Down and Certainly Not Out — Not Anymore
by Bill Baer on Friday, August 31st, 2007Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
The Phillies tried desperately to give the New York Mets a victory yesterday, squandering a 5-0 lead, and then an 8-5 lead. The Mets -- Billy Wagner, specifically -- wouldn't hear of it and promptly forked over 3 runs in ...
A Poker Tip for Playing Tournaments
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Posted in MLB | No Comments »
Lately, I have noticed a common trend among most Internet poker players: they don't know how to play tournament-style poker. The scenario I am talking about is when a player is all-in, and there are two other players in the hand ...
Phillies Bullpen Is Back to Normal
by Bill Baer on Monday, August 27th, 2007Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
With the return of Brett Myers and Tom Gordon from the disabled list, the Phillies' bullpen was finally able to stabilize and return to its status quo of forking over leads late in the game. The two combined in an ...
Marcus Hayes, You’re On Notice
by Bill Baer on Friday, August 24th, 2007Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 11 Comments »
If you read through my What's Wrong With Ryan Howard? article, you might have read, and probably became upset with Marcus Hayes' disparaging remarks towards a Sabermetric-using Phillies fan. A contributor at The Good Phight wrote about it here. Jim from ...
2007 NFL Predictions
by Bill Baer on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Posted in NFL | No Comments »
It's almost time for regular season football, and you know what that means. Predictions. These are my "incredibly genius now, incredibly stupid later" picks (note: I'm pretty sure the records add up to 256-256). +/- of last season's record in ...
Now Is It Over?
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
The Phillies have been run through the gauntlet and lived to tell about it. Injury after injury, and bad luck that would make a professional poker player weep (somewhere, Phil Hellmuth is weeping). It wasn't enough for the baseball gods to ...
Phillies Need Patience with Utley
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 1 Comment »
Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley hasn't played in a game since July 27, when his fourth metacarpal bone in his right hand was broken by a pitch from Washington Nationals left-hander John Lannan. Yesterday, Utley was given clearance by his ...
What’s Wrong With Ryan Howard?
by Bill Baer on Sunday, August 19th, 2007Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
Our 2005 Rookie of the Year and 2006 National League Most Valuable Player is slumping again. He has certainly earned the right to slump every now and then, as he isn't the recipient of a lucrative contract (like Pat Burrell) ...
How Many Would Bonds Have Hit [at Home]?
by Bill Baer on Saturday, August 18th, 2007Posted in MLB | No Comments »
I was pleased to see that my "How Many Would Bonds Have Hit?" article got a lot of feedback, mostly positive, some negative. At the end of my analysis, I asked readers to let me know if I fudged my ...
How Many Would Bonds Have Hit?
by Bill Baer on Friday, August 17th, 2007Posted in MLB | 8 Comments »
I thought it'd be fun to crunch some numbers to find out how many more homeruns our all-time and single-season homerun king could have hit if he hadn't played so many years in a home ballpark that was pitcher-friendly, and ...
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