With all of the interesting corporate Wikipedia edits being exposed thanks to the Wikiscanner, I thought it would be interesting to check out what, if anything, was being edited by the powers that be in Major League Baseball.
I first checked out what the Tribune Company had been up to on the interwebs. Starting in […]

Poster ChuckDickens over at the Desipio Message Boards as come up with a genius new stat - GRIT (General Requirements of Intangible Talent).
By his calculations, Cubs players who have had GRITy seasons include -
1963 Andre Rodgers
1965 Don Landrum
1998 Mickey Morandini
2001 Ricky Gutierrez
2001 Eric Young
2005 Jerry Hairston

Cub Town posts about a new book decrying elitism in sports coverage and the WSJ reviewer that skewers it, defending sports blogging in the process. The real gem comes in the comment by Ken Arneson, author of the Catfish Stew and Humbug blogs where he states:
Baseball news is about money. It’s not about some […]

Scott Long over at Baseball Toaster’s Juice Blog comes up with a baseball prediction formula that even Murray Chass would love.

SI.com has a web poll up asking Cub fans to vote for the fan blog that has the best Cubs info. The Choices are Bleed Cubbie Blue, View from the Bleachers, Cub Town, and Desipio.
I’m not quite sure who was determining who the candidates were, but not to include Cub Reporter is […]

Is it just a little sad that the last pic Gameday has of Rey Ordonez is in a Cubs uniform from 3 years ago?

(Note: The following rant is overlong, meandering, and continuing proof why writers need an editor, but I felt I needed to regurgitate it here, despite the fact that it’s fairly in-cohesive and probably makes no sense)
MAX: They come and they go, Hobbs. They come and they go. I’ll be around here longer than […]

It’s spring training for the Gameday webmasters as well…

Cubnut over at Cub Reporter sums up Prior’s problem perfectly.

Curt Schilling likes to make his opinions known. He has always seemed very comfortable in front of a microphone and using his notoriety as an All-Star, World Series winning pitcher to speak out on whatever is on his mind, be it steroids or skin cancer. The past few seasons, Schilling has been dropping […]