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DrJohnEvans has posted 67 links and 1294 comments to SportsFilter and 138 links and 960 comments to the Locker Room.
TIM: Fifth inning, Johnny Gomes at the dish. Now he's a model, if you know what I mean, 'cause he does his little thing on the catwalk.
SID: On the catwalk?
TIM: On the catwalk, yeah.
SID: He does his little thing on the catwalk?
TIM: That's correct.
The 5th Annual chicobangs Memorial SpoFi CFL Pick ’Em: is here and in fine form. The pigs have been skinned, the preseason has been played, and the first crop of MCL injuries has come and gone. Be a part of this grand tradition and make your picks inside.
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 12:23 PM on June 25 - 23 comments
WBC Confidence Pool Final Standings: Japan needs extra innings to beat Korea in one of the best ballgames I've ever seen. Closer to home, boredom_08 takes the prize with four points to spare. Congratulations are due both to him and to Folkways, who comes away with SportsFilter's very first double Costanza.
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 01:47 AM on March 24 - 4 comments
Because we're all suckers for athlete bloggers: Leon Boyd, the closer for the Netherlands in the '09 WBC, and recently signed to a minor league deal with the Blue Jays, has a blog. Worth it alone for the account of his save against the Dominican Republic.
posted by DrJohnEvans to culture at 11:00 PM on March 18 - 2 comments
The Classic is back.: That's right, the World Baseball Classic has returned, and with it comes a brand-new WBC Confidence Pool. Step right up and rank your teams... oh, and can someone get ahold of Baseball Prospectus? I haven't seen him around lately.
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 11:24 AM on March 02 - 36 comments
Corey Koskie’s clear head: In light of recent discussions here and elsewhere which have shown us just how little we know about the effects of concussion, Gordon Edes writes an account of Corey Koskie's recovery process: a small step towards a proper diagnostic and treatment process for head injuries.
posted by DrJohnEvans to baseball at 11:02 AM on February 25 - 3 comments
Hamilton by 6 Montreal by 14 Edmonton by 9 Saskatchewan by 7
posted by DrJohnEvans at 06:11 PM on July 01
Very good, very good. I'm off to do a spot of research before committing any picks.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:57 AM on June 26
THE PICK 'EM - What we do
Faced with long days of summer idleness, we're left with no other choice but to spend our time picking the winners in the week-to-week action of the world's best pointy-endedball summer sport.
THE SEASON - When we do it
The season kicks off this Wednesday night and runs for 19 weeks through the summer. There are generally four games per week, running from Thursday to Sunday. If you're in Canada, you'll find the games on TSN. If you're in the States, there's a fairly decent U.S. Broadcast Schedule across local networks. And if that's not enough for you, there will be live pay-per-view webcasts of all games available.
THE RULES - How we do it
Here's how she works. You pick who you think will win, and by how much. You then get points based on the result:
What's the Margin of Error?
It's a window around the spread that's defined as
spread - round(0.3 * spread) <= Margin of Error <= spread + round(0.3 * spread)
So you can get rewarded for being close to the spread even if you're not spot-on. The bigger the spread, the bigger the margin of error, so you don't have to be as accurate when predicting a blowout as you would when predicting a close game. Here are some examples:
| Actual Spread | Margin Starts at | Margin Ends at |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | 5 | 9 |
| 11 | 8 | 14 |
| 20 | 14 | 26 |
So if you picked Toronto by 15, here's how you'd fare given certain outcomes:
Outcome | Your score |
| Toronto by 20 | 2 points (winner + spread within MoE) |
| Toronto by 10 | 1 point (winner only) |
| Toronto by 15 | 3 points (winner + nailed spread) |
| Hamilton by 15 | 1 point (nailed spread only) |
| Hamilton by 43 | 0 points (and deservedly so) |
Any questions?
THE GAMES, WEEK ONE - Where we start
In lieu of attempting to sum up each team's status in a single sentence, for this opening week I'm just linking to season preview pages for each of 'em. If that's not enough, RSN also has at-a-glance previews for the East Division and West Division. All times are EDT.
Toronto Argonauts @ Hamilton Tiger-Cats - Wednesday, July 1, 7:00pm
Montreal Alouettes @ Calgary Stampeders - Wednesday, July 1, 10:00pm
Winnipeg Blue Bombers @ Edmonton Eskimos - Thursday, July 2, 9:00pm
B.C. Lions @ Saskatchewn Roughriders - Friday, July 3, 9:00pm
Good luck!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:23 PM on June 25
In this game of baseball, there is the Pure, there is the Dirty, and then there is the Rogers Centre.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 06:12 PM on June 24
She's booting up as we speak! Look for a post in the Locker Room next week.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:05 AM on June 17
Oooh, that's a good idea. Every home run hit should count as an out against the other team. That would keep most Yankee home games under 4 hours.
Sorry, what were we talking about again?
posted by DrJohnEvans at 06:21 PM on June 02
It's easy to play error-free ball when all the balls end up in the stands.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:59 PM on June 02
You may be right: Balsillie might be able to tie the moving of the franchise to the resolution of the bankruptcy, in which case he'd be circumventing the BoG. I still have to read up on those details, so I'm not going to insist I'm right on this point.
But I still don't think that any sort of general precedent is going to be set here. There are too many details involved which are very specific to the Coyotes' lease arrangement. What other failing franchises are tied to unreasonable venue leases which can be broken only in case of bankruptcy, with a league commissioner who has staked his reputation on that particular franchise being viable in that city?
Even if Balsillie ends up in Hamilton/Waterloo/Chatham next September, that doesn't mean that half of the continent's sports teams are going to declare bankruptcy so they can be sold. That just doesn't make sense.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 02:40 PM on May 07
jags, Weedy, I think you're slightly off on a key point here. Balsillie isn't trying to circumvent the Board of Governors for the entire process of buying and moving the team-- just the immediate bankruptcy entanglement aspect.
The bankruptcy declaration is the key thing. The Coyotes can't get out of their iron-clad lease without declaring bankruptcy. So it's in Balsillie's interest that they do, and in Gary Bettman's interest that they don't.
For the past few weeks, before the Coyotes declared bankruptcy, there were reports of the team receiving cash infusions from the league and, in effect, being operated by the NHL. Given that, what Gary Bettman is challenging is the team's right and ability to declare bankruptcy. In other words, Bettman feels that Jerry Moyes already threw the keys on the table and walked away, and thus already forfeited his privilege to declare bankruptcy and/or sell the team.
That's why it's a good thing that this is going into bankruptcy court. It keeps the proceedings of the Coyotes business on the public record. The alternative would be for Bettman to disappear into his office to conduct an "investigation", coming out an hour later and concluding that the Phoenix Coyotes are perfectly financially viable and are in no position to declare bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the league keeps bleeding cash into propping up the franchise, until another sucker buyer can be found—a buyer who will be paying significantly less than Balsillie, thus short-changing yet another subscriber to Bettman's sun belt dream.
If the court permits the bankruptcy, then the transfer of the team to Balsille and subsequent team move would certainly go before the Board of Governors. It's just the current bankruptcy situation which needs court resolution.
So this doesn't set any sort of precedent for the regular sale and moving of sports franchises, unless of course you can think of another league besides the NHL which would get itself into this sort of mess.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 11:42 AM on May 07
Actually, it seems like the rule is pretty fairly written:
Offensive team personnel, other than base coaches and runner(s), shall not touch a batter or base runner(s) who is legally running the bases on a dead-ball award until the player(s) contacts home plate. For a first offense, the umpire shall issue a warning to the offending team.
The problem here is that the rule was incorrectly applied. A warning should've been given (assuming it was indeed the team's first offence that game).
posted by DrJohnEvans at 01:00 AM on May 06
Yes, the Snow Bunnies. They play out of Kennewick, WA.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:56 PM on April 30
Thanks, BoKnows.
I have absolutely no allegiances in these playoffs, so here's hoping for something young and exciting in the inevitable Chicago-Washington final.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 08:56 AM on April 29
New Comment Count When?
Snazzy!