I think Miguel was kinda potbellied when he was with the Orioles, too. Maybe he’s shaped up with the ‘Stros?

And Weingarten is that worst type of newspaper writer: the hacky “humor” columnist who shows up on Sunday to bore you to death.

Looking my own team, we have 2 lefties who used to catch when they were younger, but they don’t catch for us, simply because we don’t have a catcher glove for lefties.

Craig - Consider yourself quite the detective: Finding *any* baseball story in the WaPo while the [racist-name football team] is in training camp is a challenge.

are all yall SABR guys bringing up YOUR daughters to be stat geeks?????

and seems to me that the old, fat White guy who write that piece of racist, sexist, ageist crap in a dying paper needs to go and look in the mirror…

One of the guys in our league went to the SABR convention this year, presumably to gain an edge over the rest of us. He is neither old nor retired, he is white though, and he reported that there was a wide range of ages represented there, but the presenters, ie the guys doing actual statistical work, were also neither old nor retired.

Weingarten must be trying to imitate Tony Kornheiser, who has parlayed his “humor” and sportswriting mash into a comfortable existence. When I was reading Tony, though, he at least had a passing familiarity with the facts (ie the Redskins stink, etc), unlike Weingarten.

SABR be shoppin’!