Category: Recaps 2013

If you’ll pardon the big graphic spread, the following is a simple bar graph showing the career WAR for every #25, #26, and #27 pick taken in the MLB amateur draft to date, sorted best (Alan Trammel, 70.3) to worst (Jeff...

So last year I got assigned Jose Constanza, Tyler Pastornicky and J.C. Boscan. My editor, AAR, was so pleased with my ability to wrench some manner of amusement out of barely serviceable parts that this year I have been...

One that don’t make me sick. One that don’t make me crash my car. One that don’t make me feel six feet thick. Yes. I did just throw Huey Lewis at you. Yes I did. On the question of Fred McGriff, I propose a new...

So, major league baseball just went nuts and did something I’ve been hoping for for a long time. Almost everything is challengeable now. Here are four of the main bullet points, as the AP writes: —Each manager will have...

The Braves have announced plans to move to a new stadium in Cobb County in 2017, after (what will have been) 20 years of calling Turner Field home. I don’t have a lot of thoughts at the moment. The team’s website for...

This Halloween is especially terrifying, as the other Boston team won another World Series. So, in the spirit of the season, here’s what I’m especially afraid of in 2014: • Over the course of the offseason, Frank...

New thread for the sake of new threadness. There was some question about B-REF’s numbers on the last SWAG at this, so this time I’ve decided to guess at individual arbitration and contract assignments for various...

For those of you born after 1989… Christ I’m old. *sigh* For those of you born after 1989, “Kremlinology” is/was the art of attempting to predict and interpret actions, statements and behaviors coming out...

We had them where we wanted them. We had matched the best pitcher in baseball with our sixth best starter. Our back up second baseman and our sixth outfielder put us ahead. We were playing like we were the team up two games to...

The Texans started out this game the same way they ended the last one, with a pick-6 by Matt Schaub. It was pretty well-timed, too. Chris Collinsworth had just made a joke about Schaub having tied the record for consecutive...

  Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment.                                                                nana mouskouri chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie.   so we...

ESPN Box Score If you were looking for that Game 1 tone-setting victory for the rest of the series… this was not it. In spite of all of the optimism going in to this game from the players and beat writers (and most of us,...

ESPN Box Score The Braves will face the Dodgers in the NLDS beginning this Thursday. Turns out today’s game didn’t matter because the Cubs suck, but for my money it was a pretty fun game. Everybody showed up for...

Sevierville, TN… Tennessee sports bars are most accommodating! …. Five big screens ,  despite conflicting local interests they readily switched  one of them to the Braves game an hour before the first pitch…...

ESPN Box Score There’s nothing like playing a struggling Phillies team to cure whatever ails you, especially when they start Tyler Cloyd. The Braves scored 7 runs off of Cloyd and knocked him out of the game after he had only...

Milwaukee Brewers vs. Atlanta Braves – Box Score – September 25, 2013 – ESPN Great, I’m recapping another weird-fight game. Getting the boring stuff out of the way on the front end: T–he Braves lost...

So we open with Cobie Smulders revisiting her role as Agent Maria Hill – she was the operational officer in charge of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier while Nick Fury was off glowering at people with one eye – explaining...

While we work our way through this muddled week of games that don’t count really but really they still do, refresh the mind and stir the senses with these two happenings outside of that parochial circle – one took...

Since this is my last regular season write up and there was no way the Braves were going to win after Sunday’s celebration, I have decided to go a different direction with my recap. Don’t worry, game five of the World Series...