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FINAL: Red Sox 3, Blue Jays 0

THAT'S ALL (3:51, END 9, 3-0 SOX) Papelbon wrapped it up, allowing only a single to Wells. Scutaro grounded a 93-mph fastball to short, Rios chopped a 93-mph fastball to third, where Lowrie made a...

Week One Answers: The Final Five

The Week One review is complete.  Generally, I was not surprised.  (read: My drafted players performed as expected.)  However, in Week Two, I expect some of Week one's fantasy losers...

THT Fielding Data, 2004-2007

A few weeks ago, we used the fielding stats at The Hardball Times to make a little fielding metric. We looked at the best and worst teams and players of 2008. That's great, but if we really want to...

Book Review: One Ball Knits: Accessories by Fatema, Khadija, and Hajera Habibur-Rahman

A great book for knitters, especially for beginners. Single-skein and "stash busting" projects are quickly becoming a large sub-genre in the realm of knitting books - and with good reason. Every...

So far, hitless for Sox

The Sox are six innings in to this one, and have yet to collect a hit. They haven't come close to a hit. Hiroki Kuroda, the latest Japanese sensation to come over here, went the first four innings...

To Take or Not To Take

I can't imagine that many readers of this site do not have at least some form of addiction to Baseball Reference, a veritable data goldmine for any baseball junkie. I know I sure do. Recently I...

Weighing In

Johan Santana's changeup has been on my mind for the past week. Ever since I learned that if right-handed hitters make contact with the pitch, which doesn't happen very often, they tend to drive it,...

Backnor a victom of "Racism" by ICC?

Though Backnor is a blind and deaf umpire who deserves to be out of scene for now, I recommend him a quality time at Caribbean beach and think of his career and decisions which changed the results of...

BBBD Best Undiscovered Tracks Of 2007 (Part 5 of 5)

I feel as though I sold myself short with my statistical sum-up of the year. It was a little bit too straightforward and was only an indication of what I most frequently listened to over the course...

Phil Franchise thoughts

I decided to stay up real late to catch Phil Franchise's start at Texas. Neil H is currently in Texas but had a work dinner he had to go to, otherwise he had planned to squeeze in the game and had...