• Howard: I stream it through my TV with my PS3, and I'm not experiencing problems as ...

One point upon which stat geeks and grit-o-philes can agree is that swinging at balls outside the strike zone is a bad idea. I mean, sure, guys like Yogi Berra and Vlad Guerrero became superstars despite their penchant for being less selective than Mark Grace in a slump. But unless you’re a freak, plate discipline [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! After a grueling competition that has lasted 13 months, during which time the judges read dozens and dozens of submissions, we are finally able to award the coveted title of “NY Sportswriter Most In Love With Jeff Francoeur”. And the winner of this prestigious award is… Mike Sielski [...]

According to Joel Sherman of the NY Post, the Mets and GM Omar Minaya have a clear-cut strategy as the trade deadline looms: “The Mets are trying to locate a pitcher (probably a reliever) who is overpriced and not having a particularly strong season” That’s just awesome. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with [...]

A few months ago, I went through a partial list of my favorite active player names. So to all of you who read it, I have but one question. WHY THE HELL DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME THAT THERE IS A CONTEST TO DETERMINE THE BEST NAME IN THE MINORS??? This has been going on for [...]

According to the title of an article in today’s edition of the New York Daily News, Mets’ CFer Carlos Beltran “vows to boycott Arizona All-Star game, if selected, over law.” You got that, Arizona? Carlos Beltran would rather change his grandmother’s diapers before playing at an All-Star game in your stinking state and spits in [...]

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    • » Howard I stream it through my TV with my PS3, and I’m not experiencing problems as bad as yours, but I do...
    • » Tamar I’ve used MLBtv for years and I think that while it continues to get better, there have been some...
    • » e I canceled my service 2 seasons ago because it just never got better (put up with it since 1st day it was rolled...
    • » David Thanks for the response. I think you meant “above average” in the corners, but true on the...
    • » Robert Wayne More ballplayers should be wearing their pants the way Nyjer Morgan does. Although, I’m an...

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August 24, 2010

Note to copy editors: Please think of a different headline for Matt Cain stories

Dear ESPN copy editors, Monday was at least the second time you’ve run a “Cain Is Able” headline on the front page. You’ve run variations on this headline in the past. Other sites have used the headline, too. Here’s an info box where you used “Cain Is Able” as the header: It’s time to think of [...]

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August 2, 2010

Crowdsourcing the Greats: The Greatest Center Fielders of All Time

We turn now to center fielders as we continue our ongoing series wherein we seek out the best players of all time at each position using the preposterous method of randomly googling the first top-10 lists we can find at that position and adding up the rankings. As in the past, the rankings are on [...]

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July 19, 2010

Crowdsourcing the Greats: The Greatest Left Fielders of All Time

It’s time to continue our ongoing series wherein we derive rankings for the top players of all time at each position on the diamond by adding up each player’s rankings on the first ten top-10 lists to appear in a Google search, on the somewhat suspect assumption that millions of clicks and thousands of links [...]