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January 7, 2010 - 8:06 am
Crowdsourcing the Greats: The Top Second Basemen of All Time
I can’t say I’m surprised, considering it’s the BWAA, but still, when it came down to it, I was actually pretty sure that Roberto Alomar was going to get into the Hall on his first ballot, if only because he obviously deserves to be in and because the ballot was so thin this year, at [...]
January 5, 2010 - 10:35 am
Crowdsourcing the Greats: The Top 10 Shortstops of All Time
Recently, as I was writing my post on why Barry Larkin deserves to be a first-ballot hall-of-famer, I got to wondering who the top 10 shortstops of all time are. In order to get an answer, I decided to crowdsource my question to the internet!
What I did was I went to Google and looked up [...]
January 4, 2010 - 1:25 pm
Annual UmpBump Hall of Fame Balloting: 2010 Edition
This year UmpBump continues its annual tradition of honoring the greats by casting our vote for who we think deserves to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. As always, we vote not just on players currently eligible for Hall of Fame voting under baseball’s arcane eligibility rules, but for any and all [...]
- 2:35 am
Barry Larkin should go into the Hall on the first ballot (although he probably won’t)
To my mind Barry Larkin is a stone cold lock for the Hall of Fame, even though there are probably enough people with short memories or who are just not paying attention among the BWAA to insure that he doesn’t get in this year.
Larkin had the complete package. An outstanding hitter with an .815 career [...]



October 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I am going to take this as a Write-Your-Own-Caption:
“I’m telling you, it’s way more absorbent than it looks—it totally controls my shine!”
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October 3rd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
This guy is one step away from “making it rain.” It’s something I expect to see in a Dave Chappelle Rick James sketch.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Take a look at the wad of cash in his other hand.
I have an idea, maybe he can send some of his spare change out here to California. We need to borrow some money.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Kirk, I will donate five dollars to your favorite charity if you can find me a video clip of the Governator trying to pronounce the word “liquidity”. I read the letter he wrote to Paulson, which uses the term this morning. And I haven’t been able to stop trying to imagine him saying “liquidity” ever since.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Paul, only losers donate five dollars to charity. If you were cool, you’d rub a c-note on your face.
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October 4th, 2008 at 12:16 am
he uses his fifties to wipe his ass.
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October 4th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Pay up.
http://www.kcra.com/video/17619270/index.html
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October 4th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Kirk, thank you. It was exactly as I had hoped. And yes, I’m a man of my word. Pick a charity and a gift will be made in your honor.
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October 5th, 2008 at 12:31 am
In memory of Rita Herkal, a friend of mine who worked with this organization building schools in Malawi, please make the donation to Building with Books.
http://www.buildingwithbooks.org/default.aspx
Thanks,
Kirk
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October 5th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
He’s got old man hands!
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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