Introducing the Scalabrine Watch

This season the NBA has listened to one of my many thoguht and has started to track a players +/- during the course of individual games. Due to my intense dislike of Brian Scalabrine, I am going to track the inept deadbeat in a weekly post called The Scalabrine Watch.

Celtics 103 Wizards 83: +13
Scals didn't suck in this blowout and started the season off in strong fashion of +13 which ranked 4th best on the team behind the Big 3.

Game Stats: 20 Minutes, 4-9, 9 Points, 3 Rebounds, 3 Assists

Celtics 98 Raptors 95: +7
The C's pulled off a big overtime win against the Raptors, no thanks to the miniscule stats provided by Scals. However, he did have a +7 rating.

Game Stats: 16 Minutes, 0-2, 0 Points, 3 Rebounds, 1 Assist

Overall Week Performance: +20
Scals had a decent opening week when it comes to +/- which is annoying to me. Eventually you would have to think that he is going to begin to start playing poorly and start bring them down atleast a little bit.

Week Stats: 36 Minutes, 4-11, 9 Points, 6 Rebounds, 4 Assists

Overall Season Performance: +20
The Cs are 2-0 and beat the crap out of the Wizards on friday night so obviously when you win by 20 it's doubtful you could have a negative plus minus. However the +7 in the Raptors game for which he

Season Stats:18.5 MPG, .364 FG%, 4.5 PPG, 3 RPG, 2 APG

Numbers On Steroids: Mickey Mantle

Numbers on Steroids is a look at baseball players during the 90s to see if anything screams out at you. This week it's throwing a curve ball and looking at All Time Great Yankees. Players that we know did not take steroids to see if this gives a defense to any of the players 'convicted' by Numbers on Steroids. Time to look at my dad's favorite athlete of all time, Mickey Mantle. Averages Say: What's with the mysterious dip at 27 and then the uptick? At Bats Per Home Run Says: That's a mighty jump from 22 to 24 Explaining As If It Was the 90s If you take a look at the numbers there are two time frames which in the 1990s would be questioned. First would be the incredible leap he took from his first year in the big leagues to his first MVP season in 1956. His batting average jumped 50 points. His slugging percentage jumped 90 points and he hit 15 more homers than his previous high. This wouldn't merrit a conviction nowadays though because the young age he...

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Guest Post: Thoughts on Sabathia Signing

I asked Grutt what his thoughts were on the Sabathia signing and I thought his response pretty much nailed it. So here it is. I don’t know. Every year I get a little more disenchanted with baseball. Yea, it’s great we signed the top pitching free agent. But we were supposed to. No team was even in the ballpark of the Yankees offer yet they still needed to jump from the already ridiculous price of $140 million to $160 million to close the deal. Now I hear we are going to sign more pitchers who will also get large contracts and the position player gaps are still glaring. Each new, large contract just adds to the feeling that the Yanks are supposed to win it all. “I think we have a good chance this year.” That is a lost feeling. If they don’t win I’ll wonder why, like there has to be some other reason besides that it’s a sport you can never predict how things will work out and some years just aren’t yours to be won. If they win I will be pleasantly smug. It gets a little more...

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