Archive for April, 2008
The 3-0 Pujols Strikeout
21 April 2008How many of you have watched a game in which a player hit for the cycle? My guess is that if you have, you remember who did it, when it was, and who it was against. Why? Because it’s a baseball rarity! Since 2001, a player has hit for the cycle only 28 times in […]
Country Fastball
13 April 2008Aaron Rowand is Country Fastball’s guest tonight.
Sunk Costs
10 April 2008I knew business school would come in handy someday. Let’s talk Finance!
One of my favorite professors spoke often about sunk costs, a concept with which I was familiar, but never really comprehended. As defined by Econterm:
“Sunk costs are unrecoverable past expenditures. These should not normally be taken into account when determining whether to […]
… they’re realizing what we knew
8 April 2008The Giants are bad. Really, really bad.
It seems more and more people are realizing how historically awful this team is:
* Tim Kawakami of the Merc recognizes how hopeless San Francisco looks.
* Rob Neyer has these adjectives for the Giants: “Bad, abominable, atrocious, awful, crappy, crummy, deficient, dreadful, god-awful, gross, inferior, lousy, stinking, substandard and […]
Miller Park… and Friday links
4 April 2008I’ll get my first look at Miller Park as I travel to see the Giants play the Brewers in Milwaukee tomorrow. I’m both excited, and a little bit sad. I’ll always enjoy heading out to a game, but the season thus far has been exactly as predicted: very little offense, decent […]
a quote from rob neyer
1 April 2008“Seriously, is there ANY way to defend Sabean’s performance? I don’t mean to be snarky; I really want to know. They’ve finished well below .500 in each of the last three seasons, and seem primed for another such season this year. How many years like this does Sabean get? I’m just asking.”