Two guys from India who have never played organized baseball before in their lives have been signed by the Pirates. They’re cricket players who apparently can throw a 90 MPH fastball. Rinku and Dinesh are their names. They’ll be at spring training and spend some time in the minors.
Here’s an excerpt from their blog entry [...]
Category Archives: Fandom
Rinku and Dinesh
Friday, November 28, 2008
Mpho Ngoepe
Monday, November 3, 2008
The Pirates have signed a player from South Africa. No South African has ever played a Major League game. So, if he makes it onto the big club, Mpho Ngoepe would be the first.
A Google image search for the guy’s name reveals only one photo of him on the entire Internet.
Gutsy. Do you have Mpho [...]
Not That I Ever Really Loved The Philadelphia Flyers
Saturday, October 11, 2008
But this makes me want them to lose all the time now.
PECOTA
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
You may or may not be aware, but the guy who runs the now super-popular political website fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver, has been a big deal in baseball stat-head circles for a long while. He has a system of making baseball projections called PECOTA, which is short for something very impressive sounding that I forget right [...]
God Bless America
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
At the Pirates game last night, for the first time in seven years that I remember, they did not sing God Bless America at the seventh inning stretch.
I’m glad I don’t have to sit through that cantankerous ditty anymore while the rednecks stare at me, wondering why I’m not standing with my hand over my [...]
Nyjer Morgan
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Pirates lost tonight, but Nyjer Morgan is so cool.
I realize that he’s not a good player, and that he’ll never be a good player. The Pirates fans who talk about Nyjer Morgan as if he’s a prospect are overlooking the fact that he’s twenty-seven years old and has yet to log a full year [...]
