Saturday, July 10, 2004

Game 85: Kip Wells at Rocky Biddle

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In his new book, the Numbers game, Alan Schwarz tells the story of a bowtied Baltimore gentleman, Earnshaw Cook, who published a book, Perc...

Pythagorean standings before and after an 11-0 win

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Read this article from the New York Times if you've never heard of Pythagorean standings. It's a beautiful and simple formula that ...
Friday, July 09, 2004

All hails explained

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Years ago Bones & I lived together in a house with like seven other guys. One roomate was a Cal Ripken fan with the nerve to claim that ...

your Rookie of the Year

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All hail Jason Bay .

Game 84, Sean Burnett at Shawn Hill

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In the battle of first names, Sean vs. Shawn is up there with John vs. Jon, Bo vs. Beau, and Caitlynn vs. Katelynn vs. Kaitlin etc. Shawn H...

Jayson Stark: Pirates Rumblings

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ESPN's Jayson Stark serves up some news on the Pirates at the trade deadline. This part doesn't surprise me: Littlefield won't...

More Stink Night

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Leeny of 'Toona shares this in the comments: More followup to Stink Night -- the Altoona Mirror beat writer (Cory Giger) covered the bal...

Benson in the news

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Bob Smizik has good advice today for Littlefield. After Littlefield's experience dealing Jason Schmidt, I trust he has a better idea of...

Kris Benson - Ty Wigginton skepticism

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The daily news sites for fantasy players are abuzz with the word that a Benson for Wigginton deal is "alive" or "imminent....

Handsome Pirate hats

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One reader writes this morning to ask where he can get one of those hats that Luis Clemente wore on TV yesterday. 70s yellow (not early 70s ...

Turn back the clock night

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Look for the '69 style uniforms tonight. Ed Eagle reports : Friday, the Pirates and Expos will turn the clock back to 1969, the first ye...

Roberto Clemente

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With the Pirates in San Juan, there are a lot of reports about Clemente and the way the Pirates and Expos are honoring his memory. Steve Nov...

Scoops

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Bob Barrickman catches up with Al Oliver for the Beaver County & Allegheny County Times. Turns out he's a deacon living in Ohio now...

Kevin Jarvis

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A sign that the Pirates will need starters at AAA Nashville: they signed Kevin Jarvis , that guy the Mariners wanted to trade to us, to a m...
Thursday, July 08, 2004

Game 83: Kris Benson at Tony Armas

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Carve 'em up, Kris. ...rats.

Trade deadline rumormongering

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Two general reports worth noting. Chris De Luca at the Chicago Sun-Times provides a list of available players and breaks down needs and des...

Stink night

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WTF? Did they hand out scratch-n-sniff cards as a promotion? Who came to the park just to help Altoona "salute odors of all kinds...

Willis Roberts

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He's throwing 92-95 with a good sinkerball, according to the notebooks of Bob Dvorchak and Joe Rutter . They will catch you up on the ...

Mac on pitch counts

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One of these days I'll collect all Mac's comments on pitch counts and see how they add up to some consistent philosophy. He's of...

Steve Novotney

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Steve Novotney has been on a roll for The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register. Today he has a report on Benson's side of all this trad...