Archive for July, 2006

The Deadline - How We got it

Monday, July 31st, 2006

With the trade deadline looming in the future it’s only proper that some might wonder why, and how there ever became a trade deadline. It’s hard to find the exact moment in time that the rule was instituted, but we know it occurred in 1923 and we know it occurred following the trades in late […]

Defense - Baseball’s Wallflower.

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Sitting the corner at the big dance is a beautiful girl, hidden behind her glasses and underwhelming clothes is a prize. Alas there she sits in the shadows, underappreciated and unloved by most, her name?
Defense.
The Reds have been swinging around the dance floor for the past 5 years, switching partners, losing dates, always being a […]

Getting the Information

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Spoiled aren’t we?
Internet, ESPN, Baseball Weekly, Baseball America, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fantasy Baseball, Strat-o-Matic, Amazon, SABR, Chat Boards, MLB.Com, Baseball Prospectus, Hardball Times, FSN, Extra Innings, MLB Audio, and even the daily paper.
All of that for games, all that for the tracking the minutia of a sport that can dump out more connected […]