Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Often we discuss baseball as a whole. Not as the parts that makeup baseball, but as the entire idea that is baseball played out before our eyes. There’s nothing wrong with viewing baseball this way, but the real strength of baseball for me is in the moments that make the whole of baseball possible. Never […]
I grew up in a working-class home. It never felt that way because my parents (well, parent until the man I would call Dad entered the picture years later) were the sort of Democrats who felt like they weren’t working-class. To them being working-class was bad in some way, despite the fact that we oscillated […]
One of the things I struggle with in life is the idea that my experience is not the same as the person sitting right next to me, or across from me, or seven countries away from me. There’s an immediacy to what I experience and I often find myself operating under the assumption that others […]
I write a lot on this site about unaffiliated baseball. It has become the main driving force behind Words Above Replacement. The purpose or goal of this site has never been to shame Major League Baseball fans for being fans of that organization. I am a Chicago Cubs fan, after all, that hasn’t changed even […]
I recently changed jobs, well, not jobs but departments. I left my rural Illinois border department and took a job with a department in the metropolitan Milwaukee area. It’s presented a lot of changes, and to say I’m still getting the hang of those changes would be an understatement. One of the biggest differences has […]