February 25, 2007

On a Mission

Baseball people throughout the years get clumsy when attempting to compare players of today to players of yesterday.  You have two separate camps.  One that takes the oversimplified approach by only comparing stats.  For example, Barry Bonds is a better home run hitter than was Babe Ruth because Bonds hit more home runs than Ruth.  [...]

February 25, 2007

Sammy Who?

Sammy Sosa is back, so they say.
Do you care?  I don’t.  Although, I guess that could be argued since I clearly cared enough to write a post about him.  Quite simply, I hate what Sammy Sosa stands for.  He stands for the era of home run greed.  The players got greedy.  The agents got greedy.  [...]