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Out With The Crowd: “The AL East is weird this year”
July 28, 2012 – 11:40 AM | 7 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “The AL East is weird this year”

OWTC celebrates the upcoming trade deadline by talking Yankees baseball with my old friend and lifelong Bombers fan Tim (he’s popped up on TN before as “Omega”). We talked about run differentials, reversions to mean, …

Out With The Crowd: “I’m so glad this is his last season”
May 7, 2012 – 2:25 PM | 4 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “I’m so glad this is his last season”

Out With The Crowd ventured into the NL East late last week when I interviewed Lauren, the head rodeo clown at LoveMyBravos.com, about bullpen-management issues, stupid baby names, and J. Hey’s new look.
Sarah D. Bunting: …

Heart Attacks
September 29, 2011 – 3:46 PM | 32 Comments
Heart Attacks

Wow. WOW.
I feel bad for Braves and Sox fans, I do. God knows I understand what it’s like to watch a team floundering (although, when you give up hope of contending in, like, the 1800s, …

What Might Have Been; What Was
June 3, 2010 – 12:37 PM | 21 Comments
What Might Have Been; What Was

It’s not that Matthew Pouliot didn’t let the body cool before deeming Ken Griffey, Jr. “overrated.” It’s not even that the word “overrated” is the very first word in the headline — that that adjective, …