Doolittle:I hate to do it, because I love watching him pitch so much, but after another injury-truncated season and a further dip in velocity, we oversold Clayton Kershaw at No. 2. In my rating system (Awards Index), I had him at No. 62 at season's end and no one is really ...
this is a guy who has pitched more than 4,000 innings in his career (and won 267 games), yet has thrown just one inning in the All-Star Game (at the age of 40). He made his major league debut two years before Strasburg was born and he has thrown...
The MEOW, as befits our cat-crazed house, goes to this year’s highest rated Nobel FC subject: Jean Paul Sartre. I do feel that I should note that Jaroslav Seifert and Han Kang were surprising treats. But Sartre’s vision and imagination (plus raging ego) gave him the highest rating so...
""Royals"" was written as a sort of diss-track against the lavish lifestyle and excesses of many pop stars but got its title when Lorde saw a picture of Kansas City Royals star George Brett in a magazine. ""It was just that word. It’s really cool,” she said of the song, which...
In October 2014, with the Angels coming off an uplifting, 98-win regular season, a major flaw was exposed in Trout's game. While the entire nation watched, the Kansas City Royals constantly attacked him with chest-high fastballs, prompting a 1-for-12 showing in what ended in an American...