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The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

David Steele writes achingly about his recent brush with press box reality today. The Baltimore Sun veteran was canned on the job recently. He was pul...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 06, 2009

Greinke Now Statistically Absurd

Chris Sprow

...to win the Cy Young Award some day." Maybe that'll happen this year. It's a baseball story -- an umpire and catcher both bearing witness to the marvel they were seeing and working with...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 05, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...cruel fate, the media maven LeBron that he is, LeBron might be better off pulling his Jordan baseball exodus now. Maybe the Pirates? Elsewhere… Chinese men and their high-heeled running. Repressed much? The...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 29, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

Chipper Jones has hit, as our handy Baseball Prospectus notes, an absurd .332 with a .430 OBP and a .585 slugging percentage over the the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 08, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...wind will now get you booked. So softball gets the boot, and now we want women's baseball in the Olympics

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...and pranks!—for a new clubhouse of A's. The guy is extremely well-liked across baseball, even if a few fans still find his lapse into steroid era immorality unforgiveable. • Roger's...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 18, 2009

De-Juicing a Fathead

Chris Sprow

What did Fathead do when Alex Rodriguez admitted steroid use?

Story | Conversation | March 11, 2009

Tim Lincecum: Behind the Shoot

Chris Sprow

...cleats, a hat—all the essentials for an ESPN The Magazine photo shoot—but no baseball glove. So we set about with him, his agent, Dad and girlfriend in the back of the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 25, 2009

The NEXT: NFL Yeoman

Chris Sprow

...called it "The Thor Package'' and it just kind of stuck with me. Why didn't the baseball thing work out? (He was a 2003 draft pick as a pitcher with the Chicago White Sox...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 20, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

Nate Silver will tell you that projecting a baseball season, as he and our friends at Baseball Prospectus do every year, and have once again this...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 11, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...A-Rod a rightful villain now, while Shawn Merriman is a forgotten issue? But that's simple. Baseball players using PEDs to extend their performance are killing records and the chances of non-cheating players...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 10, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...easier to project college talent, and because the financial playing field in college football makes Major League Baseball's inequities look like sporting socialism. Like election day in congress, today offers a couple surprises and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 04, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...his career, Rodriguez merely continues to create what will be the statistically greatest career the game of baseball has ever seen. He'll slug perhaps 800 home runs, hit over .300, drive in well over...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 27, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...title in the 1980s. Ironic too, that Reagan's controversial Reagonomics policies are now closer to what baseball uses today than any other sport—limited revenue-sharing, but not outright sporting socialism—and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 21, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

Just as it was last night during his record-setting performance, 2005 was was a fine time for Jodie Meeks. That was when he signed on to play for Kent...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 14, 2009