June 2010

  1. Top 100 Sports Books

    Over the weekend, Joe Posnanski was inspired by this , and wrote this , where he mentions that he will be putting together his list for top 100 sports books. Asking for reader nominations, here are the rules... 1. All…

  2. 2010 MLB Power Poll

    About half the season is over, and although we very recently revisited our predictions, we have not given much thought to who's better and who's best, regardless of which division they're in. The Andy Pratt Bunch 30.…

  3. Midweek Players of the Week

    Before we get to the usual seamhead talk, can we take a minute to discuss the World Cup? I love this event. The first World Cup I remember was the summer after the Bears won the Super Bowl: 1996. When I was a kid, the…

  4. Colonel Mustard Strikes Again!

    We use our Preseason Predictions as the standard to review at the end of the year. Still, we like to take another look at what our crystal ball would forecast from different times during this season. Let's take the…

  5. What's Up with Yonder Alonso?

    When we were in High School, a couple of my buddies and I would call local (Chicago) and National sports talk radio programs and assume the personalities of many, many characters. We were sort of like the "sports jerky…

  6. Unlikely All-Stars

    I went to the Yankees game on Memorial Day, which was the first time this season I got an All-Star ballot . As usual, I rode the fence between the players with the best performances and my favorite players. Let's take a…

  7. Another Natural: Carlos Santana

    Just a quick note this evening... Doesn't Carlos Santana "look" like a good hitter? I'm not talking about the gaudy minor league stats , his minor league MVP awards (plural), nor his successful start in his first three…

  8. Hanging with the Silver Hawks

    When I was about 15 or 16 years old, I went to South Bend, Indiana to attend a week-long baseball camp at the University of Notre Dame. This was when Pat Murphy was coaching the Irish. Murphy would leave Notre Dame the…

  9. Irasshaimase, Jose Tabata

    This week may be remembered as the time the Blackhawks won their 4th Stanley Cup AND one of the great weeks of Major League debuts in history. We already celebrated everyone's All-American, Stephen Strasburg , demolish…

  10. JoPo's Strasburg Live Blog

    Blog favorite, Joe Posnanski, is doing a live blog for Stephen Strasburg's debut. We were thinking of doing the same but are more than happy to sit back, relax, and enjoy Poz's thoughts on the inning-by-inning action.…

  11. Best Picks by Decade: Cubs

    This past Friday, I was inspired by Zachary Levine of the Houston Chronicle who highlighted the top draft picks by the Astros, by decade. In his piece , he lists Cliff Johnson (1960s), Greg Gross (1970s), Brian Hunter…

  12. Public Enemy: Jim Joyce

    As Joe Posnanski eloquently alluded to after Roy Halladay's perfect game on Saturday , perfect games and near-perfect games are all the rage. Tiger fans should be celebrating the franchise's first ever perfect game…

  13. Intriguing Trade Chips

    In light of today's two trades, Dontrelle to the D'Backs and Dana Eveland to Pittsburgh , we thought it would be fun to look at two intriguing trade chips in each division that we believe are flying a bit under the…

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