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P&P MLB Predictions 2012: Opening Day!

Posted on April 5, 2012 by admin

You thought we’d let the trend of the moment pass us by without offering up our own misguided attempts at humor and/or strangeness? You thought wrong! Here are the P&P team’s predictions for the now-underway 2012 Major League Baseball Season: … Continue reading →

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Where Nothing’s Ever Wrong: A Fan’s Inquiry Into the Role of the Baseball Rumor

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Ted

There were two astronomically important free agents on the market this off-season, and a constellation of three more high-profile players to fill the offseason skies and guide the navigation of the fleets of baseball’s rumor mongers. Messages like naval mail … Continue reading →

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Open Book Baseball: An Interview with Alyson Footer, the Houston Astros’ Sr. Director of Social Media

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Ted

Baseball is known for clinging to old paradigms, and hugging out-moded–ahem, traditional–viewpoints on media, culture, technology, and copyright. Some figures in the baseball media even pride themselves on their vintage-inspired view of the game. Alyson Footer is no such figure. … Continue reading →

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P&P Pointless Predictions 2011: NL East

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ted

The Philadelphia Phillies‘ starting rotation looms in the distance like a monolith. Baseball fans talk about it the way the druids (fact check?) must have whispered about Stonehenge on the pilgrimage path. Last year I watched Cliff Lee eviscerate AL … 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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