, George Steinbrenner, John Wayne, new york yankees, Yankee Stadium, yankees
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Obvious and Mysterious: An Intuitive Taxonomy of Pitching Watching
The first two World Series games have featured some fantastic starting pitching. Perplexing pitching, in which in one notable case the Great Baseball Equation–on one side the input of the pitcher and on the other the output of the hitter–doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Thinking
Tagged cliff lee, Jack Kerouac, Pitching, Vladimir Nabokov, world series
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