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Remaining Schedules 84

Aug

5

2013

There’s been some consternation by many (including me, in my head), about the Rangers’ easier remaining schedule. Excluding head to head, Tx has: 10 vs. Ana 10 vs. Hou 6 vs. Sea 4 vs. TB 3 vs. KC 3 vs. Min. 3 vs. CHW 3 vs. Pit 2 vs. Mil The aggregate winning percentage of ...

It’s March. Let’s lounge. 607

Mar

1

2013

One more month until opening day. Add your own comments.

The can we talk about baseball now? grill 207

Feb

14

2013

Grant is dumb and will probably lose all his money (SBN warning), but I’m happy that he would take the over on the A’s. Mike already posted this in the lounge, but Balfour tore his meniscus (link by SuSlu) while throwing yesterday and will be out until roughly the start of the season. I’m not ...

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Jun

27

2012

Apparently, there is an afternoon game happening today right around now. In the meantime, maybe we can sit down for a Korean barbecue-style grill until then. Why not? 1. Tell me, Sasha Frere-Jones, what do Canadian cardboard cut out pop star poster child for immigration reform Justin Bieber and Japanese noise artist Merzbow have in ...

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Mar

16

2012

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The Iowa Caucus – One FKer’s view 160

Jan

2

2012

The Iowa Caucus is this Tuesday. I went to the 1988 Republican caucus, and thought I’d share my memories, and try to compare to the current state of affairs. First off, it is important to know that the caucus is not a primary election, instead, it’s the first step in selecting the delegates for each ...

Inside the writer’s studio: Ray Ratto 25

Sep

24

2011

Did Walter Haas want the SF market? 1

Jan

26

2011

Neil DeMause (proprietor of Field of Schemes) returns to BPro with an item on the A’s/San Jose/stadium situation. There’s nothing new to us in it, but it does seem to be much more accurate than any of the other national/internet wrapups we’ve seen of late. The one detail that did strike me as original was ...

Boras fires the first shot (via Robothal) in the battle over contraction 24

Jan

20

2011

Robothal jumps on board the San Jose bandwagon, armed with Scott Boras quotes, active ignorance of Victory Court, and passive ignorance of the realities of stadium development in SJ and Oakland (especially given Jerry’s doubling down on his anti-redev plan). The whole piece requires a thorough fisking (that’s what we have FSU for), but for ...

Further rank speculation on Olney’s source for the Lew-to-buy-Dodgers rank speculation 2

Jan

19

2011

Aaaaah, now I get it. MLB has the long knives out for McCourt. I suspect whomever put a bug in Olney’s ear about Lew moving (farther) south was someone in tOotC, or someone with an ownership group close to Selugworth, or someone with, say, an ownership group looking to curry favor/horsetrade with Selugworth …