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Today in Stupid Bullshit

Jay Jaffe — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:54:02 +0000

Three things, apparently unrelated except for the fact that when I reactivated the blog, I explicitly promised you cursing and beer as well as baseball: • Publisher wants to ban cursing in the newsroom At the York (PA) Daily Record, somebody is out of her fucking mind, namely publisher Sara Glines, who on Monday sent a ...

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Totally Horseshit: The Jim Rice Story

Jay Jaffe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:28:00 +0000

Having spent his summer besmirching the character of Derek Jeter, Jim Rice continues to demonstrate why he’s as horseshit with a mic in his hand as he was as a Hall of Fame candidate. After watching leading AL Cy Young candidate Zack Greinke shut out the Red Sox while allowing two hits, Rice declares that ...

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Oh, You Want a Reynolds Rant?

Jay Jaffe — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:04:00 +0000

So Joe Posnanski is pulling his hair out over a 522-word blog entry from Harold Reynolds — about OPS and how slow runners clog the basepaths — that at least one reader has termed “Worst. Blog Post. Ever.”? Been there, done that, right down to the part about it taking two hits to score Jason ...

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The Loose Goose and the Pain for Raines

Jay Jaffe — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:52:00 +0000

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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Jon Heyman’s Chass-Ity Belt

Jay Jaffe — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:03:00 +0000

Move over, Murray Chass. Ignorance has a new best friend, and his name is Jon Heyman. In a recent SI.com mailbag piece, Heyman decided to ape the senile New York Times sports columnist by parading his reactionary view of sabermetrics: Regarding your NL MVP candidates, how about those two guys in Florida? Yes, the Marlins ...

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Kicking Chass and Fixing Chats

Jay Jaffe — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:55:00 +0000

On Monday, my JAWS article about the Veterans Committee was published at Baseball Prospectus publication. Tuesday saw the voting results — another shutout — announced, and when I blogged it at BP Unfiltered, I added a veiled dig at the New York Times‘ Murray Chass, who had… well, I’ll give him the rope: I receive ...

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