Some early Bracketology and offseason whimsy ...
In the West region….
#4 38 Pitches: The tourney’s most famous name, Curt Schilling, checks in with his extremely popular baseball blog where he tells it like it is according to the Schill. It’s hard to find a bigger name who actually writes his own material. Not many pics but you probably don’t want to see any skin on this site.
#13 BBTF Baseball Primer:
Welcome to the worst matchup of the tourney. It’s going to be nearly impossible to beat a Hall of Famer. However, you can tell your grandchildren. BBTF is yet another baseball geekfest. But they do it well. You’ll find a lively comments section here.
First of all: Are we all really sure that Schilling’s a Hall of Famer? HoM guys, care to weigh in? And second of all, we’re much, much more than a geekfest.
I think you all know what to do.
(Eds. Note - the link does have some banner ads featuring girls in swimsuits, so may be less-than-safe-for-work)
Other baseball blogs in the field after the jump…
West Region
No. 15 Athletics Nation vs. No. 2 ESPN’s True Hoop (NBA)
No. 5 Extra Bases vs. No. 12 Storming the Floor (College Hoops)
No. 6 Fire Joe Morgan vs. No. 11 Sactown Royalty (Sacramento Kings)
No. 8 Home Run Derby vs No. 9 You’ve Been Blinded
East Region
No. 4 Hardball Times vs. No. 13 Forum Blue and Gold (LA Lakers)
No. 6 Bugs and Cranks vs. No. 11 Bleacher Report (general)
No. 9 BPro Unfiltered vs. No. 8 Football Outsiders
Midwest Region
No. 2 MLB Trade Rumors vs. No. 15 Joe Sports Fan (general)
No. 5 Baseball Musings vs. No. 12 We are The Postmen (general)
No. 7 Baseball Analysts vs No. 10 Epic Carnival (general)
No. 8 Pete Abe’s LoHud Yankee Blog vs. No. 9 Golden State of Mind (Warriors basketball)
South Region
No. 4 Baseball Prospectus vs. No. 13 Larry Brown Sports (general)
No. 12 John Sickels’ Minor League Ball vs. No. 5 Need4Sheed (Rasheed Wallace/Pistons)
No. 6 MetsBlog vs. No. 11 The Sports Hernia (general)
Reader Comments and Retorts
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And if its site traffic we want, I'm sure someone has pictures of one of the Primates topless at SABR.
BBTF is yet another baseball geekfest. But they do it well.
so we're the Princeton of the blog world
(which would make Furtado Pete Carrill)
The committee clearly didn't recognize the strength of our mid-major non-conference schedule. We're the George Mason of this tournament!
The seedings are based on rankings at ballhype that are based on links between blogs
If the voting holds true then in 3 days BTF will be going up against Storming the Floor or Extra Bases if they start pulling in votes.
we should also be credited with bringing about bullpen mechanics
no matter how far ahead we get, let's NOT go into the four corners...
hope you filled out your bracket sheets early
goddam prevent defense
Get Blyleven on the phone...payback time!
Big-East Foot-ball?
We'll see what you have to say when Shady McCoy wins the Walker award in 3 years.
Edit: I am not a Pitt fan but he's just super nasty.
this site lists some sites; don't know if they're AFG
i mean it is all about almost nekkid slutty white chicks haven't had a meal in the past month busy getting them ugly fake plastic boobies
WHERE are all the almost nekkid slutty GUYS i ask you???
i demand equal converage. i mean un-coverage
I refer you to www.replacementlevel.com
you make it sound like that's a BAD thing
Thanks Jmac.
WHERE are all the almost nekkid slutty GUYS i ask you???
If you have time for a road trip in the spring, I can give you directions to my old frat house.
I've never met another Primate, Lisa, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you REALLY don't want BTF to be that site.
I really wish now we could bet on these like NCAA Tournament style.
The moneyline play here would be awesome.
Anyhoo, Sactown Royalty is a pretty good site, one of the better NBA ones out there.
Has Curt Schilling thrown a chair onto the court yet? You're being PWNED, loser!
Bring on BPro - time to reignite an ancient rivalry
i mean it is all about almost nekkid slutty white chicks haven't had a meal in the past month busy getting them ugly fake plastic boobies
you make it sound like that's a BAD thing
- well i ask you what could POSSIBLY be more boring then an almost nekkid skinny ass fake boobed white chick???!!!
SOSH-u
well i won't mention no names (don't want some guys to feel bad) but there is actually a couple hot looking guys right here on this here site. but i don't want to see them dressed up - i mean dressed down - like sluts because i wanna keep on luuuuvvvvving them for they minds...
well...any post by kevin talking about steroids, for one
don't want to see them dressed up - i mean dressed down - like sluts because i wanna keep on luuuuvvvvving them for they minds...
right...& I'm sure you read this site for the articles
Wait, so you're not against all performance enhancers? Awfully inconsistent of you.
That said, I've declared my tribal affiliation. Count another vote for BBTF.
Will Meatwad pick up the white courtesy phone please?
Best Regards
John
and I am shocked that people are complaining about seeing a womans bellybutton. sheesh.
must be an east coast thing.
I don't see any competition till then.
Maybe I have a script turned off or something, but i don't see how to vote.
I'll go back in a minute and poke around. A link would be cool.
it was a script ..
EDIT: anybody running 'Noscript', you need to turn on the Poll Daddy
everything about that sentence is just wrong. They need a better name.
That analysis is looking to be kind of Billy Packeresque in its awfulness.
Also, I broke a 229-229 tie by taking Athletics Nation over True Hoop.
I've never been to either site, but apparently the latter is affiliated with ESPN, so I felt like I had enough info to vote intelligently there.
Bah. Humor and baseball blogs are a terrible combination.
I'm glad that Sactown Royalty was mentioned. I'd love to trade Golden State of Mind and a Warriors blog to be named later for Sactown Royalty.
And I agree, fake boobs suck.
The ED. note was the only reason I clicked on the site...to see the skinny arse, faked boob women.
BTF could/should do the same thing, but with just baseball blogs. Actually this place is a natural to host it.
Hand out real primeys.
It is my guess that you have had your hand on maybe 25 to 75 boobs in your life.
and it is also my guess that at no time during said instances, were you thinking .. .. this sucks.
just a guess
Since then, however...
well i won't mention no names (don't want some guys to feel bad) but there is actually a couple hot looking guys right here on this here site.
Will Meatwad pick up the white courtesy phone please?
- grinning
pick up the phone your own self...
Gambling Rent Posted: December 17, 2007 at 07:20 PM (#2648376)
and I am shocked that people are complaining about seeing a womans bellybutton. sheesh.
- patiently
and you got a problem that i prefer slutty (almost) nekkid guys belly buttons exactly WHY?????
nekkid females are icky-poo. nekkid guys are hot
and i am texas coast, not east coast
Booey Posted: December 17, 2007 at 09:57 PM (#2648450)
Baseball Chick - I'm naked right now. Does that help?
- ida know, but hey i am willing to give you a chance. post a pic of you in a gstring wearing a shtt eating grin.
And I agree, fake boobs suck.
- really UGLY. i don't exactly got big boobs but what i got is all mine and i wouldn't get cut on even if it was free.
so the Poll Daddy doesn't even work.
I voted once at work and once at home.
464 - BBTF/Baseball Primer
464 - Fire Joe Morgan
437 - Need4Sheed
424 - Kissing Suzy Kolber
420 - Big Lead
407 - Awful Announcing
406 - The Hard Ball Times
400 - Deadspin
BBTF-TBL would be a solid Sweet 16 matchup.
I just went and voted about 10 times for BTF, and it never moved off of '489'
In Firefox 2.x:
Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy
Click "Show Cookies"
Type "bustedcoverage.com" into the search box
Click the cookie and hit the "Delete" button.
Go back to the page and vote to your heart's content. You're welcome. (This is an all-Linux and -Mac house. We don't do Windows, sorry IE users.)
(I voted once)
We are?
FJM? This country needs an enema.
In your face, Schilling! You can't deny us, we're too real for ya, we're too real for ya!
Indeed...our non-geek OPS+ is at least 150.
let's not get too cocky, folks, we're still waiting on the West Coast returns, and I think there are some disputed districts in Ohio to worry about.
FLORIDA
FLORIDA
FLORIDA
I think we're a bad matchup for Schilling because at any given time we probably have hundreds more people here (posting and lurking) than there are there. I don't imagine it's any more complex than that.
Entertainingly enough, BTF's best-ranking country isn't the United States.
Venezuela 12,005
United States 14,580
Thailand 23,173
New Zealand 36,858
Dominican Republic 56,361
Puerto Rico 71,554
Romania 95,643
Philippines 99,737
Panama 100,503
Canada 103,312
El Salvador 107,604
Lithuania 156,457
Greece 212,880
Japan 469,940
France 564,248
United Kingdom 707,941
We actually even get a higher pecentage of our traffic from Venezuela than Canada - 2.6% to 2.3%.
It's kinda odd really. By US rankings, there's not a lot of difference between BP (around 10,000), BTF (around 12,000) and HT (around 16,000), but the secondary countries are totally different. Both BP and HT does far better in Asia than BTF while BTF does far better in the Caribbean than the others.
Not really. Brand loyalty is based in long-term memory. I still refer to the site as Primer in casual conversation and have to re-think myself in order to type "BTF" when referencing in written discussions. That's how marketing works, really, and it's doubly effective when people have the old URL baked into their shortcut/RSS feed lists.
Guilty as charged. If I'm on an unfamiliar computer I type "baseballprimer" into Google to get here. I think it may be something to do with an aversion to that newfangled ".org".
Do I need to get off my own lawn?
(and always will be)
Time get our nerd on.
No, but you've got throw empty beer bottles at yourself.
464 - BBTF/Baseball Primer
464 - Fire Joe Morgan
437 - Need4Sheed
424 - Kissing Suzy Kolber
420 - Big Lead
407 - Awful Announcing
406 - The Hardball Times
400 - Deadspin
Now...
616 - BBTF/Baseball Primer
605 - Fire Joe Morgan
596 - Need4Sheed
551 - Kissing Suzy Kolber
545 - Awful Announcing
509 - Big Lead
515 - The Hardball Times
511 - Deadspin
Mothers don't count...
Na Na Na Na
Hey Hey
Goodbye
Schilling's Army has gained over 150 votes in the last hour!
It was 615 - 204
It's now 649 - 359
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