sam miller appreciation thread

[treebird]

man do i ever love sam miller. do you also love sam miller? if so, talk about how great he is here! if not, read some of these great articles to see why others like him.

 

From 6-4-3 to 1-2-3: Ranking the 17 types of double plays

 

Why a 21-K game is MLB's best record that can actually happen

 

'Skunk in the outfield': How the most epic trick play in history broke baseball

 

in short, he's super interesting, great fun to read and, most of all, he makes me like baseball much more than i would otherwise. consider becoming a big fan of sam miller if you are not already.

[Bertz]

I LOVE Sam Miller.

 

I can't decide if he's the most fun of the analytical writers, or the most analytical of the fun writers, but whatever he is he's awesome.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

man do i ever love sam miller. do you also love sam miller? if so, talk about how great he is here! if not, read some of these great articles to see why others like him.

 

From 6-4-3 to 1-2-3: Ranking the 17 types of double plays

 

Why a 21-K game is MLB's best record that can actually happen

 

'Skunk in the outfield': How the most epic trick play in history broke baseball

 

in short, he's super interesting, great fun to read and, most of all, he makes me like baseball much more than i would otherwise. consider becoming a big fan of sam miller if you are not already.

 

I open up the DP article and what’s the first video that pops up? Damn Chatwood turning a 1-2-3 DP. Not what I wanted to see.

[Bull]

He's great, but wrong. Dead wrong.

 

3-6-1 DP over a 3-6-3 any day of the week. Love to see the pitcher fielding his position and screaming at him when he doesn't get off the mound fast enough.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Sam Miller is my former boss. Well, a Sam Miller. Non-the-less I remain highly suspect of your claims, tree. You don’t know Sam Millers the way I know Sam Millers..

[Bertz]

Nothing will ever top Skunk in the Outfield as the quintessential Sam Miller article, but this is up there. Baseball's 20 Most Unbreakable Records that have a Chance to be Broken in 2019:

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25776160/which-baseball-most-unbreakable-records-actually-get-broken-2019

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Nothing will ever top Skunk in the Outfield as the quintessential Sam Miller article, but this is up there. Baseball's 20 Most Unbreakable Records that have a Chance to be Broken in 2019:

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25776160/which-baseball-most-unbreakable-records-actually-get-broken-2019

 

The incredulity he had for each individual record was really cracking me up.

[Bertz]

Nothing will ever top Skunk in the Outfield as the quintessential Sam Miller article, but this is up there. Baseball's 20 Most Unbreakable Records that have a Chance to be Broken in 2019:

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25776160/which-baseball-most-unbreakable-records-actually-get-broken-2019

 

The incredulity he had for each individual record was really cracking me up.

 

Yeah, a couple items in he goes "What are we even talking about?" and I literally laughed out loud.

[UMFan83]

Nothing will ever top Skunk in the Outfield as the quintessential Sam Miller article, but this is up there. Baseball's 20 Most Unbreakable Records that have a Chance to be Broken in 2019:

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25776160/which-baseball-most-unbreakable-records-actually-get-broken-2019

 

Here's another one partially about our huge FA acquisition this winter being the most clutch player in baseball since 2010 (I'm still reading it I think that's what its getting at)

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25900712/daniel-descalso-outhit-giancarlo-stanton-year

[HawkeTrackler]

Shame on you all for not recognizing his magnum opus, Mark Reynolds is Blind

 

Honorable Mention: One Particular View of Kris Bryant's Home Run

[Bertz]

Just discovered this old one:

 

Where The Pit Would Go If There Was a Pit

 

Why would we have a pit on a baseball field? This might seem like a rhetorical question, because you simply accept that there would be a pit on the baseball field, having grown up in a world where a baseball field is just assumed to be the ideal place to put a theoretical pit. But somewhere at the very beginning, somebody had to decide that it would be cool to put a pit on a baseball field; it wasn’t preordained and it wasn’t an accident. Really! Trust me on this. So why would we have a pit on a baseball field?

 

To answer that, we must first ask: Why do we fall in love? Is love, ultimately, a selfless act, a severing of the self to create meaningful connection for another? Do we fall in love to serve our own needs, or do we fall in love because, in the end, our only contribution to this shared existence is what we add to another person’s life?

[biittner77]

Just discovered this old one:

 

Where The Pit Would Go If There Was a Pit

 

Why would we have a pit on a baseball field? This might seem like a rhetorical question, because you simply accept that there would be a pit on the baseball field, having grown up in a world where a baseball field is just assumed to be the ideal place to put a theoretical pit. But somewhere at the very beginning, somebody had to decide that it would be cool to put a pit on a baseball field; it wasn’t preordained and it wasn’t an accident. Really! Trust me on this. So why would we have a pit on a baseball field?

 

To answer that, we must first ask: Why do we fall in love? Is love, ultimately, a selfless act, a severing of the self to create meaningful connection for another? Do we fall in love to serve our own needs, or do we fall in love because, in the end, our only contribution to this shared existence is what we add to another person’s life?

 

All of these are wrong. The place to put the pit would be short right field so that when teams shift the fielder that gets shifted there has to either start out in the pit or play in front of or in back of the pit.

 

The only other possibility would be to replace the warning track with a pit. It could even be a moat.

[Bertz]

 

This horsefeathering sucks. Though I think he's generally the "your favorite sports writer's favorite sports writer" type so he'll have a job at the Ringer or something by the end of the year.

[Bertz]

 

!!!!!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Sam Miller is outstanding, I just found out he's back to writing on Twitter. Very much excite.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

wtf, I thought Tree was back

[Brock Beauchamp]

Listening to Miller make an appearance on Effectively Wild reminds me how much more I enjoyed the show when he was on every other episode. No offense to Ben or Meg, they're also really good, but Sam's absurdist approach to baseball is more my speed.