Given that I woke up Monday morning with a fever of 100.8, I’ve gotten a lot done over the past 36 hours, including a pair of articles that went up on Baseball Prospectus today, with the second mirrored at SI.com. One piece is on the Hall of Fame voting, the other on the first big …
Quick radio note: in addition to my usual gig on Toledo’s WLQR 1470 AM at 4:10 PM Eastern today, I’ll be this week’s Baseball Prospectus representative on Boston’s WWZN 1510 on “The Young Guns Show” at 3:05 PM Eastern. The Toledo gig doesn’t have a means of listening via Internet (hey Norm, get on it!) …
“I think blogs are dedicated to cruelty, they’re dedicated to journalistic dishonesty.” – Honest Buzz Bissinger, best-selling author on “Costas Now” That blanket statement was the opening salvo fired on behalf of Tired Old Media on Tuesday night’s “Costas Now” segment devoted to The Way Those Big Mean Bloggers Are Destroying Journalism. Actually, that’s not …
In Friday’s XM Radio appearance on the Rotowire Fantasy Sports Hour, host Chris Liss and I discussed my “Big Lugs and Small Sample Sizes” piece from earlier in the week. Chris threw me for a loop with the entry of Carlos Delgado into the discussion; as noted in this week’s Hit List, I’m pretty down …
The following is a response to a blog entry by one Paul White, a writer I had never heard of until Tuesday afternoon but one who took no prisoners in dishing out the most scathing attack I’ve received in nearly seven years of writing about baseball. His blog entry went so far as to include …
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As you’re no doubt aware, Rich Gossage got the call from the Hall last Tuesday, receiving 85.8 percent of the vote. He was the only candidate to gain entry this year. Jim Rice fell just 16 votes shy at 72.2 percent, followed by Andre Dawson (65.9 percent) and Bert Blyleven (61.9 percent). Tim Raines, the …
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Just a quick and almost belated note to say that I’m going to be discussing JAWS and the recent Hall of Fame vote today (Saturday) at 10:25 AM on XM 175’s “Minors and Majors” show with Grant Paulsen, the 18-year-old broadcasting wunderkind. Better pound some coffee…
The day after my JAWS-flavored take on the starting pitchers on the 2008 Hall of Fame ballot ran at Baseball Prospectus, my take on the relievers is up as well, thus — to my great relief — completing this year’s series (the reliever portion is free, the starter one is sub-only). For those who have …
Happy 2008, everyone! Just a few quick notes this morning, the first of which is time-sensitive: • I’ve been invited to appear on XM 175, Hot Stove with Chuck Wilson today (Thursday) at 12:25 PM Eastern to discuss JAWS and the 2008 Hall of Fame ballot. I’m told I’ll be doing a second segment at …
Hello and happy holidays to you all. I’m here at the tail end of my winter trip to Salt Lake City. The snow is falling but I’m finally beginning to see daylight as far as my massive winter workload is concerned. At last count I’d delivered some 50,000 words to Baseball Prospectus, Fantasy Baseball Index …
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