google-document-embedder domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /var/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Happy New Year (Rosh Hashanah) to all my fellow Jews. Start loading up on the carbs in anticipation of Yom Kippur (by far my least favorite holiday, but actually my favorite at the same time…truly appreciate life). Anyway, I was supposed to be headed to Viera, FL today for All Florida Weekend, but a lot […]
Was it all an image issue? Was Boras Corp pissed that Buster Posey, a guy drafted later than Boras client, Pedro Alvarez, received the highest signing bonus in the history of the MLB Amateur Draft? At dusk on August 16th, reports stated that Posey received a $6.2 million bonus from San Francisco while Alvarez ended […]
I am heading up to Winston-Salem, NC today (a lovely 8+ hour drive) and will be attending Chris Paul’s PBA Celebrity Invitational tomorrow at the AMF Major League Lanes. I am going in support of Dynasty‘s client, Tommy Jones, who will be paired up with Miami’s own Dwyane Wade and I will be meeting up with Dynasty’s […]
Only three players in the first round did not sign with the teams that selected them in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft. The previous statement may not hold true if it is found that Pedro Alvarez and Eric Hosmer were signed after the deadline. That being said, of the three players who went unsigned, Aaron […]
Your baseball client’s contract is about to expire and you and your interns are crunching numbers to make sure that he is properly valued in the upcoming negotiations with various organizations. This client is a position player, so your standard statistics of batting average, home runs, RBIS, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage will be computated […]
You put in a quarter, pull the handle, and hope for the best. You may end up with the jackpot, but odds are you are going to fall victim to the law of averages. Vegas-style slots are set up so that more often than not, you will walk away without that quarter or any additional […]
The signing deadline for players selected by MLB organizations in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft has passed. On Thursday, I looked at which players had yet to sign, including Buster Posey, who was predicted to garner a rather large $7.5 million bonus. It turns out that he received much less: $6.2 million. The bonus is […]
I get heat from some of my friends for my interest in watching Olympic swimming. I am sorry that I prefer to watch Americans go for the gold over a pointless Monday night preseason NFL game. Anyway, I love Phelps, but nothing beats this headline from this past week: Two Jews and a black man […]
As Zak Kurtz pointed out earlier today, tomorrow is the signing deadline for those players selected by MLB organizations in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft. Besides Pedro Alvarez, many early selections remain unsigned with the deadline looming over their heads. Some will be content to forego signing with an MLB club and will attend a […]
Today is the first day of August. Fall approaches, but so does the signing deadline for teams to lock up players that were selected in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft. We are only fourteen days away from knowing which unsigned players will be returning/first going to college and who will forgo the college experience in […]