Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
To Vilify or not to Vilify Ryan Braun
"I'm not saying that Braun should be vilified, but why isn't he being vilified as Rafael Palmiero, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez were and still are."
Baseballism
Baseballism
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Welcome to Club PED, Ryan Braun
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun, the National League’s MVP in 2011, faces a 50-game suspension after reportedly testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone during the playoffs, according to Mark Fainaru-Wada and T.J. Quinn of ESPN.
Braun, of course, will be disputing the result through arbitration. However, no baseball player in world history has ever had this matter overturned.
Ryan Braun also plays left field. He played college baseball at the University of Miami, currently embroiled in a major ongoing NCAA football scandal.
As much as we don't want to say this (we must): flip the MVP to Matt Kemp of the Dodgers.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Federal Prosecutors Recommend Prison for Barry Bonds
In court documents filed, United States prosecutors have asked Judge Susan Illston to send former baseball slugger Barry Bonds to prison. Sentenced to 15 months in prison, to be exact.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Barry Bonds: Give Me Probation, Please
Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's career home-run record holder convicted of obstructing a U.S. probe of steroid use, asked the federal judge on the case to sentence him to probation and not prison.
Lawyers for the former San Francisco Giants left fielder said in a court filing this week that Barry Bonds' "history of good works" and other factors justify a sentence of probation.
Barry Lamar Bonds is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 16.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Sabean and Bochy get contracts extended thru 2013
obsessivegiantscompulsive: Sabean and Bochy get contracts extended thru 2013
I was disappointed by Haft's dig at both Sabean and Bochy when he noted that others have done more than either over their tenure than they have. First, sure, there are those who have done more, but that ignores the cycles that Baer talked about in the press conference when praising the two of them. You have to accept that there will be times when a team is losing and rebuilding. It also ignores that Bochy was handicapped by the Padres poor payroll problems that regularly rolled around and decimate the good team he had, then was hurt by the Giants rebuilding period at the tail end of the Barry Bonds era, where the teams weren't good enough to win yet. Every team has a life-cycle of rebuild/compete/repeat that has to play out, nobody is going to be a winner all the time, that is rarely done in the majors, if ever.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Barry Bonds and his amazing WAR
| Name | Pos | WAR/162 | WAE | WAM | wWPA | wWAR/norm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonds, Barry | lf | 175.2 | 108.5 | 55.2 | 2.3 | 341.2 |
see BeyondTheBoxScore
WAR is wins above replacement
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
The Flagrant Fan: Barry Bonds Still Causes Us Heartburn
The Flagrant Fan: Barry Bonds Still Causes Us Heartburn: The next baseball season will put us five years removed from the last season that Barry Bonds played in the majors. And yet, more than any o...
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