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July 9, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
June 28, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
Americans are big fans of cognitive dissonance. It's hard to identify a single segment of society that doesn't have a significant amount of hypocrisy.
June 21, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
Let's check out the Florida State and California Leagues.
June 14, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
Drinking games!
May 24, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
Ok, so Mike Piazza says he's not gay. Bobby Valentine says that MLB's ready to deal with an openly gay player. Mike Timlin says he's already knowingly played with a gay player. Steve Phillips says that statistically, you'd expect a gay player in every clubhouse. He also encapsulates a lot of good thinking on the subject by saying "Who cares?"
by Gary Huckabay
May 17, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
Among longtime rabid fans, there's a kind of vague denial, wrapped around the idea that "there's no way they'd let 1994-95 happen again." With all due respect to those people, 1994-95 wasn't that bad for the owners or players. It was bad for addicts. I don't think I got rid of the shakes until about 1997. Baseball attendance recovered almost immediately, well before the Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa show.
by Gary Huckabay
May 10, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
Anyway, let's go on to the minors. I apologize if there's not a lot of breadth here; I'm focusing on those guys who I've been able to talk to some scouts about, and I'll get to more over the course of the season. I'm concentrating on guys with some upside, or guys who, for some reason or other, are interesting because their level of performance may have changed.
by Gary Huckabay
May 3, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
May 2, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
As the Month of Gory Managerial Death fades away, is there some sort of central lesson that can be learned from the various dugout purges? Were the decisions to hire Davey Lopes, Phil Garner, Tony Muser, and Buddy Bell just bad decisions from the outset, or were they good decisions that just didn't have good outcomes? Is there anything at all to be learned from this wave of firings? What will a smart organization take away from all this?
One word thrown around a lot when a manager is fired is "accountability." At the end of the day, managers are accountable for what happens on the field--the wins and losses.
April 19, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
Some thoughts on Ichiro Suzuki and baseball's "inevitable" return to Washington, D.C.
by Gary Huckabay
April 12, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
As I explained last week, we asked the attendees at each Pizza Feed to predict the results of the divisional races this year, along with the World Series winner, major award winners, managerial firings, etc. This week, we'll take a look at the American League divisional races.
by Gary Huckabay
April 5, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
This week, let's take a look at the divisional races in the National League. For each division, the average rank of each team is listed, along with the standard deviation for each team, which is a measure of how much variability there was for each team. The lower the deviation, the more agreement there is about that team's place in the standings.
by Gary Huckabay
March 29, 2002
by Gary Huckabay
I ran across a piece at the Baltimore Sun Web site, read through it, then spent two hours on an exercise bike and at the driving range to try to calm down. It hasn't worked, so I want to run through this piece, and begin to scratch the surface of what's wrong in Baltimore.
by Gary Huckabay
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