Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Everyone loves a good baseball story and boy, are there plenty of baseball story types. The redemption arc, the wonderful comeback, the career turnaround, overcoming adversity, and more. The oddball stories are probably my favorite, the ones that combine elements from many of the story types into one journey. Those stories don’t come along all […]
If there’s one thing this website needs, it’s yet another column. Listen, I like to categorize things, I’m a big fan of things being neat and tidy. Hence this website having so many columns despite them all being written by myself and two other people. Anyways, my latest idea was for an occasional column detailing […]
There are a lot of unaffiliated leagues the world over. I can’t possibly watch them all, though I try my best to give each and every one of them their fair shake. The end result of me covering so much of the unaffiliated baseball world (to toot my own horn I’m the only person covering […]
Not a single soul among those who follow Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League are interested in hearing the pained moans of a Rakuten Monkeys fan. After a decade of absolute dominance as the Lamigo Monkeys, the team that is lovingly known as the Peach Apes fell on hard times over the last season and a […]
I’m a fan of baseball history, anyone who follows me on Twitter or reads my writing regularly knows this is the case. My wife knows this as well, she’s also quite aware of my lifelong fandom of the Chicago Cubs. Thus, when thinking of random gifts to get me for some occasion or another, she […]