tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56376752011-07-14T16:36:19.840-05:00Sports BlotterReporting on the transgressions of today's so called sports "analysts", and making a few observations of our own.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1061476330768055992003-08-21T09:32:00.000-05:002003-08-21T09:32:10.786-05:00Blister Me Silly As you all know, I am an A's fan that is stuck in New England. I went to the Sox game last night, which is why this post is late and not all that great. I met Rich Harden! Harden was absolutely one of the most down to earth stars that I have ever met. I commented to the people around me that he must not realize that he is the man just yet, or perhaps his Canadian side Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1061264421771368852003-08-18T22:40:00.000-05:002003-08-18T22:40:21.663-05:00Quick Fix City I decided I would play Paul DePodesta today, and write an entire column about players who, for the most part, I haven't seen. Yes, I know, this is probably going to leave me up for some criticism, and that is fine--because as much as I think it's important to see the player (especially in the minors, where I feel like I can tell how good a player is from watching him much betterSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1060914138777660742003-08-14T21:22:00.000-05:002003-08-14T21:26:46.596-05:00A man named Theo and his thought... First off, I apologize to all of you out there who already know everything that I am about to write. The truth is, I can't contain myself anymore at what I see to be an injustice against Theo Epstein. At the beginning of the year, Epstein said that he planned on utilizing a bullpen by committee. This trading deadline, Epstein has been congratulated Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1060746201977215872003-08-12T22:43:00.000-05:002003-08-12T22:43:21.893-05:00Sumit did, indeed, encroach on my territory. I had been saving a Moneyball article for some time now, so I guess I'll put it up now. While Sumit hit on one of the inconsistencies of Moneyball, he failed to mention a few others. Here goes. Moneyball Not Quite on the Money Among baseball blogs such as this one, the book Moneyball, by Michael Lewis, has become somewhat of a bible. This is Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1060692821611518292003-08-12T07:53:00.000-05:002003-08-12T07:53:41.630-05:00Two pairs of Sox or Two and a Half? What a terrible attempt at a title. First off, I would like to apologize for the lackluster quality of this post and the fact that it is late. Today was Sumit's day, but quite frankly, I don't have a clue where he is or when he will be back or anything like that. I know that whatever is up was unexpected, so I'm not really sure how long he will be gone. I'mSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1060563464308774752003-08-10T19:57:00.000-05:002003-08-10T20:09:24.576-05:00AL Cy Young Watch After Sumit's article on the National League Cy Young, it is now my turn to throw my hat in the ring, and take care of the American League. This will become a trend, as Sumit will tend to stray on the National side, and I'll try to stick to American. Anyway. The American League Cy Young top five was incredibly difficult for me to put together. I didn't have too much Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1060401253047269252003-08-08T22:54:00.000-05:002003-08-08T22:57:42.346-05:00The AL Cy Young Watch will be posted Monday. The NL Cy Young Watch is below this article. First off, I would like to apologize to everyone for us saying that the AL Cy Young watch would be up today instead of Monday. We aren't going to be posting on the weekends...that, and I left the Cy Young article I had written at work...but anyway, it will be Monday, and in general, we won't be posting onSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1060256548332079822003-08-07T06:42:00.000-05:002003-08-07T06:49:01.753-05:00Of Orange Birds and a man named Jhonny... I want you all to congratulate me for actually resisting my urge to write this article blasting Rob Neyer for criticizing the A's extension of Scott Hatteberg. Neyer showed the fact that no sportswriter can possibly be an expert on every single team, and perhaps he didn't understand Hatteberg's contribution to the A's. Still, Hatteberg already gets farSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1060087980985314592003-08-05T07:53:00.000-05:002003-08-05T09:12:24.530-05:00 Jimmy Gobble, a rookie called directly out of AA, pitched a shutout for the Royals against Tampa Bay. Yes, I know that Tampa Bay is not a very intimidating team. In fact, I also know that Ted Lilly owns them, which proves to me that Tampa Bay is not a very good team. What I also know, though, is that Tampa Bay is a major league team that does score runs against several Major League Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5637675.post-1059850868711388982003-08-02T14:01:00.000-05:002003-08-02T14:02:50.146-05:00It was a late night scoreboard watching for me, as my A's were finally on TV, since we played the Yankees. The game went reasonably well. Tim Hudson, who I think should be the #1 Cy Young candidate (more on this later), wasn't quite on his A game. Still, he only gave up 2 runs in 7 innings. Mike Mussina was once again making the A's batters look like Little Leaguers, and it was 2-1, New York, Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780115569268099646noreply@blogger.com