Ramblings of a cranky sports fan
This year’s World Series may be history making if the Nats can win Game 7. No visiting team has EVER won every game of a World Series. If Washington SP Max Scherzer can pitch up to his usual standard tonight, another very long World Championship drought will be over (the franchise dates back to 1969 […]
Well tonight is Game 5 of the 2019 World Series and we are all tied at 2. Every game so far has been won by the visiting team. That has not happened since 1996. Hopefully the Nationals will put a stop to that tonight. Should be quite the show with the President attending the game. […]
Photo by Charles 🇵🇭 on Unsplash It is getting very tiresome to see writers saying that modern pitchers are better in the postseason than pitchers from baseball’s past. You can NOT compare the two. Until 1969, there was only the World Series. No wildcard games, no division series and no league championship series. Pitchers got two, sometimes three […]
Look at the following list of NASCAR Cup Series tracks. 10 Cup Races are run on these tracks. TRACK LENGTH SHAPE LOCATION Charlotte Motor Speedway 1.500 Quad-Oval Concord, North Carolina Chicagoland Speedway 1.500 D-Shaped Oval Joliet, Illinois Homestead-Miami Speedway 1.500 Oval Homestead, Florida Kansas Speedway 1.500 Tri-Oval Kansas City, Kansas Kentucky Speedway 1.500 D-shaped oval […]
I was a fan of this franchise back when it was the Montreal Expos. It feels good to see the team reach the World Series in its 50th year of operation. And extra sweet to see them do it without Bryce Harper. I don’t think they have much chance of winning the World Series, but […]
It will be a great day when Justin Verlander receives his 2019 Cy Young Award. I can hear the sabermetric “experts” crying now. The man may be the last 20 game winner for a long time. You don’t need to look any farther than the sub 3 ERA, 21 wins, 300 strikeouts and first in […]
Has anyone made any fuss about Nick Castellanos hitting 58 doubles in 2019? That is the 10th most doubles in one season in MLB EVER!!! The media is so in love with advanced metrics they are missing a really historic event. This man is a doubles machine! Tried and true stats like doubles (and total […]
Today I want to talk a little about a sport that was on top of the world just a few years ago but now seems to have fallen on hard times. NASCAR was a sport centered in the US Southeast which featured larger than life drivers and fierce competition. Who could ever forget Dale Earnhart […]
The more I read about the methods used to calculate WAR (Wins Above Replacement), the more I shake my head. Even the sites that explain it admit that the calculation is very subjective (which means suspicious). I imagine the people who come up with calculation sit in front of a spreadsheet on their computer and […]
Today I want to vent about MLB’s replay. The sports media pushed long and hard for this. And as soon as it was implemented, they moaned long and hard about its faults. The simple answer to that is that replay was NOT needed and should never have come to pass. I very rarely heard any […]