World Series Analysis

Some of the new statistics available to the public are excellent and can help advance our understanding of baseball but don’t necessarily work like statistics have in the past. As a result, we’ll have to use different methodologies to gauge their value and what they’re telling us about baseball

Ah, baseball the sport that is slowly slipping into the same boat as Major League Soccer. Some rivalries here but it is about the same as the NFL, playoff matchups get confused as rivalries. The Cardinals and the Giants always offer up a great playoff series but for the regular season well not so much. They played around seven kinds of boring sloppy games where the pitching sucked and the bats were just as unimpressive. The best thing about baseball in all honesty is the playoff races like right now the AL central is hot along with the AL east that as well is about it.

In Patrick Lencioni’s leadership fable, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” he outlines what he believes to be the five most common dysfunctions of a team in business. Lencioni’s analysis on business dysfunction could easily be applied to the sports industry. As discussed previously, the 2004 USA Men’s Basketball team failure in Athens sheds light on these five dysfunctions. However, there are many more similar examples in the sports industry that also could be applied. For the purpose of this analysis, the focus of dysfunction will be applied to the 2015 season of the Washington Nationals. Lencioni highlights the five dysfunctions as being: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, absence of accountability, and inattention to

“To be great is to be misunderstood” This part of the story gets to me the most because of the way he said it. I think of this like when I was in Fertile baseball. We had many great players on our team, but when we had to move up to high school baseball it was like none of the coaches gave a thought about you. Mr. Jerome could’ve said you were great, but he didn’t mean it; if weren’t from Forest City you didn’t start no matter how good you were. I have many words I would like to say to him, like having a great team if he would’ve just tried you out once. As the saying goes though “To be great is to be misunderstood”. We were misunderstood by Forest City baseball, and Mr. Jerome, but we will be forever the greatest players to ever play

On April 15th 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers opened their season against the Boston Braves at Ebbets field. There was a festive air to the bleachers. Brooklynites were eager to return to their national pastime after a particularly cold winter. At first glance, this appeared to be a normal opening day. However, once you panned to the first base side of the diamond, you would see anything but typical. On that day, Jackie Robinson became the first black player to play in a Major League Baseball game since the start of the 20th century. On that day, for the first time, a baseball player with extraordinary talent was not overlooked because of the colour of his skin. On that day, the modern movement of racial integration began. However, Jackie

The Royals have a tendency to not quit and always keep fighting. Their fight and will has been proven over many seasons of hard work. Their comebacks have been so often that they were once known as the Comeback Kids and rightfully so. They definitely live up to their name and have shown that they are not like any other team. They also relate

Chicago had a unique opportunity this baseball season. They had the power to make baseball cool again. A power shift capable of altering the future of the sport. Instead they blew it. Every year the Cubs fail to reach the world series; youth baseball becomes a little less popular. A tragedy that is becoming harder and harder to stomach.

The players on the Charles Comiskey's 1919 Chicago White Sox team were a fractious lot. The club was divided into two "gangs" of players, each with practically nothing to say to the other. Together they formed the best team in baseball, perhaps one of the best teams that ever played the game, yet they--like all ball players of the time--were paid a fraction of what they were worth. The White Sox owner paid two of his greatest stars, outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and third baseman Buck Weaver, only $6000 a year. Comiskey's decision to save expenses by reducing the number of times uniforms were laundered gave rise to the original meaning of "The Black Sox." Comiskey has been labeled the tyrant and tightwad whose penurious practices made

The New York Yankees were the popularity in baseball in the 1990's, because at that time they were winning the world series. There biggest rivalry back then were the Boston Red Sox. They have played so many games against each other and have been in many fights. If there was one thing you could count on, it was the Yankees because they were just tremendously good and very exciting to watch all the time. You would just here there name when the game of baseball popped up and everybody would know exactly what you were talking about. The Yankees have put a mark on there name pretty well, Clark Griffith was there manager and he knew exaclty what he was

The Boston Red Sox have had a lot of successes since they became a ball club in 1901. Their first World Series was in 1903. In 1909 the Boston Red Sox had a record winning percentage

With the Trade Deadline coming up next Friday for Major League Baseball, many teams are faced with the idea of, "Do we buy or sell?" The trade deadline is a huge deal for teams because it can either help get them that playoff spot, or even help them prepare for next year. Last year we saw David Price go to the Detroit Tigers, Jon Lester to the Oakland Athletics and Joakim Soria, who also went to the Tigers. These deals helped those teams reach the playoffs, while the teams on the opposing end received early help to rebuild for next year. Here, we 'll look at some teams that should buy & sell.

The Chicago Cubs incredible 2014/15 season came to a disappointing end Wednesday night. Chicago was swept by the New York Mets, eliminating them from the NLCS. Although it was a tough way to end such a great season, it still gives a lot for Cubs fans to look back on and celebrate.

The other day, Camden Depot’s fearless leader claimed, “we can be really optimistic and dream of a Yankees collapse, but we know those things rarely happen. (https://twitter.com/jsbearr/status/626793080264503296)” I was wondering whether this is in fact the case so I figured I would take a look at how division leaders at the end of July perform for the rest of the season.

The New York Yankees have won 26 World Series titles, which is more than any other team.

The Chicago Cubs are a Professional American Baseball Team that competes in the Sports and Entertainment Industry. Tom Ricketts and family bought the Chicago Cubs along with Wrigley Field from the Tribune Company in 2007. The Chicago Cubs are one of the oldest franchises to this day. They are known for their old school ballpark right in the middle of a neighborhood, and the fans are known to party. They tend to target males 16-60, but being such and old school team playing in such an old school ballpark they attract people of all races and ages. They haven’t won a World Series title since 1908, yet they are one of the most financially successful baseball teams in the world. Baseball is America’s past time so despite