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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 On Voros McCracken.com, the author of that website posted the results when non-pitchers have taken the mound in major league baseball from 1946 through 2006. As you might expect, those numbers aren’t so good: IP H HR BB SO ERA BFP A couple new stories about steroids (and HGH) in baseball have come out, involving (who else?) Mark McGwire and Roger Clemens. Sean Southard, in a comment to an earlier post about the baseball Hall of Fame, made a point that a couple years ago I would have disagreed with, but ultimately I think is going to end . . . → Read More: The real steroids question I found a pretty good blog post about the 0-16 Detroit Lions, written before they lost their final game of the season. The last several paragraphs, where Posnanski relates the opinion of a Detroit Free Press writer about the city residents’ relationship with the team, is particularly interesting. If I ever finish the O-fers Hall of Fame . . . → Read More: Hasn’t been kicked out yet That’s the “Jeopardy” answer. The question: What are “Benjamin Button” and the other four nominees for the Best Picture Oscar? (The other nominees are “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Reader,” and “Slumdog Millionaire.” I know you. You haven’t seen them either.) I suppose by “best” they mean, “Most likely to induce a nap.” Which actually could be best, come to think . . . → Read More: Four movies I have not seen The Steelers are favored by 7 points over the Cardinals in the upcoming Super Bowl. Who . . . → Read More: Spread ‘em I’d like to know what you think, if you’ve ever been out of work for a decent period of time. My opinion is: The best part of being unemployed is that I haven’t been sick all winter. Of course, this means I haven’t built any immunities either. I’ll cross that bridge when I get to . . . → Read More: Best part of unemployment Dodgers officially release Andruw Jones I like Andruw Jones, as far as I know him, which is as a bunch of pixels on my TV screen and one game watching from behind home plate at Safeco Field. But this excerpt speaks for itself (wording and order of sentences rearranged for effect, meaning unchanged): He … batted .158 with three . . . → Read More: Nobody could have foreseen Congratuations to Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice on their selection to the National Baseball Hall of Fame! If you could build your own Hall of Fame, from scratch, who would be in it? How would you go about choosing the very best baseball players of all-time? I’ve thought about those questions from time to time as kind of a fun game, but I didn’t take it very far. It was just an interesting diversion, especially about 20 years ago when I wasn’t as jaded, to look at the backs of baseball cards and try to figure out where players like Andre Dawson and Bert Blyleven ranked among the legends. Now that we’re getting some minor bits of traffic here, I’ve decided to have a little bit of fun with the whole Hall of Fame idea, and make it interactive to boot. I’m going to establish an O-fers Hall of Fame so that we, the members of the O-fers community, can discuss, argue and bicker over who deserves enshrinement. |
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