One of my rights of spring is purchasing the annual Baseball Prospectus, a statistical, and fairly geeky, review and prediction of hundreds of major and minor league baseball players. One of the main challenges in changing apartments twice in 2011 was managing my half-dozen or so editions of the thick book. This year’s edition clocks in … Continue reading »
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9 Reasons I’m (Trying to Be) A Washington Nationals Fan
A Chicago friend invited me to a Nationals-Braves game over last weekend. Despite the fact that it started to rain as I entered the stadium, I left feeling excited about a potential new sports relationship. On the train home I thought up nine reasons for me to try to become a Nationals fan: Proximity. Nationals … Continue reading »
MLB.com chooses PR over journalism
I’d had this week circled on the calendar for months for three words: Pitchers and Catchers. That cherished right of spring reminds me that baseball is the subject of much of my favorite digital media. The MLB mobile app is one of my favorites, allowing me to fall asleep to the dulcet tones of Vin … Continue reading »
The Media’s Alex Rodriguez Lie
I open with this with the caveat that sports journalism in and of itself is irrelevant, but its odd proclivities reveal telling things about journalism as a whole. That send, the sports media’s obsession with spreading falsehoods about baseball player Alex Rodriguez may tell us something about the ways in which professional journalists spread misinformation. … Continue reading »
