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pitchersandpoets.com - 10 hours ago
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Nerdiness and baseball are frequent bedfellows. Bloggers in
their mother’s basements, Steve Bartman, Excel spreadsheets, hyper-focused statistical
analysis, George Will…the list really does go on and on. Another bastion of the super nerdy, a practice so odd and pointless that it ...
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Explorations in Baseball Nerdiness
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pitchersandpoets.com - 5 days ago
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Right now, the MLB is slowly, slowly revealing
the names of the 2009 award winners. The results
trickle out to the media like grains of sand through a poorly maintained hourglass, presumably extending the shelf-life of the now-finished season to grab a few brain cells away from Lebron James ...
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An Argument for the Current MLB Awards Schedule, with ...
pitchersandpoets.com - 11 days ago
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I don’t normally just post random stuff here,
but this is more than worth it. It’s a
rendering of the famed Dock Ellis LSD-no hitter, with narration by Dock himself. The killer animation is by James Blagden . Thanks to RBI artist Mark Penxa for passing this along:
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Ellis, D. Watch This Right Now.
pitchersandpoets.com - 14 days ago
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A few weeks ago, we asked readers to
answer some silly postseason/Halloween themed questions. Their answers are
pretty fun to read now that the postseason has ended and Halloween is long gone. Our favorite responses are below: 1. The 2009 Playoff Yankees: same old overpriced trick, or ...
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PnP Postseason Quiz Greatest Hits
pitchersandpoets.com - 18 days ago
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I. I had the chance to wander around
outside of Yankee Stadium for an hour or so
before Game Six. I’ll use clichés to describe the atmosphere: you could cut the tension with a knife, the air was electric (the crowd was buzzing), hearts were aflutter, and a lot of people were drunk. II. ...
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Five Things
pitchersandpoets.com - 18 days ago
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I. I had the chance to wander around
outside of Yankee Stadium for an hour or so
before Game Six. I’ll use clichés to describe the atmosphere: you could cut the tension with a knife, the air was electric (the crowd was buzzing), hearts were aflutter, and a lot of people were drunk. II. ...
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Five Things:
pitchersandpoets.com - 20 days ago
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In order to help you through these frozen
hours before the World Series does or doesn’t end
tomorrow, we bring you some rare weekday reading. And this awesome John Wayne clip from The Longest Day that I hope both managers are showing their teams. “We came here to take something. ...
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Offday Reading: The Longest Day
pitchersandpoets.com - 21 days ago
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Ted: The best part about making predictions is
praising the ones you got right and pretending the
ones you got wrong never existed. That said, what hasn’t surprised you about the World Series so far? Eric: You mean besides the fact that the Yankees are up 3-1? What hasn’t ...
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PnP Conversations: Of Men and Supermen
pitchersandpoets.com - 24 days ago
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The first two World Series games have featured
some fantastic starting pitching. Perplexing pitching, in which in
one notable case the Great Baseball Equation–on one side the input of the pitcher and on the other the output of the hitter–doesn’t seem to the naked eye to ...
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Obvious and Mysterious: An Intuitive Taxonomy of ...
pitchersandpoets.com - 26 days ago
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Here at Pitchers and Poets, we make little
claim to insider baseball knowledge, tireless analysis, or sabermetric
wizardry. As such, we’re about as qualified to break down a series as we are to fix the hitch in Alfonso Soriano’s swing or repair the windshield wipers on your Saab. ...
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PnP’s Ill-Advised Prognistications: 2009 World Series ...
pitchersandpoets.com - 29 days ago
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Rooting for the bad guy always sounds so
good in theory; there is a sexy excitement to
the whole thing, a contrarian pride, and a Clint Eastwood danger. But in practice, it never works. At the movies, you find yourself unable to shake the momentum of the action, somehow hinged to the values of ...
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Frickin’ A-Rod or: How I Learned to Stop Wallowing and ...
pitchersandpoets.com - 10/22/2009
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Ted: You okay, buddy? Clearly this year’s playoffs
have spurred in you a Van Gogh-esque creativity, as
evidenced by Fernando’s Tears in the header image (Fernando’s Tears is a great name for a blog about dejected playoff exitees). Eric: I”m okay, actually. The ...
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PnP Conversations: Of Men and Robots
pitchersandpoets.com - 10/20/2009
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Eric: So talk me down a little bit.
Last night was very nearly a sit in your
bedroom in the dark drinking a twelve pack and listening to the same Wilco record for six hours type of night. Somehow, I pulled through. Lean On Me came over the radio in the car as I drove home from the bar. ...
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PnP Conversations: Horse-Hopping and Lid Popping
pitchersandpoets.com - 10/19/2009
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In Robert Graves’ fictional memoir of the bumbling
Roman emperor’s assent to power, I Claudius, the title
character finds himself in a library with two of his era’s most prominent historians. Just a teenager at the time, Claudius gets into an awkward situation. The two rival historians, Pollio ...
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PnP Book Review: Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the ...
pitchersandpoets.com - 10/15/2009
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Ted: So, Eric, what’s the most compelling storyline
for you going into the next round of the
playoffs? The impact of Nick A.? The charisma of Andre E.? The Yankees and their undeniable goodness? It’s down to four of the most competent teams in the league now. What jumps out at ...
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PnP Conversations: The Balanced Equation and Variables
