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The Air Raid is Coming. Will YOU Be Prepared, Texas Fan?
We all have our own way of preparing for a big game. I like to wake up to a michelada & migas while watching Lou Holtz spit at my television on College GameDay before heading down to DKR to set up the tailgate, Homeland Security always trailing a few cars behind. This is the natural order. You just...
Today in Sports History: August 7th
8/07/1999 - Boggs hits historic homerWade Boggs, playing for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, hits a home run off Indians' pitcher Chris Haney to give him 3,000 for his career. It was the first time a player hit a home run for his 3,000th hit and was the first notable moment in the history of the D-Rays....
4/18/1981 - The longest baseball game
(Marty Barrett scores the winning run in the 33rd inning. Photo courtesy of AP Photos) It was an April day in 1981 when the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings (the AAA affiliates of the Red Sox and Orioles) met at McCoy Stadium in Rhode Island. The initial 1,740 fans in attendance had to...
Graph of the Day: Boggs vs. Brett
Boggs vs. Brett in... Career hitting RAA: +451 vs. +459 Career baserunning RAA: -5 vs. +34 Career fielding RAA: +105 vs. +45 Career position RAA: +4 vs. -53 Career P.T. rep runs: 357 vs. 381 Career WAR: 92.3 vs. 89.3 Career pine tar violations: 0 vs. 1 0 WAR data from Sean's historical...
Graph of the Day: Boggs vs. Gwynn vs. Ripken
Today's GotD is also a link to four more graphs, as part of my article that appeared on The Hardball Times yesterday. I took a look at the careers of Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynn, and Cal Ripken, Jr. using Sean's WAR database. The short story is that Boggs and Gwynn were equally awesome hitters,...
10 reasons to hate the...Tampa Bay Rays
Recently St. Pete Times writer Tom Jones (disappointingly not the crooner) wrote a column entitled "10 reasons to hate the Red Sox". I will pick up where Mr. Jones left off and give you reasons to hate every team in Major League Baseball (or maybe just the American League), starting with Jones'...
H-O-P-E
I don’t really feel like going over my game notes from last night. I think as we go through this coming week, we will probably have enough opportunities to address some of the micro issues from last night’s game (i.e. talking about Akeem Ayers and Rahim Moore who had exceptional games...
Cesspool scheduled for demolition
So, you may have heard, they just finished playing the last game ever at Yankee Stadium — once the home to the greatest organization in sports, a symbol of American excellence. Back then, there was nothing preening about calling it The House That Ruth Built, because baseball was the sport...
Random All-Star Sox thoughts
via d.yimg.com Congrats to JD Drew for winning the All-Star MVP award. I was worried he wouldn't win it because of the 'B' on his hat, but he definitely deserved it. He deserves the spotlight and it couldn't have happened to a better guy. And to think, he was voted in by players -- makes it...
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