It’s been a tough year for White Sox slugger Adam Dunn by almost every metric. But thanks to a fantastic website, I found one stat by which he can claim bragging rights this season.
The Sox big slugger is having one of the worst offensive seasons in baseball, a big surprise given his consistency over the years. But looking deeper at his numbers suggests there’s nothing to be surprised about, except maybe some bad luck. Plus: are the White Sox too impatient as a team?
Albert Pujols’s pending free agency portends a wild off-season and a lucrative payday for the best player of our generation. But Milwaukee’s powerful first baseman is a great, cheaper second option, going into the prime of his career as Pujols passes out of his. Besides, the Cubs’ most pressing need is and will continue to be their awful pitching staff.
What happens when you actually put money on waiting ’til next year, by the numbers. Plus: Wrigley’s a dump, but that’s not really the point.
King James had a rough Finals, wearing down during the fourth quarter on a game-by-game basis. LeBron has since been called out for his passive play… but another possibility is that he was just worn down. In fact, he got asked to play more minutes this year than MJ did in his prime.
ARCTIC BLAST: The mission: a round of golf near the top of the world. The foursome: three boomers and their dead buddy’s ashes. They’ve got one RV, a full tank of gas, and plenty of rum onboard. Hit it.
Contrary to what Derrick Rose says, the loss doesn’t fall on his shoulders. He made mistakes, but didn’t get enough help from his young team, much like the Michael Jordan of old. Plus: Scottie Pippen says LeBron might be better than MJ. Heresy!
Randy “Macho Man” Savage, who died today, was born Randy Mario Poffo, a Downers Grove native who found fame in the WWE. But he wasn’t the first wrestler in the family: that would be his dad, Angelo Poffo, a DePaul grad who wrestled in Chicago during the sport’s infancy.
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Basketball allowed Derrick Rose to get out of Englewood. But it also kept him, and his family, safe. According to Rose, he was actually safer in Englewood than he would have been elsewhere, because of the game.
