Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not the biggest fan of biographies. Far too often, I find them lacking in actual content and bereft of the compelling moments that made up the subjects’ lives. Not that biographies don’t cover those moments, mind you. Rather, it’s that I’ve found it to be the case, especially […]
It’s been some time since any baseball news broke that I felt was worth running to my keyboard to cover for the site. Sure, cool stuff has happened as well as the typical baseball being shitty stuff. None of that jumped out at me though as something worth expounding and extrapolating on. Any sport that […]
Branding in professional baseball is hard. Not always, but a lot of the time there aren’t any slam dunk ways to market your baseball team and you settle on what you think will work the best. Then there are the times when what you think will work the best is you as an affiliated minor […]
When I wrote about Jan Novák a couple of weeks back I proclaimed him the best player in the Czech Republic’s Extraliga. There’s no denying that Novák is the best pitcher in the league and worthy of all kinds of acclaim. However, I was wrong in my proclamation. No matter what Novák does he will […]
Background Located in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin suburb of Franklin, the easily named Franklin Field has been in operation since 2019. That year the park was known as Routine Field and after an ugly legal spat over naming rights, the ballpark was briefly known as Milkmen Stadium during the off-season before officially becoming Franklin Field for […]