Danny Espinosa: A Lesson in Follicular Proliferation
The baseball offseason is a time to work on things. Add some muscle, fine tune that changeup, get surgery for that nagging injury, perhaps even get into the ever popular ‘best shape of your life’. For...
View ArticleDrawing the Line
There was big news in sabermetrics and overall baseball geekery today. I’ll let Rob Neyer fill us in: In today's Crazy Big Nerd News, FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference.com have agreed to standardize...
View ArticleSo I Married A Blue Jays Fan
As you might have seen by now, the Toronto – Cleveland game yesterday was highlighted by a, shall we say, enthusiastic Jays fan, whose terrifying pleasure of grabbing a bat, courtesy of Indians’...
View ArticleLies, Damn Lies, and Yasiel Puig’s Age
I get a lot of questions on this blog. Why are you still writing this crap? Do bears eat beets? Who is Doug Slaten? …and of course – how do I baseball? I do my best to answer these questions, mostly...
View ArticleMannying Up
Inspiration strikes us all in weird ways on occasion. For some, it comes from a particular person of repute or venerability. Perhaps a scene or experience from nature can strike a chord and propel a...
View ArticleSo, uh, last night: WTF? moments from the Nats-Padres game
Despite a discouraging loss at the hands of the Friars of San Diego (more specifically, former Washington National and the only two-time Tommy John surgery survivor position player Xavier Nady), last...
View Article(Nationals) Park(s) and Recreation
If you’re like me, if you aren’t watching baseball, you’re watching Parks and Recreation episodes, making every effort to find ways to incorporate the wisdom of Ron Swanson into your everyday life. Or...
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