The Mets have been outscoring their opponents by a wider margin, but that hasn’t helped them pull away from the Braves. Both teams are 19-11 (and five games ahead of third-place Florida) after a 4-2 week for Atlanta. This Week’s Stats Let’s get right to the FanGraphs summaries: 4/30: Braves 5, Phillies 2 5/1: Phillies […]
Month: May 2007
Everyone needs a feed, mine just says Google
About a week ago, I declared a free-for-all in the competition for my feed reader of choice. Now, I get to declare a winner, and as the headline suggests, it’s Google Reader. So, what makes Google Reader better than Bloglines? Sharing is fun – I have a feed of my recently read items on the […]
Injuries force decision on Saltalamacchia
Again, this is not how I expected it to go down, but I can understand the Braves’ decision to call up top prospect Jarrod Saltalamacchia yesterday. It was also Salty’s 22nd birthday, so as an unexpected gift, he got to make his major league debut. Jarrod went 0-for-2 with a walk and a hit by […]
April Trends
I’ve been blogging about basketball in some form on this site for a couple of years now, but until this year, I’ve been pretty inconsistent with my baseball notes. I’m trying to rectify that this year and keep more of a fixed weekly schedule with occasional other updates, but that didn’t help this site in […]
I do actually watch football, too
If you don’t actually know me personally, you probably aren’t aware that I’m a San Francisco 49ers fan. That’s been the case since I was fairly young, about the same time as the popularity of Tecmo Super Bowl for NES. I loved the Montana-to-Rice combo on the game, and I actually have family connections to the […]
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