dusty baker Stories - Beyond the Box Score
Braves Stats of the Day: The Greatness of Bobby Cox
I figured I'd get Bobby Cox Weekend started off a little early with some fun comparisons between Bobby and his most successful contemporaries. Below, I look at the six active managers other than Bobby (counting Lou Piniella as "active") with at least 1,000 wins, and see what they'd have to do to...
Today in Sports History: October 24th
(Snow leads Baker to the dugout. Photo by Brian Bahr, Getty Images) 10/24/1985 - Spurs trade Gervin to Bulls The San Antonio Spurs trade George Gervin to the Chicago Bulls for Dave Greenwood. Gervin had led the league in scoring four times and would later be named one of the 50 greatest players...
Blogger Smackdown: Joel Luckhaupt Of Red Reporter
A few weeks ago I might've been carrying on in this space about how the Mets need to beat up on second-division teams like the Reds if they are to stand any chance of winning their division. Now, the Mets are looking like an also-ran while the Reds head into the last series before the All-Star...
Red Reposter - 5/5/09
The big news from last night's marathon game is that Alex Gonzalez is likely headed to the DL. Strained obliques are strange injuries, and it could be 2 weeks or 2 months before he's ready to go again. Gonzo is heading back to Cincy today to see Doc Kremchek, so maybe we'll know more this...
All Your Base Are Clogged With Cubs: Cubs 7, Reds 2
One of the things that used to drive us most crazy about Dusty Baker's tenure as Cubs manager was his attitude toward the "innocent" (as he once put it during an ESPN broadcast he was commenting on) base on balls. While he'd have his hitters hacking away, he'd also have his pitchers nibble...
Wednesday's Frosty Mug
Some things to read while acknowledging that the world would be better off without some people. Another sigh of relief is in order this morning, as X-rays on Ryan Braun's thumb came back negative. Braun lost a fly ball in the lights in last night's 6-4 loss to the Padres and, as a baseball tends...
Know Your Enemy: Cincinnati Reds
Every year, the so-called experts anoint a team as the sexy "surprise" pick to contend, or make the playoffs. Now, ask yourself this, from a March 2009 standpoint: do you even remember who that "sexy" pick was a year ago? And second, how many of those experts were, a year ago, picking the Tampa...
We Have A Graphs Contest Winner
Congratulations to VictorW, who created the winning entry for our graphs contest. He'll receive a copy of The Hardball Times 2009 Annual, chocked full of forty articles from excellent authors (including Rob Neyer, Joe Posnanski, John Dewan to name just a few.) His winning flowchart walks us...
The Cub Can Of Worms: Dusty Baker
This one could open some old wounds, so I'll be fairly brief. Most of you know I defended Dusty Baker far beyond the point at which it was reasonable to do so. I was wrong. Period. In reality, Baker should have been fired after the 2004 season, when he lost control of the team. The antics that...
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