Any self-respecting student of insane Machiavellian gambits should be familiar with the Madman Theory, Richard Nixon’s self-invented strategy for winning the war in Vietnam. The theory, as recounted by Nixon chief of staff H.R. Haldeman after he got out of … Continue reading
This was the game we’d played all year to be in: The championship game against 78 Steckel. Both teams came in riding three-game postseason winning streaks; the difference was that our last game was yesterday and Steckel’s was last weekend, … Continue reading
After the rains that washed out all this past week’s tournament games from Monday through Friday, the skies finally cleared today so the Green Blueberries could take the field against Holy Name Meehan in the final of the elimination bracket, … Continue reading
Going into the weekend, we had to feel pretty good about our chances in our tournament matchup against 78 Lieber: We’d beaten them four out of five times in the regular season, we were coming off probably our best game … Continue reading
After our loss last weekend to SFX Mezzo-Lui, we faced a daunting task to stay alive in the double-elimination tournament: Beat 78 Shiffman, who we had never beaten in I don’t know how many tries across seven or eight seasons. … Continue reading
In modern baseball analysis, one of the most important principles is that batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is roughly a constant. In the majors, BABIP — in other words, batting average on everything other than strikeouts or home … Continue reading
Last night, we faced off again with 78 Lieber, or at least mostly 78 Lieber — they required a last-second infusion of a couple of friends and family members to field a nine-player lineup. But all was good by 6 … Continue reading
I didn’t forget the recap of last night’s game, which was a wild one: Eleven batters into the rubber match of our three-game regular-season series vs. SFX Mezzo-Lui, the game seemed to be over before it had started: The Mets … Continue reading
Today’s game vs. the SFX Mezzo-Lui Mets wasn’t a lot like anything familiar at all. The weirdness started in the top of the first, when Jordan N led off by drawing a walk, moved to second on a botched force … Continue reading
Friday’s game vs. Holy Name Meehan was like a lot of our recent games: We hit the ball well, pitched okay, and made errors (7) and gave up unearned runs (also 7) in bunches. Highlights included Dylan striking out three … Continue reading