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Posted onSeptember 22, 2017September 22, 2017inArchivesby Ben Shibata

Under Further Review: The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

When I visited Wrigley Field back in 2013, the Cubs were just one year into rebuilding the team under the […]

Posted onSeptember 4, 2017November 15, 2017inFootball, Humor, Miscellany, More, Reviewsby Ben Shibata

Brett Favre Endorsements: My Painful Journey into the World of Hocus-pocus Marketing

Posted onAugust 28, 2017inBaseball, Culture, Miscellanyby David Morgan

So Your Kid Sucks At Baseball. How To Deal With It?

Posted onAugust 17, 2017February 25, 2022inBaseball, Humorby Lucas Hubbard

How to Watch (and Bet!) the Little League World Series

Posted onJuly 31, 2017July 31, 2017inBaseball, Miscellany, Sportsby Lucas Hubbard

Taking the Season One Click at a Time, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Sports Trackers

Posted onJuly 27, 2017October 19, 2017inArchives, Baseball, Humor, Sportsby Ben Shibata6 min read

A Five-tool Writer

In baseball, there is a phrase used to describe a complete ballplayer: a five-tool player.  First talked about in The […]

Posted onJuly 10, 2017inBaseball, Sportsby Geoff Young8 min read

What Happened, and What We Imagined

I remember where I was when Matt Davidson fouled off a pitch from Jharel Cotton. I was sitting at home […]

Posted onJuly 7, 2017inBaseball, Humor, Miscellany, Reviews, Sportsby Ben Shibata6 min read

Review: Costco’s Baseball Ticket Deal

TL;DR -For $64.99 you get voucher for 2 tickets, 2 hot dogs, and 2 small sodas -You still have to […]

Posted onJuly 3, 2017July 3, 2017inBaseball, Sportsby Jim McIntyre3 min read

The Mets Need to Focus on Rebuilding Now

Things started off so promisingly for the Mets this year. Their fearsome pitching rotation were finally all healthy at the […]

Posted onJune 28, 2017June 28, 2017inBaseball, Culture, Sportsby Geoff Young7 min read

Embracing Fear: How Dennis Eckersley Beat the Bottle and Rode His Rebound into Cooperstown

Looking for Courage in All the Wrong Places The path to greatness doesn’t normally include a stop at rock bottom. […]

Posted onJune 21, 2017June 28, 2017inBasketball, Culture, Sportsby Lucas Hubbard10 min read

Sam Hinkie, Travis Kalanick, and The False Promise of a Better Tomorrow

Thanks to an essay from former Uber employee Susan Fowler Rigetti, it’s clear that the company—which is run by a […]

Posted onJune 12, 2017June 28, 2017inArchives, Sportsby Jeff Polman8 min read

Remember the Kekiongas! Escaping down an 1871 Retrosheet Rabbit Hole

Through rain, sleet, snow, gloom of night, and horrific political climates, nothing cheerily drops you down a rabbit hole better […]

Posted onJune 1, 2017June 2, 2017inBook Clubby Mike Moore1 min read

Crooked Book Club (Book #1; Post #1)

OK, fans of the written word, the Crooked Book Club is preparing to ramp up. Our inaugural book is “The […]

Posted onMay 1, 2017May 1, 2017inBasketball, Humorby Lucas Hubbard1 min read

Adversity in Building Team Chemistry: Or, When to Laugh at Chris Paul

“Happy basketball teams are all alike; every unhappy basketball team is unhappy in its own way.” – Anna Karenina, paraphrased […]

Posted onApril 1, 2017February 16, 2026inBaseball, Culture, Sportsby Geoff Young1 min read

The Irresistible Call of Spring Training

My wife and I spent March 2016 in Phoenix watching baseball. It might have been the best month of my […]

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