Today, Deadspin’s Will Leitch announced that he is leaving Gawker’s sports site for the greener pastures of New York Magazine (Leitch’s mom promptly announced she is converting her basement to a sewing room). And so we take this opportunity to look back, to remember a simpler time, before Buzz Bissinger called us names, before $4 gas, before Big Papi’s wrist shattered into a million pieces. This interview is from January. It’s dark, and amateur, and vintage Leitch. Enjoy.
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November 8, 2009 - 12:25 pm
Here we go again. Time for another edition of our semi-annual “What They Need” series, where we play GM for all 30 teams. As usual, we’ll be suggesting subtle tweaks for some squads, and major overhalls for others. There’s already movement going on in the Hot Stove front, so there’s no time to waste!
Here’s a [...]
September 3, 2009 - 11:20 am
The 2003 Los Angeles Dodgers had one of the greatest pitching staffs the game of baseball has ever known. At the height of the steroids era, in a season when 104 players would test positive for performance enhancing drugs, the Dodgers hurlers posted a 3.16 ERA, good enough for an insane 128 team ERA+, and [...]
August 31, 2009 - 11:19 am
Okay, so at a time when most people are debating whether or not the Washington Nationals can even break .500 next season, this is going to sound more than a little crazy, but I think the Nats have an outside chance at contending next season.
I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but I am saying [...]
June 29, 2009 - 9:30 pm
We here at Umpbump have done quite a few all-time teams. We’ve also cataloged quite a series of Hot Baseball Wives. In this post, I will attempt the acrobatic feat of bridging the twain. Yes, reader: The All-Hot Team.
For reasons of attention span, or specifically, the lack of it, I am focusing on current major [...]
May 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Scherzer is an absolute phenom who should be quite impressive for such a newbie. What I like most about him is his composure and his fire. He knows exactly what he wants to accomplish, and is ultra competitive out there. I swiped him up very quickly in my fantasy league :-)
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May 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 am
You know I didn\’t really expect to have a shot at Scherzer with my #9 waiver priority, but until now I still had a tiny bit of hope. Damn.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 8:06 am
Me too, Scott. Me too.
[Tear slowly rolls down cheek]
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