Practice makes perfect, as the saying goes, but practice isn’t what I thought when I was younger. I believed band practice was a series of smoke breaks, interrupted by a song or two. When I was a kid, I always missed baseball and soccer practice because I thought: what’s the point? Instead, practice is the […]
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Ideal Bullpen Construction
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Bullpen construction is a psychological hierarchy. We need a lefty? We’ll look at the numbers? Hardly. It’s all about people and roles. The closer is the fulcrum upon which the entire ‘pen rests. Without a closer, the mental state of every reliever is in flux. What is my role, he asks? The closer sets the […]
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Are you bored? More often I find myself getting something to do while watching a game. Something to read. Messing around on my phone. Anything that fills the gaps. Is it odd to need to be entertained while watching something that’s supposed to be entertaining? I’m always shocked at how much down time there is […]
OK with KD
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I want to play on the best team. I want to win the championship. I want to be KD. Sports are strange. We get caught in narratives. This is to help sell the sports, and sell the newspapers/ESPNs making money off the sports. Often times, the narrative needs to be something that makes easy […]