If you haven’t read enough trade break-down yet, good friend Trev Smith and I did a brief, Grantland-style e-mail exchange discussing the trade from the Toronto perspective. That correspondence is below. Blake: The board approved it. Colangelo stays. This is my first thought. Trev: I have always liked Jose as a person, on and off [...]
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Rudy Gay Trade – E-Mail Exchange
Posted: 31st January 2013 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, NBA Ball, Trev SmithComments Off
Royal Rumble E-Mail Exchange
Posted: 27th January 2013 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, Other TopicsComments Off
My good friend Greg Houde and I are unabashed wrestling supporters. As such, the Royal Rumble, and thus Wrestlemania season, have us very excited. We exchanged emails discussing tonight’s Rumble event and the potential fallout of different booking scenarios. Blake: Alright Greg, the Royal Rumble is Sunday. It’s the second biggest event on the WWE [...]
Vancouver Set to Become Portland
Posted: 16th January 2013 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, Other TopicsComments Off
VANCOUVER – Vancouver City Council appears to be just hours away from officially designating the city as Portland. After a council meeting Wednesday broke down to a string of comparisons to Portland, the council decided it best to just become the Oregon city. Mayor Gregor Robertson, in particular, was excited to rebrand Canada’s third largest [...]
Fantasy Football – Final Full-Season Rankings
Posted: 7th September 2012 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, FootballComments Off
What follows is not much of an article so much as it is a post for the purpose of public record. At the risk of posting my position rankings for my opponents to see, I want my pre-season (as well as, later, my weekly) ranks on the record. My hope by the end of the [...]
Is Colby Rasmus’ Break Out For Real?
Posted: 13th July 2012 by Blake Murphy in Baseball, Blake MurphyComments Off
As a card-carrying member of #RasmusNation, I really want to believe that the Colby we’ve all witnessed for the past six weeks is the “real” Colby Rasmus, and not just another short-term hot streak. But, as always with Colby, it’s tough to know for sure. The narrative is certainly there to support his arrival as [...]
Live Blog – Trev and Blake on the NBA Draft
Posted: 29th June 2012 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, NBA Ball, Trev SmithComments Off
Trev and I had planned to do a more traditional Live Blog together, but being on crutches prevented me from joining Trev in Toronto. Instead, we used G-Chat to facilitate our discussion. I was going to tidy it up, but it’s about 7000 words and I don’t have that kind of patience. So, comb through [...]
E-Mail Exchange: Trev and Blake on NBA Conference Finals
Posted: 8th June 2012 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, NBA Ball, Trev SmithComments Off
After Oklahoma City vanquished the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night, Trev and I got emailing to show Simmons and Gladwell how it’s done. We hit a delay late on Thursday, but it was for the best as it gave us the chance to discuss LeBron’s magnificent series-saving Game 6 against the Celtics as well. [...]
AL East and NL East Set to Battle for Divisional Supremacy
Posted: 8th June 2012 by Blake Murphy in Baseball, Blake MurphyComments Off
It shouldn’t be news at this point that baseball is being dominated by an East Coast bias. Of course, I’m not referring to the generally maligned East Coast Bias of media reporting, whereby West Coast coverage falls by the wayside due to time zone differences. No, the Eastern Bias I’m referring to here is the [...]
Regression Police – Blue Jays’ Starting Pitchers
Posted: 5th June 2012 by Blake Murphy in Baseball, Blake MurphyComments Off
Last week I took a look at the ZIPS Rest of Season projections for the primary Jays’ hitters, concluding that while some players are due for a positive performance bump, the net gains would be about zero since the team’s run scoring output was already surpassing what one would expect from their slash lines (AVG/OBP/SLG). [...]
Looking at the Blue Jays’ Rest of Season ZIPS Projections
Posted: 29th May 2012 by Blake Murphy in Baseball, Blake MurphyThe Jays sit a game above .500 in fourth place in an insanely tight and highly competitive AL East. While 4 games out isn’t significant, the Jays have definitely missed some opportunities to shrink the gap. With very few push-over opponents in June (only 6 games against sub-.500 teams, and 3 of those are the [...]