Video - Jonathan Papelbon teachs craps to Hideki Okajima

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High Rollers
Published 5/12/2008 by Texas Gal at Center Field
Batting practice may look like a time for warming up, doing some fielding drills and chatting up random cute girls in the stands -- but Jonathan Papelbon uses the BP time to educate Hideki Okajima on the finer points of gambling. During the Red Sox recent trip to Detroit, eagle-eyed commenter joyosity spotted Papelbon drawing something in the warning track dirt while gesturing and excitedly talking to Okajima and his translater. On closer inspection, she discovered Papelbon's artwork was really a giant replica of a craps table -- and Okajima was learning the art of ...

Jonathan Papelbon Wants You to Blow on His Dice
Published 5/13/2008 by slanch at The Slanch Report
Last week in Detroit, the Red Sox were riding high, they pummeled the Tiger’s pitching, the Sox’ pitching made it impossible for the Tigers to get anything going and right next to the stadium are a couple of casinos for funtimes after the game. In order to foster some fellow gamblers, Jonathan ...

Ah, The Cultural Rewards Of Major League Baseball [Reliable And Floating Crap Games]
Published 5/13/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
The life of a Japanese player, when assimilated into a Major League Baseball clubhouse, can be difficult. You have to learn parts of other languages, deal with cultural differences you hadn't anticipated and, mostly, deal with the odd duck that is Jonathan Papelbon. When the Red Sox were in Detroit recently, a fan spotted Papelbon explaining the rules of craps to Hideki Okajima. The site, Out In Center Field, has a closeup of the complete board Papelbon draws out for Okajima and his translator, and even a video. We always forget how rough life must be for a baseball player's ...

Papelbon Teaches Okajima How to Play Craps
Published 5/13/2008 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
Filed under: Boston, Red Sox, AL East, MLB Gambling, MLB Video That's Jonathan Papelbon teaching Hideki Okajima how to play craps, complete with a makeshift craps table drawn in the dirt, courtesy of Texas Girl from Center Field. (The "table" is a little hard to see from the video, but if you can see some up close pictures if you click through.) It's worth mentioning that Comerica Park is a stone's throw from three downtown Detroit casinos, not to mention another one across the river in Windsor -- I'm guessing Boston's bullpen took a little field trip ...

Friday Video Blowout
Published 5/16/2008 by Simon (noreply@blogger.com) at SimonOnSports
Everyone needs something to keep them occupied on Friday afternoons so the Friday Video Blowout was born. Spend your next few minutes, laughing, crying of laughter, pissing your self, whatever, but mostly wasting your companies time. ...

No, Andruw will not hit .360-something after the break
Published 6/2/2008 at Roto Arcade
Earlier this season we mentioned "the gambler's fallacy", which is basically the notion that chance events* are influenced by prior results. They aren't. But there were a few dissenting opinions in the comments. This is not just some fool idea we came up with, however. (We have lots of those, but the gambler's fallacy isn't one of them). Credible people have been writing about it for years. Last week over at The Hardball Times, Derek Carty wrote an excellent piece discussing what he called "The myth of the 'law of averages'": In fantasy baseball terms, let's say that ...