Baseball was introduced to Japan in the 19th Century and they've had organized play for about 95 years. Baseball was introduced to Cuba in the 19th Century and they've had organized play for almost 140 years. Baseball was introduced to the DR at the tail end of the 19th Century and they've had organized play for over 100 years. But yeah, the game has only "opened up in the last 10-15 years." Bud Norris can go [expletive] himself.
Outrage, shmoutrage; Rose impressively outpaced everyone else as the most unlikable Chicago pro sports star years ago. It's basically just scoreboard watching when it comes to him saying or doing something dumb at this point.
Well, there's endearingly dumb and then there's "holy [expletive], this guy would be the creep mumbling weird, scary things on the L at 1 AM ." Actually, he also comes across as pretty robotic, so I see what's going on here.
he of the .348 OBP (and .500 SLG)? if you want to get your UMFan on, his september numbers look bad until you realize his K rate is down, BB rate is up, OBP is still .324 despite a .179 avg on a .176 BABIP (good for a 105 wRC+) Man I had not realized his babip was so bad. Good lord. What doesn't help is the one-two punch of Schwarber being shackled by the BABIP gods at the same time that Dexter is back into another stankin' ass phase of the moon this month.
i'd say he's right more often than most and he has a lot of knowledge of baseball and the things he's talking about even if he doesn't know stuff like what hand mike minor throws with or which one is paul blackburn and which is duane underwood. Mojo would kindly request you stop making people up. I seriously thought David somehow fucked up the phrase "what hand makes minor throws" because even something that nonsensical makes more sense than someone named Mike Minor existing. Seeing as his three decent years were while the Cubs were in the wastes and that he plays for the [expletive] Braves, I stand by it.