By Chris Glover The number of different ways to enjoy a game of baseball seems to increase by the day as social media adds a layer of interactivity and new live-data allows fans to better understand the story playing out on the field. One of my favourite things to follow during a game are FanGraphs’  [ Read More ]

Several weeks ago, the fellas over at The Platoon Advantage, decided to embark on a pretty cool project.  They expanded Major League Baseball to create the Brooklyn Hipsters and Portland Webfoots.  This not only ended all talk of Rays’ relocation (anyone sick of that conversation?) but it also moved the Rays into the new AL  [ Read More ]

I emailed Steve Berthiaume last Thursday and asked if he would mind doing a quick Q-and-A after my response to his piece on relocation generated such vigorous debate in the comments section. Steve agreed and the Questions and Answers are below.  I kept it to 4 questions for two reasons.  First, these questions are based  [ Read More ]

When I woke up this morning and checked my Twitter feed, I was snowed under with 140-character responses to this piece Steve Berthiaume wrote for the Sweet Spot blog last night.  I have promised over-and-over that this space will be reserved for baseball, not business, but I feel compelled to at least respond to Steve.  [ Read More ]

In my effort to quote Crash Davis once a week, I was thinking about his adroit analysis of the game this morning while pondering Jeff Niemann’s return from the DL: “Well F— this F—-ing game.  I quit.” Every time I get my arms around this game, it moves. Here’s what I knew at 6:30 p.m.  [ Read More ]

I am at the beach this week with my wife’s family and, last night we engaged in a rousing game of Balderdash.  Balderdash is a game where players create fake definitions or biographies for obscure words or people and then try to guess which definitions are fake and which are real. Apparently, I am terrible  [ Read More ]

By Brendan Gleason Mark, you unfair, Lance Armstrong loving, Derek Jeter “homerun” grabbing, Tuck Rule agreeing cheater. Some instant replay isn’t good enough. There needs to be more. There needs to be most. Whatever it takes to get the call correct. AJ Pierzynski’s trot to first base after striking out against the Angels in the  [ Read More ]

Brendan, you Big Brother loving, newspeak talking, class of 1984 fascist.  What is this, Minority Report? You want to entrust our national pastime to some anonymous overlords watching the game in a booth somewhere?  This is America.  What would John Hancock say about such a concentration of power?  This is exactly the kind of thing  [ Read More ]

Justin Ruggiano’s run that wasn’t in Detroit has brought the issue of instant replay in Major League Baseball back into our collective consciousness. We kicked around the idea of debating whether or not baseball needs expanded review.  But neither Brendan nor I wanted to argue against that proposition.  So, this week’s Point-Counterpoint offers two competing  [ Read More ]

[this is Brendan's counterpoint from last Friday.  We had some technical issues getting it published.  Sorry.] By Brendan Gleason Mark, you sesame street watching, “we are the world” singing, triple ply with aloe softee.  Villains are a cornerstone of baseball. Some of the best players in history have been villains. Barry Bonds. Ty Cobb(at least  [ Read More ]