Archive for the 'MLB General' Category
As we get close to the non-waiver trade deadline, and as we salivate over the prospect of Alfonso Soriano becoming a Mariner, the bottom line is that the Mariners need a starting pitcher as much as anything.
And that, combined with the talk of Jason Schmidt liking Seattle as a free agent destination, makes this Sean […]
ESPN has a cool baseball quiz online today — take it here. It’s 50 questions, and when you’re done it’ll show you how many you got right, all the correct answers, and what percentage of fans picked each answer.
Can ya beat my 27 correct? Oddly, I did best on the early days and modern […]
If anyone knows where to find this stuff out, please speak up.
1.) How many bad pitches the Mariners swing at. They must be at or near the top (bottom?) of the league, right? Or do I just notice it more because it’s bad when the Mariners do it, and good when the other guys do […]
Listening to all this talk of the MLB draft finishing 50 rounds in two days, I thought about how the NFL draft takes about five hours just to get through the 1st round, and it occurred to me …
Thank God the NFL doesn’t have a 50-round draft.
(Picture Mel Kiper on-air for 6-8 days straight without […]
MLB Draft 1st day today: 14 of the Mariners 18 picks are pitchers, 11 of them at the college level. Brandon Morrow is the main guy here, the 5th overall selection. I won’t be too surprised to see him in Seattle this season. There’s a lot of hand-wringing about the M’s passing on Andrew Miller, […]
The Onion rocks.
Just the headline had me ROFL….
(Thx Phil for the tip.)
Hysterical list from The Onion.
My fave? The Rickey Henderson one.
Hat tip to Phil for the link….
This is fantastic:
2005 Salary vs. Performance in MLB
You’d be hard-pressed to find a team with a more vertical line than the Mariners. That’s not good.
I grew up in Philadelphia (well, in a nearby ‘burb) and went to plenty of Phillies, Eagles, and 76ers games in my youth, so it’s with some familiarity that I say sometimes I love Philly fans, and sometimes I hate ‘em.
This photo at right, taken during Saturday’s Phillies-Giants game, is a love ‘em moment. Fans […]