In 2007, before Mike Hargrove left the helm, the Seattle Mariners were playing .577 baseball and looking like they were on the verge of making a run at the AL West title. Since then, under the direction of then-bench coach John McLaren, they have fallen all the way down to the cellar in the […]

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This week I’ve been playing around with some pitching stats and this just blew me away: Rockies RHP Aaron Cook has an ERA/WHIP/BAA of 4.26/1.56/.297 on the road… but 2.33/.88/.215 at home! That defies all conventional logic with Coors being on of the biggest hitter-friendly parks in Major League Baseball.
So for Cook, he is […]

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When it comes to sports… especially with the explosion of fantasy sports… player information is huge, and fans want to know what is going on with players’ health. Well, sometimes you get what you ask for…
May 29 3B Carlos Guillen is expected to return to Detroit’s lineup Friday for the start of a weekend […]

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Last June (so almost a year ago) I wrote this post citing numerous similarities between the World Series winning Florida Marlins teams and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and stating the the 2008 team “will win the AL Wild Card and make things interesting“. Since Tampa’s success is a hot topic lately, I thought […]

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Every year in the draft, the experts tout their “sleepers”, who then quickly get taken up four rounds before they were valued at. Well, only problem with that strategery is that even if the guy pans out and produces stats at the level you reached for him at, most likely you still did not […]

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Gotten a few people more than a bit overwhelmed by the differences between the ranks purely done by percentages of stats in the 5 roto categories.  Seems that one thing that people might be forgetting is that every stat counts, so the more balanced someone is over the 5 categories, the better they are going […]

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Fresh off the press, just got finished.
Before I unveil the ranks, let me first tell you how I put them together. Inevitably, someone is going to tell me that I am an idiot. It’s going to happen.
Math Has A Purpose?
Yes, folks, math can be used in the real world…er, well, fantasy world. […]

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[The Elephant Walk is my somewhat regular column on Oakland Athletics baseball. Results, performances, transactions or other thoughts I might have about the A’s]
Can you tell I can’t wait until baseball season?
This time around I’d like to start where I left off. Since last time, the A’s have signed Emil Brown, traded away Mark […]

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Yea, I know. Fantasy baseball drafts are still at least a month away. That, and I have barely posted at all, especially concerning WSU hoops, the A’s, the Sharks etc. Well, all I can say is:

I am taking 19 credits this semester (full time is 12)
I have 4 - count ‘em - […]

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Never, in my entire life, have I ever seen an interview so damning of two individuals than last week’s 60 Minutes interview between Mike Wallace and Roger Clemens… never. It was so putrid, I really don’t know how to describe it… so let me tell you what it wasn’t. It certainly was not […]

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