MLB on TV: Wacky Wild Card Races
In the marathon of the 162-game MLB season it’s now the final stretch with the finishing line in sight. With three games to play all the division winners have been crowned. Champagne corks have popped for the Yankees, Detroit, Texas, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Arizona who can now relax for just a few short days until the Division Series start next weekend. … Read more...
Confessions of a Fantasy Deadline Dealer
Those who’ve followed the world of major league baseball for a few years cannot have failed to be drawn into the world of fantasy baseball. In its traditional form, known as “roto”, an auction or draft is held so that each real life player can be owned by only one player in the league.… Read more...
A Tale of a Fantasy Baseball Draft, Irish Style
A typical April showery Sunday in Dublin saw a group of sports fans arrive at Slattery’s of Ringsend, slinking their way to the upstairs bar. Most had told their other halves that they were just dropping down to the pub to watch a match. No, you can’t come.… Read more...
How To Choose Your Own Baseball Team
Published over at The Score: http://thescore.thejournal.ie/follow-that-how-to-choose-your-very-own-baseball-team-113653-May2011/
With Baseball’s Opening Day yesterday, it’s time to choose a team to follow this season. Sport is always more fun when you’ve a team to root for.Of course, maybe you’ve a team already. Perhaps you were in Chicago on a J-1 visa for the summer, dragged along to Wrigley Field for some beer in the summer sun with the Cubs playing some baseball as a backdrop; you paid little interest but that Cubs hat is still at home in your bedroom.
MLB Opening Day… almost here…
Book Review: Baseball Forecaster
Baseball Forecaster
by Ron Shandler (et al.)
Each year Ron Shandler and his cohorts come up with some of the best baseball analysis and forecasting in the industry and place it all into approximately 300 pages of fantasticness.
This is no different.
Not for the casual fan; this is highly-focussed stuff where many pages upon first glance would seem like log tables.… Read more...
Book Review: Out of My League
Out of My League: The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball
by George Plimpton
This pleasantly short read provides one with an account of how the author arranged to pitch to the lineups at the 1958 MLB All-Star game, to be played at the great Yankee Stadium, and to write an article about the experience to feature in Sports Illustrated.
The Baseball Hall of Fame
One of the interesting whimsies of stateside sports is their love of Halls of Fame (yes, with capital letters). There is a Hall of Fame for the NFL (Canton, Ohio), the NBA (Springfield, Mass.), the NHL (Toronto, Canada) and almost every other sport you could think of, whether at professional, college or amateur level.… Read more...
