After a lovely All-Star Break, the Cubicle GM Power Rankings are fully refreshed and back in action. With the return of Joey to the group, we have a full complement of contributors and an interesting set of rankings to discuss. Amazingly, despite the two week period between rankings, most teams did not shift too far [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
The Spread Offense: “All Your Base Are Belong To Us.”
It’s no secret that in college football over the past decade the spread offense has gone from obscurity to obsession. ESPN.com is reporting that 46 48 of the 120 teams in the FBS ran a spread-based offense or variation last season (at least 75% of the time), or plan to in 2009. Among them are [...]
Red Sox Buchholz Rant
Its Rant Week for Gideon here at CubicleGM. After feeling great about getting some All Star related troubles off my chest, I return for some Red Sox and Buchholz related ranting. I have been diligent to not let my personal allegiances dominate my posts., but a mere four months after my first , I am [...]
A George Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Ah, well, I can’t say that it exactly feels “good” to be back, but here we are. As has been widely reported and tagged innovatively by my cohorts here at CubicleGM, I did, in fact, get married a few weeks ago. Good times had by all, I believe. And hencetoforth, I enter the state of [...]
50 Days and 50 Nights
And now, an important message from our non-baseball related sponsors…the start of the college football season is just 50 days away – let the countdown begin. While the rest of America was watching the All-Star game last night (yeah, Obama threw out the first pitch – big deal) I was busy celebrating the release of [...]
Mile Markers
The American world of baseball descended upon the Gateway to the West this week. There was carousing and merriment. There were displays of power, of cunning. And in the end, as always, the AL defeated the National League. Bringing us these events employed a small army of analysts, interviewers, and announcers, and yet, it was [...]
All Star Game Rant
I was going to hold back, but after reading Jacob’s post, I shall rant, I must rant: The frequency of the players entering and being substituted for made the game almost impossible to follow. The fact that the innings were so short only exacerbated the problem too. Joe Buck hardly had a chance to introduce [...]
Either the MLB All-Star Game Shouldn’t Count or the Eligibility Rules Need to Change
For the 13th straight year, the American League didn’t lose the All-Star Game. For the fourth straight year, they won it by just one run, defeating the National League by a score of 4-3 and clinching home field advantage in the World Series. With the game tied at 3-3 in the top of the eighth [...]
Assassins to Watch, Bred in the Best City in the South
The NBA’s Summer League got off to its inoncuous start this past week. Not usually terribly fan-friendly for most followers of the League — or at least not a very meaningful exercise in fandom — this year has proven to be no exception, as only 21 of the 30 NBA franchises have actually fielded a [...]
Learning to Pitch and No Hitters Unrelated
It was whilst (my 14th use of whilst) having a few beers Friday night that the MLB Network (or whichever channel the bar was tuned to) broke into the 9th inning of the Giants Padres game. Obviously Jonathon Sanchez would end up completing his Perfect Game, err No Hitter, but as I, and the rest [...]
