Jon Heyman at Sports Illustrated applied a measurement he called the “Worry Meter” in a recent column, detailing a few major league teams “who have struggled out of the gate, and just how worried they should be.” Despite leaving Altoona with a 5 game loss streak at the back, I’d put the worry meter for [...]
When the Richmond Braves skipped town for Gwinnett County, Georgia back in 2008, the move triggered a wave of psychic trauma here in Metro Richmond. The R-Braves had been our team for an astonishing four decades, and we never really thought, despite the rumors, there was any danger they could go away. They were the [...]
Competitive sports give us (in the really grand, societal, macro-level “us” sense) reasons to hate people we’ll never meet. That’s a good thing, and it’s to be encouraged, even if in Philadelphia that means people wind up booing Santa Claus and throwing batteries at J.D. Drew. That Santa Claus figure has always seemed kind of [...]
What can be done to fix The Diamond’s concession lines?
By Taber on April 19, 2010
By a lot of accounts, the home opening series at The Diamond was successful. The home team took three of four games, we all loved the cup holders and individual seats in the lower levels, and that mascot of ours is positively relentless. Not to mention that it just feels good to have baseball back [...]
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