A stream of consciousness farewell to a personal icon. History is always personal.
Category: MLB
Fun With Numbers: Andruw Jones
I’m sorry, guys, but this ain’t it. Andruw Jones‘ case for the Hall of Fame is borderline at best. And he has no place in Cooperstown before other Braves-related unfinished business gets addressed.
Fun With Numbers: Mark Buehrle
In the premiere submission for Fun With Numbers, Bronx to Bushville co-founder Brent Sirvio’s 2020 IBWAA Hall of Fame Ballot series, we look at a pitcher whose numbers do not adequately paint a Hall of Fame pitcher. Mark Buehrle was …
There are no accidents: Exploring Tommy Harper’s 1970 season
Tommy Harper’s 1970 was, in the strictest sense of the term, a career year. How did a career average hitter become the first All-Star in Milwaukee Brewers history? Last month, the estimable Kyle Lobner — whose daily Patreon [mostly] on …
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Trade Talk: The Yankees and starting pitching
If the Yankees are going to make a run to the World Series, the starting rotation needs to be addressed. That much we do know. Thus far into the 2020 season, the pitching staff has been a modern day Clint …
The Show can’t go on
In its tone-deafness to this emergent moment in history, Major League Baseball has not only signaled its foolhardy and quixiotic intent to complete this season, it is also forfeiting its remaining sociocultural cache.
East Coast Bias: Urshela’s Meteoric Rise, Juan Show-To, Unlikely Contenders
AL East The Replacements, Part II Remember The Replacements? The movie about a football team that went on strike, so the owner hired a new coach to find replacement players a week before their first game? A perfect analogy this …
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East Coast Bias: COVID Catastrophe, All Rise, Yo Goes AWOL
Where can you find the best baseball in the world? Fuhgeddabouddit! What kind of question is that, guy? On the east coast, moe. Deadass. Two beast coast born and raised kids bring you the goings-on from a week of baseball on the Atlantic. …
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MLB wanted to be a distraction. It can’t escape reality.
MLB imagines itself as a reflection of America. The first week of the 2020 season proved its fantasy in the worst way.
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Wait ’til next year: Why I can’t watch baseball in 2020
With the world in the midst of numerous crises, I can’t do this.
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