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Monday, July 02, 2007 |
Pickoff Moves
Quickly, now --
S.I. Timmermann
Congratulations to Bob Timmermann for his recent piece at Sports Illustrated. His regular blog, The Griddle, was originally an afterthought at the Baseball Toaster consortium, and he's turned it into a space I visit every day.Cubs In Rearview Mirror Are Better Than They Appear
As 6-4-2's official Third Team, the Cubs are of special interest around here, but I don't comment on them much unless they appear poised to do something especially good or bad. And bad is what most folks expect of the Cubs, who have played in Wrigley without a title since 1908. But in fact, this stretch of frustration is vastly overblown, for the Cubs have rarely been truly awful. As proof, Chris Jaffe at The Hardball Times tried to assemble the worst teams of all time to play in a computer simulation to find out who really, truly was the worst, once and for all. Surprisingly, Jaffe had to excise all Cubs teams, as none of them really made the cut; only one Wrigley squad really came close to making his four-division crapatacular league, the 1962 team that lost 103 games despite playing an even-worse 120-loss Mets squad, the modern record. Part 2: how did they all do? (Via BTF.)Bay Area Columnist Apologizes For Calling Beane A Racist, Rivers Flow Backwards, Dogs And Cats Living Together, Etc.
Del Grande apologizes to Billy Beane for calling him a racist. This reminds me of a former boss who claimed that "nigger" was a perfectly acceptable locution where he grew up because it could refer to a black or a white. I was not so impressed.
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