There are a few things you can be sure of about this year’s Cincinnati Reds: IF all of their talent plays up to their full potential, the young Red Machine will be tough to handle; IF it doesn’t, we’ll blame Dusty Baker. Sorry, Dusty, that’s just how it works with you… We don’t make the [...]
Posted by Isaac Thorn on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 11:01 pm
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BDD’s Isaac Thorn considers himself a simple man… that joke writes itself, doesn’t it? Actually, Mr. Thorn is a datacaster for MLB.com and while he already has a “job in baseball”, the guy still wants to “earn a living writing about baseball.” The nerve! Terms of the deal were undisclosed but Isaac is signed to [...]
Posted by Brian Joseph on Friday, February 26, 2010 at 1:38 am
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Like most of us with siblings, I have often been motivated to prove that my brother doesn’t know what he talks about.
Upon hearing of Jason Bay’s pending four-year, $66 million pact with the Mets my brother opined that Bay will be the best left fielder the Mets have has since the days of Garbage Pail [...]
Posted by Isaac Thorn on Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 11:57 am
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The Reds need to hammer out a deal with free-agent catcher Miguel Olivo. Hopefully Reds ownership resists the urge to cut payroll and trade away Brandon Phillips and/or Bronson Arroyo.
I feel strongly that if the Reds inked Olivo that he would have the best offensive year as a catcher by a Red since the not [...]
Posted by Isaac Thorn on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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In today’s New York Post David Wells suggests that Andy Pettite’s first pitch to Chase Utley should knock him down. As an ex-player, Wells can certainly make a valid argument about the function and necessity of throwing inside to hitters.
It’s even easier to make that argument after Alex Rodriguez has been hit. It might seem [...]
Posted by Isaac Thorn on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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Missed calls by umpires in both League Division Series were scrutinized intensely, and used as a rallying cry by those in favor of making Instant Replay a more integral part of the game. What I fear they fail to see is that human error is a big part of baseball, and how it is played. [...]
Minnesota has leaped from the fire of a one-game playoff and into the frying pan of a very talented Yankee team. Most pundits don’t think the Twins will be able to parlay the emotional high of an extra inning win over Detroit into enough momentum to knock off New York.
It makes sense to believe that [...]
