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It’s been reported recently that Tom Hicks, owner of the Texas Rangers, is selling his baseball team to an investment group with Nolan Ryan as its public face. Granted, Hicks is in a lot of debt, so he might not see a lot of the money coming his way. He isn’t really the reason I’m writing this . . . → Read More: Don’t worry about baseball owners In the bottom of the ninth, no less: I am off the hook for any throw I make . . . → Read More: Thank you, Stephen Drew This article correctly sums up the way I feel about the hoopla surrounding Derek Jeter’s . . . → Read More: I can’t help it Feel free to continue making fun of Salty in the previous post, but this happened today: Former Dolphins DL Turner dies at 46 after stroke I did 8 seconds of research and found the following information: Studies in the United States show that men who play five or more years in the NFL have a life expectancy of 55, . . . → Read More: New opinion time So, now it looks like 2002 American League MVP Miguel Tejada may have lied about performance-enhancing drugs too. Just looking at MVP and Cy Young Award winners, so far these are the winners who have been implicated, in some way, with steroids or HGH since Canseco in 1988 (* indicates player was not suspected, as nearly . . . → Read More: Ten steroid thoughts A-Roid or A-Fraud? And why? There’s a lot to say about this whole issue. I think that Sean Southard’s point from a couple weeks ago continues to be true. Too many players were using, all of the great ones were using or suspected of using, so whaddya gonna do? Throw them all out? Plus, there’s this whole issue of . . . → Read More: Which do you prefer? Part I: 1871-1890 I think we’ve established that trying to pick favorites from the 19th century solely through statistics is a bit of a fool’s quest. The leagues weren’t truly organized yet; heck, the American League didn’t exist until 1901 and didn’t adopt the foul-strike rule until 1903. The minor league system as we know it today, . . . → Read More: O-fers Hall of Favorites When I was in elementary school, it might have been the fifth grade, a couple friends and I were out in the baseball field, basically killing time until the end of recess. We didn’t have a kickball or baseball gear, and the swingset had become boring. Your basic 10-year-old ennui had set in. I found an old shoe in the grass and tossed it to one of the guys. He tossed it back. The third friend — I would tell you who they were if I remembered — tried to intercept the pass. Shoe Ball was born. For a few weeks, we had found something to break us out of our doldrums. Before long, we had official rules. We didn’t really know the rules of football, so we created something that was similar to what we had seen on TV and yet … different. Plus we had a shoe instead of a ball. I am not kidding about this. Other kids joined in. I guess the swings just weren’t doing it for a lot of students at the time. So, Joe Torre has a book coming out next week. Based on the publicity it has already received, I reckon that Torre and Tom Verducci, the “co-writer,” are probably going to make a hefty chunk of money off this. Possibly some of it will be mine. I haven’t decided yet. Based on what you’ve been hearing, what . . . → Read More: Dirty laundry No, I haven’t forgotten about the O-fers Hall of Fame project. In fact, precisely by looking into that is how I’ve gotten off the road, so to speak. I’ve been working on a way to fairly evaluate players, which has led me to some dark places with lots of numbers floating in the air. I worked it . . . → Read More: Shedding (Moon)light |
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