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3 Strikes: Change For Certainty
We crave certainty; we like knowing--or believing that we know--what's coming up next. Change scares most people. While most people put up the pretense of liking change, most would rather settle in to the expected. Change in sports is even scarier. Change in sports...
Browsing the Braves
There might be something of a fire sale going on in Atlanta.After dealing top closer Craig Kimbrel to the Padres last year and elite shortstop Andrelton Simmons to the Angels just a week or so ago, FOX Sports national writer Ken Rosenthal reported that a source...
Starting to Look at the Starting Pitching
So the Orioles need starting pitching.That’s not really news -- everyone in the league needs starting pitching except possibly the New York Mets, to some degree or another. But a quick look at the numbers Baltimore starters put up last year (or a quick trip down...
The Choice to Re-sign Chris Davis Is Not a Choice
The long and short of it is that the Orioles need to re-sign 1B Chris Davis, and barring a massive drop in his market value, such a contract would almost certainly be the biggest free agent outlay in franchise history. But if the rest of the league is sane, and if...
3 Strikes: The Process
One of the most used terms in today’s sports vernacular is “The Process”. Often mistaken for coach-speak, the term actually has more value than its overuse may indicate. Organizations with a clear process tend to do better for the long term. Otherwise, organizations...
Four on the Doorstep: A Baltimore Guide to the Championship Round
The media executives, one imagines, are of mixed feelings.On the one hand, Toronto and Kansas City in the American League Championship Series is traditionally underwhelming, from a ratings perspective. They didn’t want both Texas teams to make it -- after all, an...
3 Strikes: On Baseball Tradition
One of the synonyms for the word tradition is “unwritten law”. That seems to go quite nicely with baseball. The word “tradition” is almost synonymous with baseball. Major League Baseball is the one sport that centers its marketing around its history. It sells people...
Is Rick Peterson’s Time Up?
The time has come for the Orioles to make hard choices -- but the first choice they make may not be especially hard, nor may it even be much of a choice.If recent reports from ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick and FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal are true, it is time for the Baltimore...