Just to get myself thinking about the way the National League race is shaping up, I thought I’d try to rank every NL team one month into the season. Where we started Looking back at my hastily-prepared predictions, I thought the Braves were the best NL team at the beginning of the season, but my […]
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Weekly Notes: April 18, 2008
Here are a few things I’ve been thinking about this week: I had planned to explore this in depth, but I got way too far off-topic with what I was writing to even think about posting it. Here’s the condensed version: This week in the Wednesday night Bible class I’m teaching (3rd-5th grade), I had […]
Hastily-prepared 2008 MLB Predictions
DISCLAIMER: Regardless of what you may think of these predictions, they are not an April Fool’s joke. I promise. Below I have the projected order of finish for each division, with each team’s number of wins in parentheses. Each division winner is in bold, while each league’s Wild Card team is in italics. National League […]
Weekly Notes: March 7, 2008
Finally, it’s Friday, and I don’t have a game recap to write. Some notes for the past couple of weeks: Yesterday was a light day in D-II South men’s basketball, with the only game of note being Benedict’s double-OT win in the SIAC quarterfinals. The rest of the region has to be rooting Benedict on, […]
Weekly Notes: February 21, 2008
I didn’t do any notes last week, so here’s what’s going on: Let’s start with a quick comment or two on today’s big NYT story about John McCain’s relationship with a lobbyist: I don’t much care about the adultery angle, nor do I think this was a sinister plot by the Times to destroy the […]
Baseball and The Office converge in a very odd way
So, I don’t usually develop an entire post around a news item, at least not when it doesn’t involve Harding basketball or the Braves, but this one is worth simply passing along: Fire Joe Morgan: About Us The writers of Fire Joe Morgan are, in fact professionals. Lead writer Ken Tremendous is actually Michael Schur, […]
Weekly Notes: January 11, 2008
2008 is already flying by for me because of the giant task at work known as YEAR END. Here’s what I’ve been thinking about this week: I’ve been thinking a lot about Ron Paul, and I want to make it clear that I don’t actually think he’s racist. I dug a bit more into the […]
First thoughts on the Mitchell Report
A few minutes ago, former Senator George Mitchell released his report on the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball. The full report is already available for download on MLB.com. Virtually none of the conclusions were surprising. Both MLB and the MLBPA bear responsibility, along with pretty much anyone else involved with baseball in the […]
Weekly Notes: December 6, 2007
Let’s get started: If you’ve followed the baseball hot stove this offseason, you’re probably aware that Andruw Jones was not willing to sign a one-year deal, probably because Scott Boras advised him that it would make him look like he needed a make-good/second chance style of contract before signing a “real” long-term deal. Well, the […]
Weekly Notes: October 25, 2007
It’s been a while since I did one of these posts. Let’s hope I remember how it works. First, a few football lists: [TABLE=1] [TABLE=2] Now, a few other notes: I’ve been playing a lot of Xbox 360 recently, and I told myself that I wasn’t going to buy NCAA Football 08 (a game I […]
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