08.22.05
Posted in General at 1:19 pm by Steven Gardner
The spat between Milton Bradley and Jeff Kent is sad in one sense only. Really, I don’t care if teammates fight all that often. In the 1970s when Steve Garvey and Don Sutton fought in the clubhouse, Yankee players said it made the Dodgers the team to watch the rest of the year. The Dodgers didn’t win that year, but the Yankees had won before despite the fact there were times players on the team couldn’t stand being on the same field as each other.
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08.16.05
Posted in General at 8:25 am by Jeff J. Snider
I just finished reading the latest chat with ESPN.com Insider Buster Olney (here’s the link, for those of you who have Insider accounts). Throughout the chat, he printed a lot of comments about the Roger Clemens vs. Chris Carpenter debate. I noticed that most of the pro-Carpenter arguments seemed to really be anti-Clemens arguments: “If the stats were reversed, you would all say Clemens deserved it.” “Clemens didn’t deserve it based on stats last year, but he won it anyway.” And so on an so forth.
As usual, I have some opinions on this topic, and like most debates like this, I think a lot of people are using emotion instead of data to make their case. I will now address several of the arguments I have read today:
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08.10.05
Posted in General at 11:37 am by Jeff J. Snider
Two quick links about cheating in baseball:
The Double Standard, by Jayson Stark.
Long tradition of cheating on the hill, by Gary Gillette. (This article is only available to ESPN Insiders, which means “People who pay money.” I just discovered last week that my subscription to ESPN the Magazine gives me a free Insider membership.)
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Posted in General at 10:40 am by Jeff J. Snider
Here’s a link to the latest in the saga of Larry Krueger, a sports radio talk show host who has come under fire in the past several days for comments he made about Felipe Alou and his San Francisco Giants. For those who haven’t read about it, here are the two quotes that have everyone up in arms:
The Giants’ hitters are “brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly.”
Felipe Alou is “a manager … whose mind has turned to Cream of Wheat.”
Highly crtitical? Yes. Inappropriate? Yes, to an extent. Racist? Huh???
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08.01.05
Posted in General at 1:25 pm by Jeff J. Snider
Thanks to the beauties of TiVo, I watched a Hall of Fame induction ceremony for the first time ever yesterday. I skipped through all commercials, ramblings by that lady who insisted on calling herself the “chairman,” all the Bud Selig content, and Jerry Coleman’s speech (nothing against Jerry, I just didn’t care). What I did watch was the introductions of the living Hall of Famers who were present, and the speeches by Peter Gammons, Wade Boggs, and Ryne Sandberg.
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