I don’t court controversy. I don’t even flirt with it when I see it at the bar. Controversy is single for a reason, and bad news for anyone trying to build a positive reputation as an analyst in baseball or any other field. And yet, despite all my safeguards and precautions, controversy found me at Wrigley […]
Day: October 29, 2015
When the Game Gives
As the season that read like a storybook wound down one well-executed Metropolitan pitch at a time, measures of an emotion I never expected to experience bubbled to the surface: guilt. Guilt borne because the deciding game of the most important series in 12 years had lulled me to sleep as the eighth inning began. As […]
Cubs Player Profile: Jon Lester
2015 Stats 205.0 IP, 3.34 ERA, 3.89 DRA, 25.0% K%, 5.7 BB% Year in Review On the morning of May 6th, the Chicago Cubs were not reeling, but they were in a funk. They were losers of four consecutive games, including the first two of a four-game set in St. Louis. It was just the first […]