Category Archives: bigPUMALinks

bigPumaLinks: baseball all the time edition

bigpumalinks-logo

– Keeper of the Kohn, on Hulu. This is a documentary about Peter Kohn, the Middlebury College lacrosse team’s retired equipment manager. Kohn’s primary passion is lacrosse, but he made his way out to the baseball fields at Middlebury every once in a while to give us a pep talk, and to manage our equipment for a day or two. I knew little of him back then, and this video goes a long way to tell the man’s story. In early season baseball, Kohn, a master ball-finder, would head out into the trees behind the outfield wall at Forbes Field and return an hour later with three or four of the skankiest, rottenest baseballs you’ve ever seen in your life.

– The e-book revolution reaches the Mariners dugout, as the old (Jarrod Washburn and his paper dinosaurs) and the new (Brandon Morrow and his 3-year-old e-book reader) clash over technology, and bond over content. Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times

– Virginia Heffernan looks at the manner of discourse among reader comments on journalism sites. The Medium – NYTimes

– Fun Start: A concise overview of the season and its funness thus far. David Pinto, Baseball Musings

– Several days ago marked the anniversary of the interesting Bissinger vs. Leitch debate on HBO. Deadspin

– Keith Olbermann‘s apolitical baseball blog, Baseball Nerd, is pretty great, as well-thought and meticulous as you might expect. Baseball Nerd on closers, look-alikes.

Advertisement

Leave a comment

Filed under bigPUMALinks

bigPumaLinks: Easter edition

bigpumalinks-logo1

If you’re not following the baseball yatra (yatra: n. [Hindi] journey; travel) of Rinku and Dinesh as they train as pitchers in the Pirates system, you’re missing two kids learning baseball from the ground up, in a most unusual manner. The Million Dollar Arm Blog

Eric Nusbaum wrote an essay on baseball and literature at The Baseball Chronicle, and he’s got a new (I think) blog, Pitchers & Poets, that asks some interesting questions.

There’s a movement online that I was until recently completely oblivious to: customized, original, decentralized baseball card production. A great place to start is at Goose Joak, which will enable you to fan out to the vast networks of Photoshop wizards putting these very nice-looking cards together. Aside: don’t miss the Lebowski cards, here, here, here, &tc. In fact, it’s such a fun idea, I did one myself:

The first Waiting For Berkman baseball card

The first Waiting For Berkman baseball card

Man alive, what is this? Hand Spits Burks on the Humbug Journal

1 Comment

Filed under bigPUMALinks

bigPumaLinks, March 13 edition

bigpumalinks-logo

PS#’s MLB 09: The Show is drawing rave reviews from critics and crowdsources. GameSpot

Negative World Baseball Classic columns continue to bash stupid positivity, hoping, I guess, to tip the scales. Philly.com

Jason Kottke asks: “do athletes see themselves as two different entities?” Kottke.org

Via Joe Posnanski, the MLB Network sums up the PECOTA prediction system, ends up talking too much. YouTube

Hanshin Tigers cite curse of handless, muck-covered Colonel Sanders. Mainichi Daily News

“Yankees’ backup 3rd baseman woken up”. The Onion

Writer goes to umpire school, meditates on the strike zone and its airyness. via ShysterBall

3 Comments

Filed under bigPUMALinks

bigPumaLinks: What’s a steeroid? Tell more more about this

bigpumalinks-logo

Lance Berkman says he’s clean but that nobody will care. Houston Chronicle

Roy Oswalt wants a separate record book for convicted PEDers. Houston Chronicle

Richard Sandomir wanted tougher questions put to A-Roid. New York Times

Dave Zirin knows that A-Rod is only the latest fall guy. Edge of Sports

“The screaming is about the screamers,” as BP investigates all the media PED hullabaloo. Baseball Prospectus

As good a time as any to look back at John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu.” New Yorker

Leave a comment

Filed under bigPUMALinks

bigPumaLinks: The good king Kaufman edition

bigPumaLinks

bigPumaLinks

Leave a comment

Filed under bigPUMALinks

bigPumaLinks: MLB Network debut edition

bigPUMA links - MLB Network debut edition

bigPUMA links - MLB Network debut edition

MLB.com provides a broad set of reactions to the new MLB Network. MLB.com

Awful Announcing weighs in on the MLB Network debut. Awful Announcing

Wrigley Field gets a temporary makeover to blow your crossover sporting mind. Chicago Tribune

A wrap-up of the year in sports advertising from columnist Dave Darling. Orlando Sentinel

Rob Neyer looks at the new hotness in SABRstats, Win Values. Rob Neyer Blog

Leave a comment

Filed under bigPUMALinks

bigPumaLinks: frosty air

bigPUMAlinks frosty air edition

bigPUMAlinks frosty air edition

  • The Astros recently closed their Venezuelan baseball academy. A commenter on Hardball Times provides some additional insight.
  • 2001 article discussing the then-new agreement to stream MLB content, which was accurately predicted to change the way we watch the game. LOL moment: “Video will be available in as little as an hour after the game ends”. Silly inhabitants of the early millenium…
  • The nice-looking cover of a book I’ve not heard of about baseball cards.
  • Awasum Junior gets around with interviews promoting the African Baseball Network and the development of the game in Africa. youtube site, homepage.
  • Hire Joe Morgan

Leave a comment

Filed under bigPUMALinks