Didn’t get a chance to watch baseball yesterday?  It’s cool – I watched nine hours of it – I got you covered. Going in a slightly different direction for the blog today:  I wrote this yesterday as I watched 2 games and parts of two others.  I did my best to write in real time, … Continue reading Nine hours of baseball in one post:

Every now and then, there are topics that don’t need 1,000 words of analysis, but should be addressed.  Here’s this week’s version of “out of left field”: Letting Sonny Go I was OK with Joe Girardi leaving Sonny Gray in the game in the bottom of the 8th of a tie game last night. Normally, … Continue reading Out of left field

It seems as often as it’s been noted that sacrifice bunting is detrimental to run scoring, a more pertinent question is overlooked just as often. Imagine for a second there is a better question than “Why would you do something that reduces your team’s chances of scoring?”  I know, that’s a tough one for those … Continue reading The (not so) hidden small ball problem:

This may sound familiar. The Rangers are an interesting team.  Not very good, but just good enough to be a smidge over .500, which puts them in the mix along with…everybody…for a wild card spot.  All together now, thank you Hall of Famer Bud Selig for bringing the gift of mediocrity to our national pastime. … Continue reading Yanks – Rangers preview

Today is one of those blogs in which the topics may seem unrelated, and may not be worthy of 1,000 words of analyzation each (yet), but they’re still noteworthy.  I now come to you, out of left field… Dellin As you know I’ve been all over Joe “Joey Bullpen” Girardi about his bullpen (mis) management … Continue reading Out of left field

The narrative you’re going to hear from Simpleton Summer Camp (the YES Network) today is that Baltimore got it together, got their offense going, they can score runs, they’re only two games out of a wild card spot, yada-yada. Yes.  They’ve played 10 games over .500 since July 16th.  Yes, they’re 2nd in the American … Continue reading Yanks – O’s preview

Anytime the Yankees play Boston, especially this late in the season, there aren’t too many secrets.  But if you do enough digging (I did) you’ll always find some interesting things on which you can cogitate this weekend while watching the games.  Or alternatively, you can listen to Simpleton Summer Camp’s Al Leiter say things like … Continue reading Yanks – Sawx preview

If you’re a Yankee fan who grew tired of watching Jacoby Ellsbury take at bats away from superior players for so long and are now suffering through the Todd Frazier era, I am here to spread some sunshine: Our glass is half full today because it could certainly be worse.  We could be paying customers … Continue reading Tired of T. Frazier? Imagine this:

A lot of crazy things happened yesterday in the Yankees – Tigers game.  Irrational, heat of the moment passion overtook sound judgment.  Long term benefits were ignored while short term personal issues were resolved.  Mistakes from the past weren’t forgotten, causing tempers to flare and more mistakes made. Oh, and there was a brawl. In … Continue reading A baseball game sandwiched a brawl

A long time ago I learned not to trust my eyes.  I think one of our biggest weaknesses as humans is our tendency to believe our eyes, feelings, impressions, instincts, etc. even when there is evidence that proves that our opinions are inaccurate.  Frankly, I think it’s what separates good MLB General Managers from poor … Continue reading The Yankee with the rabbit foot