Between March 30 and April 6 each and every year baseball pundits think long and hard. They take out their cauldrons, mix in last season’s results, add in each team’s off-season roster maneuvers, toss in some consideration for player growth/regressions, add in some magic potion, and voila, they have their pre-season predictions. Some pontificators use [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Do Golfers Always Play to Win?
I love Sunday at the Masters. Love It. Growing up in the Northeast, Sunday at the Masters represented the unofficial beginning of the warm weather season. Forget Groundhog Day and Puxentauny Phil’s shadow. Sure you may get another few snow storms, or may get one more cold spell, but the weather most certainly has begun [...]
Quality Starts: Just One Part of the Story
I kept hitting Refresh yesterday on my Internet Explorer as I watched one of my favorite young sleepers – Tampa Bay’s Matt Garza – throw an absolute gem in his first start of the year against the Red Sox. In Boston, mind you. 7 IP, four hits, five strikeouts and one earned run in what [...]
I’m Dunn With Adam. Please Walk Over, Albie.
I was having a discussion with a pal yesterday; the subject was Adam Dunn’s fantasy value. I offered my standard stathead Dunn rhetoric which says “I’ll accept the K’s as a byproduct of superior plate discipline which we all know leads to walks & power”. It’s a well known theory that may as well be [...]
NCAA Bracket Pools – Final Thought
Last week I wrote two posts around NCAA Bracket Pools. The former more focused on strategies to use while filling out a bracket, while the latter was about peculiarities of this year’s tournament and the bizarre situation I found myself in. For those losing sleep on how my bracket played, I can only say Vince [...]
The Luther Vandross Version
So I had a realization last night at about 10PM, only a few hours before Tarheel fans risked third-degree burns in celebration and just an hour into Jim Nantz’s desperate effort to figure out where Billy Packer was, that I did not have to wait through a horribly boring basketball game just to see the [...]
MLB Opening Day: It’s 3pm and…
I’ve been watching ESPN’s MLB Scoreboard for 2+ hours. A few thoughts for your afternoon poo-er: Good Lord should Cliff Lee be bothering owners right now. The Indians are down 4-0 in Texas, with Lee providing the fastballs resulting in all four earned runs, on six hits, in two innings. K:BB is 1:1. 28 strikes [...]
MLB Opening Day: Welcome, and Thanks for Coming
Today is a very important day, one-seventh of a very important week. Major League Baseball’s official Opening Day, the first of many days during which 162-games will be played by each team, was yesterday. This is the first Opening Day in recent memory that has not been played a week or so early in some [...]
There’s Only Room for One Jay Cutler in this Town
There are two Jay Cutlers. One is the dainty little Commodore turned Bronco who puts a few good years under his belt and thinks he’s the sheriff of the wild AFC West. The other is this man: Jay Cutler the Football Player is a weiner. 6’5″, 225. Laughable. The Real Jay Cutler is 5’9″, 310 [...]
The Collision of Game Theory & NCAA Brackets, part II
In part I of The Collision of Game Theory & NCAA Brackets, Vlookup Vince tossed out some ideas about how Game Theory can be leveraged to gain an advantage in filling out one’s annual NCAA bracket. Part II digs into the peculiarities of the 2009 tourney, and how Vlookup Vince again faces the opportunity to [...]
