I’m not a Braves fan by any stretch of the imagination, but the revelation that Ken Gurnick left Greg Maddux off his ballot for Cooperstown is incredibly frustrating. Gurnick’s fatuous argument that Maddux played in the Steroid Era and thus
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BBWAA Needs to Get Act Together
Winter Meetings Podcast, Tuesday!
Many thanks to Larry Hall and Jenn Greening for joining me on the Winter Meetings podcast! Some tech difficulties, but we worked through it!
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Left Stranded: Thoughts from the ALCS and NLCS
Sparse thoughts on the ALCS and NLCS so far (as Game 2 of the NLCS proceeds):
- The Yankees without Jeter are clearly a different team. Umpiring aside, the offensive performance of the Yankees in Game 2 was atrocious, and they
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Talking ALCS Game 1 with Jesse Goldberg-Strassler
After the wild and crazy Game 1 of the ALCS between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees, I had a lot of thoughts on the game and needed to talk them out. So I turned to Lansing Lugnuts broadcaster
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