Tag archive: can-o-corn

MLB16 Chin Music: Angels Weep But Gods Still Favor Pujols & Trout

It won’t be the question that keeps Anaheim Angels’ braintrust fidgeting when their 2016 season ends with conclusion of Sunday afternoon’s game against the visiting Astros. More likely it will be the ...

MLB16: Troutonics & Rise of Hamiltonianism

In a time when numerology has become the method by which every editor and marketing director in the land shapes their sport media product, a use that borders on the obsessive and ...

Barry Bonds, Elections and Lies-by-Right

‘You knew but what’d ya’ll do?’ “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!” Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott (1808) Webmaster Barry Bonds rejoined his “fraternity” last month ...

MLB16 Chin Music: What If Cubs Do Hoist?

These are different days in the land of bruins, “big shoulders” and manual scoreboards. If you’d been pulling a Rip Van Winkle and just awoke from your Washington Irving-like slumber you might ...

MLB15 Chin Music: The Perfect Game That Wasn’t

Perfection. It’s a rare bird in this wild we call life, but it is out there, if you‘ve the inclination and eyes to spot it. The varieties are many. The following are ...

MLB15 Chin Music: All the GM’s Men?

To risk so much, for so little. That was my first thought after reading report last week of an FBI investigation into a possible hacking of Houston Astros computer database in 2013 ...

Chin Music: Bryant Call-up Coming to Roost?

Just to pose the idea would send shockwaves throughout the sport fantasy world and probably elicit more than a few bellows of ‘bonehead’ directed at the poser, had they a megaphone of ...

MLB15 Chin Music: Giants Formula No Secret

Three World Series titles in five seasons (2010, ‘12 & ‘14). That’s impressive stuff. And very satisfying too, especially for older Giants‘ fans, when you consider it took the East Coast transplants ...

Chin Music: Pigskin or Cowhide, Bama’s Ball Country

Alabama. The name itself has its origin in the Choctaw Indian language, then reflecting Spanish, French and English influence from exploration & settlement beginning around the mid-1500s. Its meaning is not entirely ...

Chin Music’14: Moneyball’s Measured Dividend

It’s been quite a spell since the Oakland Athletics have basked in the bright lights and chilled-air of a fall classic. Not as long as some clubs (Cubs, DC), but still, a ...

Chin Music’14: Kershaw and Redemption

Clayton Kershaw is having one of those seasons. If the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lanky pitching ace can hold form from post to finish, his 2014 exploits should stay etched in the minds of ...