Tired of the Lidge-Jumping
by Bill Baer on Friday, February 29th, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 9 Comments »
Even before the new Phillies closer had his second knee surgery of the off-season, there was plenty of doubt cast on Brad Lidge and it had nothing to do with that right knee of his. Ever since that Game 5 ...
Jon Heyman Needs Attention
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 24 Comments »
It's the end of February and exhibition games are hours away. A new baseball season is on the horizon, full of new wonders for our great sportswriters to opine about. Sports Illustrated's Jon Heyman instead wants to focus on last ...
Freddy Garcia Redux?
by Bill Baer on Monday, February 25th, 2008Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 2 Comments »
You didn't hear it here, but... Pat Gillick is good at acquiring damaged goods. Before last season, Gillick traded for Freddy Garcia and sent failed project Gavin Floyd and prized left-hander and strikeout artist Gio Gonzalez to the White Sox. ...
Golf is Dying!
by Bill Baer on Sunday, February 24th, 2008Posted in Media, Uncategorized | 18 Comments »
From The New York Times: More Americans Are Giving Up Golf. [...] Over the past decade, the leisure activity most closely associated with corporate success in America has been in a kind of recession. The total number of people who play ...
2008 MLB Optimism and Pessimism
by Bill Baer on Thursday, February 21st, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 7 Comments »
WHAT I'M NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO IN THE 2008 BASEBALL SEASON 1. Jon Miller and Joe Morgan on ESPN baseball broadcasts; Joe Buck and Tim McCarver on FOX baseball broadcasts. 2. Chris Berman and Back, Back, Back... Gone!, Albert 'Winnie the' Pujols, ...
Did Someone Take A Schmidt?
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 2 Comments »
Pardon the awful title... The rest have joined pitchers and catchers for some spring training fun in the sun, and you know what that means: it's time for Mike Schmidt to open his mouth again! Last year, Mike Schmidt called Pat Burrell ...
Kyle Kendrick Gets Punk’d
by Bill Baer on Sunday, February 17th, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
Kendrick Target of Elaborate Prank: After the Phillies' workout on Saturday, Ruben Amaro Jr. summoned Kendrick into manager Charlie Manuel's office at Bright House Networks Field. With a straight face, the assistant general manager told his gullible pitcher that he'd ...
This Has to be Some Sick Joke
by Bill Baer on Friday, February 15th, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 2 Comments »
Ah, power rankings. Nowhere are they more meaningless than in baseball. But Aram Tolegian, whom I've never heard of until just now, released "the first batch" of MLB power rankings for FOX Sports. It is a perfect storm: I have a ...
Oh, Happy Day
by Bill Baer on Monday, February 11th, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, NFL | 4 Comments »
Lots of fun stuff to talk about today. First, per With Leather, there's a few more Chris Berman videos out there on YouTube. A summary of the five videos that guy has: Berman complains about the teleprompter in colorful language. Berman talks ...
Harry Kalas Radio Interview
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 9 Comments »
WIP radio host Angelo Cataldi had a radio interview with Harry Kalas (it's 40 minutes and 33 seconds long). I could listen to Kalas talk about anything -- knitting, different types of leaves, flossing techniques -- for hours on end. His ...
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