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Bruce Jenkins Likes Gut Feeling Over Stats in Hall of Fame Voting

I'll just get this out of the way. I hate people who are too reliant on stats when judging baseball players and/or teams. I've said it before, but the game is not played on a spreadsheet. Human beings play this precision sport on the field. On the other hand, it's very much a stat-based game when you are arguing for things...

Barry Bonds' Ghost Still Haunts Barry Zito

There are lots of reasons one might find for why Barry Zito has been egregiously ineffective this year. They include, but are not limited to: a drop in velocity, weirdly inconsistent mechanics, poor defense, and so forth. All you have to do is watch, really, and you can see it: Zito's just not the same player he used to...

Bruce Jenkins: Steve Phillips Is Wrong

It's not just our man Larry Brown who thinks Steve Phillips is way off base when it comes to Barry Bonds breaking the all-time home run record at home -- it's San Fransisco Chron columnist Bruce Jenkins, too, who rails against Phillips in his latest blog post: Like most everyone with common sense, Phillips believes that...

Jenkins: Aaron and Selig Should Stay Away From Bonds' Chase

Bruce Jenkins, baseball writer for the San Fransisco Chronicle, says that before Bonds really begins this season's chase in earnest, we need to get a few things straight. One: Hank Aaron and Bud Selig should stay away from the chase at all costs, and two: there's no way the Giants would dream of trading Barry Bonds away....

Bruce Jenkins News From the Web

05/23/12 Fort Knox to open renovated welcome center Source: The News-Enterprise - Elizabethtown KY With a renovated welcome center at Fort Knox comes a hope that the installation will foster a more welcoming atmosphere to the community.
05/02/12 Madrid Open Clay Courts Turned Blue Source: Sports Business Journal The traditionally red clay courts at the Mutua Madrid Open are "drowned in a sickening onslaught of blue," according to Bruce Jenkins of SI.com. Jenkins wrote, "It's one thing to shift the hardcourts of the Australian and U.S. Opens from green to blue," but the red clay of La Caja Mag...
04/17/12 LDS Church not part of redrawn liquor suit against... Source: The Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City UT An amended lawsuit by a Utah hospitality trade group seeking to overturn a state liquor law has dropped claims that LDS Church officials have unduly influenced state lawmakers.