Slightly Better than Replacement Level
This past week was no different than any other week as far as Major League Baseball and Rob Manfred are concerned. It was yet another week where we were all reminded of just how much Manfred hates the game of baseball. Personally, I’m sick of digging deep into the Manfred regime. As every layer of […]
For months now people have been crying about baseball coming back. We all know that they really meant Major League Baseball and not baseball in general. Well, it’s time for people to admit that MLB is in the middle of a justifiable labor dispute and there may not be an MLB season this year. Even […]
Gordon Wittenmyer – Chicago Sun-Times: The Ricketts family can’t stop putting themselves into hot water. The solution for the Chicago Cubs’ owners is simple, stop being racist. Time and again they are simply unable to stop letting their racist colors fly. Whether it’s father Joe’s litany of racist emails or son Pete’s “you people” comments, […]
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 […]
ESPN recently aired a trailer for Long Gone Summer, a soon to be released documentary about the 1998 home run chase between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire. As a longtime Chicago Cubs fan who loved Sosa and was 17-years-old in 1998 this documentary is right in my wheelhouse. Watching the trailer I kept thinking and […]