This is just a quick note: starting today the Continuum will be featured in Baseball-Reference.com’s “player news” sections, so as you are browsing B-Ref you might come across a link to this site. These links will be to articles where the player’s name was linked to their B-Ref page.
This probably won’t affect any of you whatsoever, but I thought it a good idea to let you all know.
When I am asked- and I am never asked- where to find the best sportswriting on the internet, I point (well, I would point if I was ever asked) to one of two websites.
The first, and the older of the two, is Grantland. Part of the ESPN empire and run by “Boston Sports Guy” Bill Simmons, it sports a large roster of writers writing about not only sports, but also popular culture. While it can sometimes be hit and miss, and Simmons’ himself is decidedly a mixed bag, it is still a daily destination, especially during big-time sports events.
The second, newer but more focused on sports, is Sports on Earth, a joint-venture between USA Today and Major League Baseball Advanced Media that is like Grantland, only without the pop culture. One of the biggest drawing cards for SoE is the fact that it features Joe Posnanski, one of the best sports columnists on the internet, period.
Check them out.
Coming this week:
SUNDAY: A random video of the undetermined amount of time.
MONDAY: A review of Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro by David Shields.
TUESDAY: Off-topic Tuesday and a WBC pool preview
WEDNESDAY: A WBC Qualifying pool preview
THURSDAY-SATURDAY: TBD
I sometimes use a lot of acronyms and words that some may be confused by. Therefore, I have created a glossary that can be found at the top of the page.
Let me know if there is anything you want to be defined.
So, baseball’s season may be over, but the Baseball Continuum never is quiet. Here are some things to look forward too over the next few months:
WordPress has a feature where you can see from what countries people are looking at your blog from, as well as what they are searching for. The results for me are quite varied and in some cases surprising. So if you are bored, go after the jump to see some of the things I have gleaned from the data:
Let’s look back at developments from some previous posts….
Oh, and the Cubs still stink, so the world isn’t ending.
One of the great places on the baseball-related internet is the Baseball Biography Project run by SABR (the Society of American Baseball Research). It is exactly what it says it is: a project to put up biographies of baseball figures. Most of them are short-but-sweet, but some are longer, more in-depth
They range from the obvious (Babe Ruth and Willie Mays) to the famous-because-they-are-obscure (Eddie Gaedel and Moonlight Graham) to the downright I-haven’t-ever-heard-of-them obscure (picking randomly: Tom Hernon and Pat Purtell).
A good way to waste time while soaking up some sweet baseball knowledge.
Quick post right now to note that, later today/tonight, keep an eye open for the Trade Deadline Review, where I figure out the winners and losers of the trade deadline.
Until then…. uhhh… watch the Olympics. Or something.
I was going to write a off-topic story about what I was looking forward to with the release of The Dark Knight Rises. But after hearing the tragic news from Colorado this morning, I feel as if it would be in some ways insensitive to do so.
My thoughts are with the victims and their families.
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