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Kris Bryant playing for the Iowa Cubs.
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 01-28-2019

Ivy Envy – Teagan: The Chicago Cubs need Kris Bryant to be, well, Kris Bryant in 2019. There’s no denying that 2018 was a down year for the former National League Most Valuable Player. However, before his shoulder became an issue, Bryant was on pace to have his best year yet. Now that his injured […]

Posted on January 28, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Robinson Cancel managing a game for Tomateros de Culiacán in a 2018-2019 season game.
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The Playoffs Have Been Cancelled!

I never really think about getting fired from my job. It’s true that the possibility exists, but I don’t fancy the notion and don’t allow it to enter my thoughts on a regular basis. Even if I did, I’m reasonably certain that I wouldn’t be fired while in the middle of the most important part […]

Posted on January 23, 2019August 21, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Tom Ricketts answers questions at a press conference.
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 01-21-2019

One of my favorite daily columns is Morning Mound Visit from Beyond the Box Score. In it, BtBS’s Managing Editor, Matt Provenzano, picks three recent sabermetrically inclined articles to highlight for BtBS’s readers to check out. That column is requisite reading for me every single day. Inevitably I discover a few articles every week that […]

Posted on January 21, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Ben Tincup poses for a picture in his warm-up sweater.
Bridging the Two-Way Gap

Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Ben Tincup

For a few years, I was lucky enough to consider myself among the burgeoning number of fans who were falling in love with Shohei Ohtani. Nowadays everyone, sans New York Yankees fans, is in love with the slugging flamethrower. That’s good though because they should be; Ohtani is awesome, and really all that is good […]

Posted on January 7, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comments(2)
Iconic photo of Kenesaw Mountain Landis holding a baseball.
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Even Mountains Must Fall

A few weeks back I sat down and was searching for something to watch while I ate dinner in my tiny apartment. During my browsing, I came across 2016’s Jackie Robinson and realized that somehow I had never gotten around to the documentary. Ken Burns’ Baseball has been a staple in my life for many […]

Posted on January 3, 2019August 21, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comments(2)

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