Analyzing Sportsbook's "Game of the Year" lines.
Checking in on the AL MVP race.
Poor judgment by Melky.
One pitch, one out, Save #42. MVP? Um...no.
Seattle's use of Vidro continues to defy logic.
Rovell on issues with withdrawing from online betting sites.
Jeterate (verb) meaning “to praise someone for something of which he or she is entirely unworthy of praise.”David Price outduels Pedro Martinez. Very cool.
Q: Has looking at the numbers prevented you from actually just enjoying a summer day at the ballpark? Have we all forgotten the randomness of human ballplayers? By reducing players to just their numbers can we lose sight of the intangibles such as teamwork, friendships, and desire.A: Does looking at pretty women prevent one from experiencing love? Life is complicated. Your efforts to compartmentalize it are lame and useless.
Find me someone who tells stories better than Joe Posnanski. Please.
I don't get this. I'll let MoneyLine elaborate. He looked at the most efficient (according to Pomeroy) offenses and defenses of the last five years, concluding:"Lastly, and by far most importantly to my cause, is the fact that only one team appears on both of these Top 10 lists. That team is the 2008 Kansas Jayhawks, who strictly by the numbers weigh in with the top defense and 5th best offense of the last 5 years.Whether Kansas would beat 2004 Duke or 2007 Florida is irrelevant. They don’t have to. My motive for comparing 2008 Kansas to teams of the recent past is to give the non-believers an even deeper appreciation for just how balanced this squad is.
Comparing them to only 2008 squads, Kansas ranks 1st in both offensive AND defensive efficiency, which is a pretty incredible feat in my opinion."
Kansas is currently 5th in both polls, a projected 2 seed, 8th in RPI, and not even the top seed in their conference tournament. This is allowing them to fly under the radar, and is the reason for these odds.
This information is also fairly meaningless (except for their seed, which is important but subject to change). The Jayhawks may not win it all, or even reach San Antonio, but right now, by any predictive, objective measure, they're the best team in the nation.A leaner, more muscular Victor Martinez stepped into the batter’s box Friday morning on one of the back fields at Chain of Lakes Park.You know it. The Indians also won their ST opener.
‘’Then if you’re a nice guy, they are going to treat you the same way. [Expletive] it, be an ####### then. I would rather be an ####### winning than be a nice guy [expletive] losing. Give me an ####### who can win, don’t give me a nice guy who can [expletive] lose.’"
ESPN jumped the gun on the UAB-Memphis game. How does that happen? Is it really so difficult to wait two minutes?
"Seriously, if I said that Raul Ibanez could run down a routine fly ball, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'd be lying."Derek Jeter: a below average fielder!? Man, what are they smoking down at Penn?
