Some notes to get you through the first weekend of football season: Tennessee plays at Cal tomorrow night at 8 PM on ABC. Erik Ainge will be playing with a broken finger, and I’ll be watching, hoping that the Vols can get off to a good start. I think Tennessee will run the ball very […]
Month: August 2007
A quick Braves assessment
For Braves fans still expecting a comeback, two out of three against the Marlins is a start. A sweep would have been nice, but two out of three will work for now. The Braves now sit five games back in both the NL East and Wild Card races: NL East W L PCT GB New […]
Whereas, Tennessee shall be considered the #1 team in college football
Perhaps not, at least not at this point. With the season opening up tomorrow night, I suppose I had better post my own preseason top 25 list. This list is intended to reflect which teams are better, not necessarily which teams are likely to be highly-ranked at the end of the year. For that reason, […]
Wait 'til next year?
The NL Central-leading Cubs’ rallying cry might apply to the Braves now, after a 2-5 week pushed them seven games back in the division race (behind 2 teams) and four in the wild card (behind 4 teams). Coolstandings gives the Braves a 13.8% chance of making the postseason, which seems about right. That’s half what […]
On the list of things I wasn't expecting, this was #4
The Braves designated Bob Wickman for assignment today. The former Atlanta closer gave up the game-winning homer to Adam Dunn last night, and today they’re letting him go. While I have thought all along that Wickman was perhaps the third-best reliever on the team (thus making it unfortunate that he got to pitch in so […]
Friday Notes: August 24, 2007
My site’s been down most of the morning, but hopefully it will stay up long enough for me to crank out this post. Start your timers now. Today is my buddy Jace’s birthday. He’s 23 today, and if he tells me he feels any different because he’s 23, he’s probably lying. I certainly didn’t. Other […]
Another reason to rethink the Save
I don’t know if you could call it a “campaign,” but I’ve lobbied for some time now against the use of the save as a useful relief pitching performance measure. Win Probability does a far better job on two levels: 1) it does a far better job showing how much credit a reliever deserves for […]
From the "certifiably insane sports gamer" department
I don’t mean to imply by the headline that I’m a great sports gamer. I love them, but I regularly subject myself to beatings at the hands of more talented human opposition. Still, with Madden 08 coming out, and in order to prove that I’m completely insane, I decided to compile the list of player ratings […]
The annual post about why my fantasy football team should win
I had the first of my two fantasy drafts on Saturday night, and everything went basically as planned. It’s an 8-team league mostly made up of friends from church, and this is the league’s second year. This year, we decided to make it a keeper league, with a maximum six players (out of 20) retained from year […]
Braves endure another .500 week as the Mets increase their lead
This week looks strangely like the one before, except the opponents were the Giants and D-Backs, and the games were at home. First, the Braves took 2 of 3 from the Giants, and then Brandon Webb and Micah Owings won two of three games for the D-Backs over the weekend. This Week’s Stats Scores and […]
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