In the course of a 162-game season, there are nights remembered for dynamic individual performance (three home runs, a no-hitter, etc.) and remarkable team efforts (a miraculous a late-inning comeback). These are the nights that we reflect upon for years, reminiscing about the feats that played out before us, and hanging to these brilliant moments that […]
Day: July 26, 2016
Transaction Analysis: What Should We Make of Aroldis Chapman?
The following transaction analysis, written in part by BP Wrigleyville’s Editor-in-Chief Rian Watt, first appeared, in whole, over at the main site. We trust you’ll enjoy reading a portion of it here. “How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?” — Historian James MacGregor Burns, on Richard Nixon Aroldis […]
Hammer Time’s Not So Bad
Watching major sporting events with my wife is great fun. Whether it’s the Super Bowl or the World Series, it always ends the same way. When the cameras inevitably pan to the losers, she gets visibly upset and says something like, “Awww, poor guys. That’s so sad that they had to lose.” And then I […]
Game 98 Recap: White Sox 5 Cubs 4
The White Sox walked it off in this heartbreaker, but it wasn’t all bad news for the North Siders. Top Play (WPA): As close as this game was until the very end, the Cubs never once held a lead. Their most valuable play, naturally, was that which afforded them a tantalizing tie in the ninth. And where […]