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Jugwine has posted 10 links and 168 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 25 comments to the Locker Room.
An Oral History of Fire Joe Morgan: The three authors of late, lamented sports blog Fire Joe Morgan share how FJM came to be, a behind the scenes look at their heyday and why they chose to call it quits in 2008. Part 2, Part 3.
(FJM previously on sportsfilter)
posted by Jugwine to baseball at 01:45 PM on December 20, 2012 - 1 comment
The Toughest Things to do in Sports.: The list is less generic than the one discussed previously here, but also more US-centric (and it takes itself less seriously). So, what was left out and what doesn't belong?
posted by Jugwine to general at 11:37 AM on June 03, 2004 - 13 comments
The Price of Defection: The family José Contreras left behind.
posted by Jugwine to baseball at 12:27 PM on June 01, 2004 - 3 comments
Umpires of the Negro Leagues.: Learn more about the call for "race umpires" in the Negro Leagues and of Bob Motley, the last living Negro League umpire.
posted by Jugwine to baseball at 10:36 AM on May 27, 2004 - 4 comments
The ceremonial shaving of Johnny Damon.: You know, for charity!
posted by Jugwine to baseball at 05:11 PM on May 21, 2004 - 8 comments
As much as I'd like to believe that Belichick is playing N-dimensional chess with the rest of the league up to this point, after 7 games I'm starting to think that they are what their record indicates -- a mediocre team playing mediocre football. Luckily for them the rest of the AFC East is mediocre or worse, so a playoff berth still seems likely.
posted by Jugwine at 10:02 AM on October 22, 2012
I don't know. The Yankee batters didn't exactly cover themselves in glory during the Orioles series, either.
posted by Jugwine at 09:29 AM on October 19, 2012
I hear one of the leading candidates to replace him is an unknown named 'Robby Ballentine'. Here's a picture.
posted by Jugwine at 11:59 PM on October 04, 2012
I think a system where there were two wild card teams in each league that had to play a 1 or 3 game series against each other in order to move on to the divisional round would be great. It would finally give an incentive for teams to win their division over getting the wild card when they are in a position to do one or the other. I feel like having some consequence for getting to the playoffs via wild card would undo some of "it doesn't matter how we get there, as long as we make the playoffs" sort of thinking that baseball has under the current system.
I wouldn't like to see it expanded more than that, though.
posted by Jugwine at 11:59 AM on June 13, 2011
GALAHAD: Let us taunt Brady! He may become so cross that he will make a mistake.
ARTHUR: Like what?
GALAHAD: Well,....
posted by Jugwine at 07:56 PM on January 13, 2011
If you want some good hate, check out the tweets to @John_W_Henry during the five or so hours where it looked like the Adrian Gonzalez trade was not going to go through. Here are some examples.
posted by Jugwine at 09:50 AM on December 06, 2010
I'm pretty sure that I could feel Nolan Ryan's seething rage during that inning here in Boston, it burned so intensely.
posted by Jugwine at 10:04 AM on October 29, 2010
It's not even that, though, it's "Some of my mom's best friends are gay."
Weak sauce.
posted by Jugwine at 10:38 AM on August 14, 2010
What's not to get? Whitey Ford isn't as great as you think he is because he never won 20 games in a seasons except when he did and because his managers never thought he was good enough to start game 7 of a World Series even though not all the series he pitched in went seven games.
It couldn't be clearer!
posted by Jugwine at 02:42 PM on August 03, 2010
And of course the sidebar ad is of Michael Strahan crushing a baseball with an aluminum bat...
I don't really understand the resistance -- professional baseball uses wooden bats. If you want to be a professional baseball player, you need to learn how to hit with a wooden bat.
I see that there is a cost issue since wooden bats break, but can't you buy multiple wooden bats for the same price as a high-end aluminum?
posted by Jugwine at 10:27 AM on March 24, 2010
And a quick Googling reveals that this is the only place on the Internet where you'll find the phrase "indoor baseball purists".
posted by Jugwine at 12:21 PM on October 05, 2009
I've seen Belichick win three superbowls, but this is the first time I remember seeing him all choked up!
posted by Jugwine at 10:12 PM on August 31, 2009
I can better understand the 5.2% who left Henderson off the ballot than the one writer who decided to spend one of his votes on Jesse Orosco.
posted by Jugwine at 08:26 AM on January 13, 2009
AHL announces new Pacific Division
It looks like Manchester, Norfolk & Glens Falls are getting ECHL franchises as a consolation prize. I haven't heard what's happening in Worcester.