Added Van Wagenen: “From our standpoint, we don’t have personal catchers.”

I recently moved from a small city with a popular minor-league baseball team to an even smaller city without one, and in all the things I calculated about making the decision to move, I didn’t realize how much I’d miss the simple pleasure of getting off of work, saying “fuck it, I’m not doing anything else with the…

And he’s spent the last three years turning into the sort of pundit he was supposed to upend - anecdotal and subject to whims and storylines rather than actual polling numbers.

Ideally we can get rid of the major league games too. Just analyze the swings of each team’s hitters, the spin rate of each team’s pitchers, and declare a champion.

The closest minor league park (single A Lakewood) to me offers $5 general admission tickets. Children five and under do not require tickets. On Sundays and Mondays, kids eat for free. Parking is $5. So when I take my kids, 5 and 7, to a game, I pay $10 for 2 tickets and $5 for parking. Once we get inside the…

Old guys have been saying analytics will kill baseball, and I think even they would agree they were talking metaphorically. This dude is literally advocating for less baseball games because analytics don’t even need games to get the numbers. So I guess all the old guys yelling at clouds were kinda right?  This asshole…

You play for the Sixers, you gotta represent Philadelphia or don’t go to the game,” Philadium bartender Tom Bressi said.

I am absolutely stunned that someone who brings a casket to a tailgate might also have some questionable racial beliefs.

This read like a article in an anthropological journal about some uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. 

.229 AVG .338 OBP .446 OPS

Your last question is really easily answered: all pitchers are different. They have different stuff, different approaches, different working paces, etc. If a pitcher, especially a good pitcher, finds that he likes working with one particular catcher, AND is getting good results with that catcher, why mess about with…

deGrom’s agent last year lobbied the Mets for days about Mesoraco being deGrom’s catcher because of comfortably concerns. This year, deGrom’s agent is now the General Manager, and he can’t be bothered with the request. 

From a logical standpoint, if he pitches better with guys that are NOT Ramos, wouldn’t it follow that you don’t need as much firepower in the lineup? 

Someone brought a casket to the tailgate? WTF?!

Thank you!!! I collect takes like yours to reuse later when it’s time to gloat. All the other haters are acting squirrelly today!

As one of four (4) remaining dolphins fans, I was very excited when we traded for Rosen. Please pray for me and my family.

I have a running tally. This is reason #193,782 why I’ll never attend another NFL game again.

“That guy, the one who’s huge and totally ripped and considered a great athlete by NBA standards, that’s the dude I’m gonna pick a fight with!”

Considering the whole time this was happening there was an actual documentary crew following everyone around and filming as much as possible, that makes the comparison even more fitting.

Everyone involved in this saga on both the Steelers and the Raiders feels like a character in a Christopher Guest movie.