Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports breaks down the Toronto Blue Jays chances in 2010. Anthopoulos recognized quickly what Tampa Bay and Baltimore did a few seasons back: Competing in the AL East, particularly against New York and Boston, often takes an organizational retooling. He can’t rid himself of Wells, so Anthopoulos took his most valuable [...]
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links for 2009-11-05
Disney Will Give Mickey Mouse a Makeover And all of North America stifled a big yawn (tags: Disney postmodernity media) Bush dispenses baseball wisdom in Japan Well he finally found a topic he knows… oh wait, he is the guy who traded Sammy Sosa. (tags: Bush/Cheney) Army Corps moves to protect New Orleans from flooding [...]
links for 2009-10-27
How the New York Yankees are the Microsoft of Baseball Two-thousand was the last time the Yankees managed to win a championship. And it was awfully close to the last time that that Microsoft managed to produce a version of Windows that anybody cared about. And, hey, both the Yankees and Microsoft have long histories [...]
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Wendy posted our 2009 Summer Playlist just in time for snow to fall on Saskatoon (probably tonight) The death of the intellectual generalist :: The question is whether their loss has affected the course of human thought. Polymaths possess something that monomaths do not. Time and again, innovations come from a fresh eye or from [...]
J.P. Ricciardi fired in Toronto
So J.P. Ricciardi was fired in Toronto as the General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. Ricciardi for those of you who have read Moneyball, was schooled in the ways of sabermetrics by Billy Beane and all Jays fans had hoped he would bring that wisdom to the Toronto Blue Jays. While the future started [...]
Hicks can’t meet payroll in Texas
I am not a big Tom Hicks fan at all so seeing him struggle to meet payroll is a kind of fun. Major League Baseball within the last week loaned millions to Tom Hicks, the evidently cash-strapped owner of the Texas Rangers, and will continue to offer financial assistance to Hicks until he is able [...]
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Are GM’s problems all because of Chevrolet? Speaking of GM, they have been down this road before. The rise and fall of Todd Marinovich Emergency and low income housing made from pallets Iceland’s men destroyed the country’s economy; Iceland’s women are busy fixing it. A dead pixel in Google Earth Op: Regarding torture, we can’t [...]
20 Things That Have Happened Since The Chicago Cubs Last Won The World Series
Radio was invented; Cub fans got to hear their team lose. TV was invented; Cub fans got to see their team lose. Baseball added 14 teams; Cub fans got to see AND hear their team lose to more teams. George Burns celebrated his 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th and 100th birthdays. [...]
25 Improbable Players on MLB Rosters
I enjoyed #11 from Yahoo! Sports. Sidney Ponson. SP, New York Yankees: Fat. Popped twice for DUI. Beat up an Aruban judge and landed in jail. Got released by Texas for allegedly getting drunk and acting stupid at a hotel bar. And somehow on his sixth organization despite all that and a career ERA [...]
