As the Hot Stove League season winds down and gives way to the annual rebirth that is spring training, writers start to assess who the winners and losers were in the off-season. I’m not going to do that, but if I were to, I think I’d be putting a team in the [...]
Archive for February, 2008
A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s
Posted in Baseball, Billy Beane, Hot Stove, Oakland A's, Trades, tagged A's, Baseball, Beane, Eric Chavez, Haren, Hot Stove, Oakland, Spring Training, Swisher, Tejada, Trades on February 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Joba Rules, But Remember A Guy Phil?
Posted in Baseball, Joba Chamberlain, Keith Law, Phil Hughes, Yankees on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Eli Manning may not have been the only New York sports figure to have found himself in the post-season of 2007. In a less dramatic and certainly less impactful way, it’s just possible that Yankee pitcher Philip Hughes did so as well.
I’ve found it interesting to see the change in the view of Hughes since [...]
Celebration Time, Come On!
Posted in Football, NY Giants, Super Bowl 42 on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
My new, celebratory t-shirt. This is one happy, if rather bloated, Giants fan.
Moments, Glorious Moments
Posted in Baseball, Football, Jim Leyritz, NY Giants, Super Bowl 42, Yankees on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I am an analyst by profession, and I bring that into my sports fandom. Analysis of baseball and football is a major part of how I follow, study and think about the games. In the baseball realm, I’m inclined toward what people called statistical analysis, Bill James, Baseball Prospectus and the like. Football, despite the [...]
Santana Deal Reflects a New Market
Posted in Baseball, Trades on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
You know, probably the best thing about teams wising up and locking away their desirable players before they hit the open market in free agency is that it’s truly brought the Hot Stove League back.
In recent years, the blockbuster trade seemed to be facing extinction, and the off-season was filled with tales not of bargaining [...]
No Substance to Allegations Against Clemens
Posted in Baseball, PED, Roger Clemens on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
In one way, the Roger Clemens PED controversy has outstripped even Barry Bonds. That is in the amount of ugly bulls**t being strewn around it.
Once the Mitchell Report (man I hate that name) hit, there was no doubt Clemens would be in the center of a maelstrom. He was the only really big name [...]