April is over kiddies. It was a fun month. In recent years I’ve realized how much April really doesn’t matter. April is like pre-season games that actually wind up on your W-L record. Nobody is “out” yet, even if your team is struggling. Let’s look at what happened in April, good points, bad points, and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘ESPN’
October 31, 2007
2008 Red Sox: What They Should/Could and Will Look Like in the Future
2007 is over. The Red Sox were the best team in baseball, best regular season record and a World Series ring. The best part about this is, 2008 is going to look largely the same. Here is a position by position analysis of what the 2008 Boston Red Sox will look like, and what they [...]
October 31, 2007
Barry Bonds: I want one more year
2007 was big for Barry Bonds. Records were broken, set and talked about. Barry Bonds home run counters were everywhere, and most people hated it. I for one, didn’t want to be told by sports center how many minutes it had been since the last Barry Bonds home run.
In fact, 2 years ago I was [...]
September 22, 2007
Beckett for Cy Young
Josh Beckett just pitched himself a Cy Young award.
Beckett just became the first 20 game winner of 2007, and as ESPN keeps pointing out, the first since 2005. I think the “first 20 game winner since 2005″ statement is being
overplayed. It was only one year, last year, that there wasn’t a 20
game winner, and Wang had 19. I [...]
September 10, 2007
No Save for You!
A few days ago (September 6), Jayson Stark wrote in his Rumblings and Grumblings on ESPN.com about changing the save stat.
I completely agree with him about the “flawedness” of the save, and also think something needs to be done about it.
First of all, I don’t think they will every change the criteria for the save. As [...]
