Archive for February, 2013

Promotional Speaking Industry Untouched by Sabermetric Revolution

Baseballnumbers have come a long way in twenty years. They’ve made Jeremy Brown into a D-list celebrity, driven Steve Garvey to gibbering insanity, and transformed Bert Blyleven into a bearded god-child. But lest you fear that the market inefficiencies have all been made efficient, and that the world is horribly, horribly flat, I present one bastion against common sense: the promotional speaking industry.

Yes, for a trifling sum, you can enlist one of many eager retired or current baseball players to speak at your family barbecue and/or corporate retreat. Do you have strategic branding initiatives that lack a celebrity endorsement to complement it? Fetch your checkbook! But be sure you’re not overpaying for RBIs.

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Spotted: Baseball’s Least Googleable Name, Probably

Fenway Parks

Even at such a time as he’s drafted, ascends through the minors, and develops into the major leagues’ best ever player ever, it might still be the case that high-school prospect Fenway Parks is unable to find even one mention of himself on the internet via his Google Computer.

Credit to Kiley McDaniel for this important discovery.


Totally Unaltered Tweet: What Chase Headley Is Discussing

On the field, Chase Headley has committed himself to excellence as both an offensive and defensive player. As the following tweet reveals — courtesy MLB Trade Rumors and in-no-way altered from the original — as it reveals, Headley has also committed himself to becoming familiar with the most important ideas of our time (click to embiggen):

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