Category: baseball

Well, and Pedro meets Clemens tonight for the pennant. This is something we won’t see again, baseball fans. Mr. Career Value (and quite possibly the best Career Value in a hundred years) against Mr. Peak Value (who may well clutch…

OK, there’s less than a week left of the baseball season, and there’s been a ton of excitement. Last night, the three divisions in the American League all got clinched (well, the Yankees clinched a tie), and the wildcard races…

On Baseball Primer’s Clutch Hits, every month or two somebody posts something like “Miguel Tejada is better then Nomar Garciaparra; you have to see him every day to know how good he is.” Thirty or forty posters then respond that…

Sorry to be quiet for so long. Worn out, I guess. Plus, Your Humble Blogger has had the joy of watching his beloved Giants win pretty nearly every day, which is new, different, and wonderful. On the other hand, I…

Your Humble Blogger went to the National Baseball Hall of Fame this winter, so now that there’s active discussion in the baseball world about what constitutes a Hall of Famer, that qualifies me to chime in, doesn’t it? If you’re…

The other day, Your Humble Blogger went to see a Major League Baseball game. I’d tell you more, but on the back of the ticket it says: By the use of this ticket, the ticket holder agrees that: (A) He…

Baseball is one of Your Humble Blogger’s passions; I expect that I will write about it as often as the brilliant and necessary Jon Carroll writes about cats. Enough to annoy those who read this Tohu Bohu for its rigorously…