by A.J. Coltrane
I tuned into the last 20 minutes of Clubhouse Confidential today. (Not a show I was familiar with.) I was waiting for the Cotton Bowl to start, paged around the usual sports channels, and saw this episode description: “Statistics-based discussions of Major League Baseball news and rumors, with expert guests.”
Now, that’s right up my alley. What did I get?
1st segment: Seven minutes of the 3 panelists arguing about whether players suspected and/or proven of having done steroids should be eligible for the Hall Of Fame.
2nd segment: A six-minute talk with the president of the baseball Hall Of Fame, Jeff Idelson, answering questions about the Hall’s stance on including players linked to steroids, and other related topics.
3rd segment: A short look at the panelists’ HoF ballots, including Jon Heyman’s contrarian picks of Don Mattingly and Dale Murphy. Bernie Williams and Lee Smith get brief mentions. Still no real stats to speak of in this segment, just one infographic tacked under a Mattingly picture to reference Mattingly’s 5-year OPS+ peak.
Huh? That’s not exactly Fangraphs, USSM, or Lookout Landing. The steroid thing has already been rehashed about 10,000,000 times. The show description implied some sabermetric-oriented stuff, and the show was basically Pardon The Interruption.
That was dreck. Maybe I got them on a bad day(?)
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Horner is actually one of the few players to hit 4 Homers in a game. I however will remember him for the white man jerry curl look in the 80’s that he sported.
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