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2 weeks ago

NBA Tuesday: Was 2022 a “bad thing” for the Warriors? The current NBA regular season holds little interest to us, regardless of what our hometown Golden State Warriors are not doing. Generally, we learned as kids in the 1980s—when 16 of the 23 teams i…

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2 weeks ago

MLB Monday: Larry Doby, in historical content Opening Day is next week, so today’s MLB Monday is prepping for a lot of fantasy baseball drafts this week. We take time off from that today to consider the career of Larry Doby: our two-time…

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4 weeks ago

MLB Monday: The WBC is basically “Olympic” baseball, so why all the fuss? In long journalism careers—and shorters one, too, as historians—we have realized that what we write isn’t always the popular, trendy position(s) to take. So be it; facts over feelings, as it …

MLB Monday: The WBC is basically "Olympic" baseball, so why all the fuss? dailymcplay.com/2026/03/09/m... #MLB #WBC2026 #FollowtheMoney #TVRatings #SportsAmateurism #Olympics #SportsMediots #SportsFansAreSuckers

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1 month ago

MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1921 We are back again this week with the MNC Wednesday prequel miniseries, and after the 1922 doozy last week, we’re hoping for something a bit more calming this time out with the mythical nation…

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1 month ago

NFL Thursday: 2025 Awards Analysis Our first NFL Thursday miniseries returns today now that the 2025 NFL season is complete, and this will be the second-to-last time we brag that we nailed the Super Bowl matchup and winner a month i…

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2 months ago

Thursday Thorns: Guaranteed Contracts Are a Joke It’s time for another Thursday Thorns piece, as more and more the sports world just continues to disappoint us. What can we say? P.T. Barnum would have hated us. Yet the reality is that Barnu…

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2 months ago

MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1925 The MNC Wednesday miniseries got a little sidetracked in the last five months, so we apologize. But it’s a good time to re-visit the early days of college football and the mythical national c…

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2 months ago

MLB Monday: Pathetic Local Mediots in S.F. Today’s MLB Monday column looks at the evolution of the local media in San Francisco and its views of Barry Bonds. Remember, it was excellent local-media investigative reporting that blew ope…

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3 months ago

Wednesday Wizengamot: CFP Chased Dollars, Sacrificed Legitimacy, and Lost All Credibility It was only a matter of time, right? The Wednesday Wizengamot delivers the brutal truth here: Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma have no business being in the College Football Playoff based on inde…

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4 months ago

Monday Musings: Dishonest Sports Journalism Must End Over the weekend, we kept an eye on college football scores, as the College Football Playoff approaches in a few weeks. We always will be curious to follow the sport, even if we have divested ourse…

Monday Musings: Dishonest Sports Journalism Must End dailymcplay.com/2025/12/01/m... #NCAA #CollegeFootball #ESPN #SportsMediots #OhioStateBuckeyes #MichiganWolverines #RyanDay #CheatinginSport #NCAAOversight #SportsMythology #FakeSportsNews

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4 months ago

Saturday Smugness: Worthless Polls & Rankings We are starting a new “weekly” feature today: Saturday Smugness. We still will do NHL Saturday on occasion, when warranted, too, but this day also now provides other forms of “ent…

Saturday Smugness: Worthless Polls & Rankings dailymcplay.com/2025/11/22/s... #CollegeSports #CollegeFootball #CollegeBasketball #APPoll #SportsMediots #CFP #MarchMadness #Sabermetrics

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6 months ago

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2020s (So Far)? It’s been a hot minute since we worked on our MLB Monday miniseries on Gold Gloves. We’ve come to the end of it, though, for now, as we have reached the current decade in progress. The …

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6 months ago

Thursday Thorns: “Student Athletes” No More Our Thursday Thorns piece this week points out something kind of obvious: in the revenue-generating college sports these days, the athletes are no longer students, really, in the traditional sense.…

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6 months ago

WNBA Tuesday: Three players on the 2025 Indiana Fever were better than Caitlin Clark was in 2024, based on sabermetric analysis For this entry of WNBA Tuesday fun, we’re breaking down the 2025 regular season for the Indiana Fever, which resulted in a 24-20 record and the No. 6 seed in the postseason. However, everyone…

WNBA Tuesday: Three players on the 2025 Indiana Fever were better than Caitlin Clark was in 2024, based on sabermetric analysis dailymcplay.com/2025/09/16/w... #WNBA #WNBAHistory #WNBAPlayoffs #IndianaFever #AliyahBoston #KelseyMitchell #NatashaHoward #CaitlinClark #Sabermetrics #SportsMediots

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6 months ago

Wednesday Wizengamot: Justin Verlander’s Miracle Turnaround at Age 42 (again) We have discussed this before, but Justin Verlander probably is cheating. The Wednesday Wizengamot returns to examine his interesting turnaround in the second half of his age-42 season, when he sho…

Wednesday Wizengamot: Justin Verlander's Miracle Turnaround at Age 42 (again) dailymcplay.com/2025/09/10/w... #MLB #MLBHistory #SFGiants #JustinVerlander #BusterPosey #BobMelvin #BarryBonds #BruceBochy #TheHouseThatSteroidsBuilt #MLBPlayoffs #SportsMediots #FollowtheMoney #FanIdiocy #BandwagonFans

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6 months ago

WNBA Tuesday: Six Black Players Worthy of MVP We will not do our official WNBA Tuesday awards analysis for the 2025 season until it’s over and all the hardware has been handed out. However, it’s kind of clear right now who the MVP …

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7 months ago

Friday Funday (Redux): WNBA Stat Sheet Facts We have a second Friday Funday piece today, which is intended as a sticky piece of WNBA content for future reference. It involves looking at the sabermetric realities of Caitlin Clark, Veronica Bur…

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7 months ago

Friday Funday: Golden State & WNBA History We are back with more WNBA joy on Friday Funday as the Golden State Valkyries became just the second women’s expansion team to finish the season with a winning record—having secured a 23rd vi…

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7 months ago

Wednesday Wizengamot: Look in the Mirror, Angel Reese The Wednesday Wizengamot returns to pass judgment on Chicago Sky “star” Angel Reese. Evidently, she made some comments regarding the quality of her team/mates today: “I’m not sett…

Wednesday Wizengamot: Look in the Mirror, Angel Reese dailymcplay.com/2025/09/03/w... #WNBA #WNBAHistory #Overrated #Sabermetrics #WNBALeadership #AngelReese #ChicagoSky #CaitlinClark #SportsMediots #BandwagonFans

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7 months ago

WNBA Tuesday: Veronica Burton Has Carried the Valkyries This Season Today on WNBA Tuesday, we’re going to analyze the season for Golden State Valkyries guard Veronica Burton, through the lens of sabermetric value. We have followed the team’s entire inaugural …

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7 months ago

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2010s? [Part II] MLB Monday returns on Labor Day with this look at the 2010s: our Gold Glove analysis for each decade. This list is full of players who labored tirelessly without being rewarding properly for it (in…

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2010s? [Part II] dailymcplay.com/2025/09/01/m... #MLB #MLBHistory #GoldGloves #Sabermetrics #Underrated #SportsMediots #AdamEaton #AddisonRussell #JhonnyPeralta #KevinPillar #LeonysMartin #VictorRobles #WelingtonCastillo #ZackCosart

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7 months ago

Sunday Surmising: The Vegas-Bound Athletics Are Improving, Year by Year, As We Said The subject for today’s Sunday Surmising is the the MLB team that bottomed out in 2023 and has shown steady improvement since as it transitions to a new home: the former Oakland Athletics, a.k.a th…

Sunday Surmising: The Vegas-Bound Athletics Are Improving, Year by Year, As We Said dailymcplay.com/2025/08/24/s... #MLB #MLBHistory #OaklandAthletics #LasVegasAthletics #BandwagonFans #SportsMediots #MLBPayroll

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7 months ago

Thursday Thorns: We Told You Paige Bueckers Was Better Than Caitlin Clark Thursday Thorns always delivers the facts, and we rely a lot on sabermetric analysis for our positions on sports. Well, the data continues to come in showing that WNBA rookie Paige Bueckers is a be…

Thursday Thorns: We Told You Paige Bueckers Was Better Than Caitlin Clark dailymcplay.com/2025/08/21/t... #WNBA #WNBAHistory #WNBAROTY #PaigeBueckers #DallasWings #CaitlinClark #IndianaFever #Sabermetrics #SportsMediots

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7 months ago

MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1926 The MNC Wednesday miniseries continues with the prequel years, those before the onset of the Associated Press polling era that began in 1936. This season we explore today is odd, as the even the ex…

MNC Wednesday, The Prequel Miniseries: 1926 dailymcplay.com/2025/08/20/m... #NCAA #NCAAHistory #CollegeFootball #MythicalNationalChampions #Sabermetrics #AlabamaCrimsonTide #StanfordIndians #MichiganWolverines #SportsMediots

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7 months ago

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2010s? [Part I] Our Gold Glove analysis for each decade on MLB Monday returns today with a look at the 2010s. Sabermetrics really began to take hold in this decade when it came to awards voting—to the point of rid…

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2010s? [Part I] dailymcplay.com/2025/08/18/m... #MLB #MLBHistory #GoldGloves #Sabermetrics #Underrated #SportsMediots #AlexeiRamirez #AustinJackson #AlexGonzalez #BrettLawrie #ChrisYoung #DenardSpan #SeanRodriguez

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7 months ago

NBA Tuesday: 2025 Awards Analysis, Volume II Our second NBA Tuesday miniseries gets an update today, as the Oklahoma City Thunder won their first-ever league championship in crazy fashion, defeating the Indiana Pacers in seven games. We alrea…

NBA Tuesday: 2025 Awards Analysis, Volume II dailymcplay.com/2025/08/12/n... #NBA #NBAHistory #NBADPOY #NBAFinalsMVP #SGA #OKC #ShaiGilgeousAlexander #OKCThunder #EvanMobley #ClevelandCavaliers #IvicaZubac #LAClippers #Sabermetrics #SportsMediots

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7 months ago

NBA Tuesday: 2025 Awards Analysis Our original NBA Tuesday miniseries returns, perhaps a bit late in the summer, as the NBA Finals ended a long time ago. We do love revisiting this analysis every year, as it always offers us a chan…

NBA Tuesday: 2025 Awards Analysis dailymcplay.com/2025/08/05/n... #NBA #NBAHistory #NBAMVP #NBAROTY #Sabermetrics #SGA #ShaiGilgeousAlexander #Joker #NikolaJokic #OKC #OKCThunder #DenverNuggets #StephonCastle #SanAntonioSpurs #KelelWare #MiamiHeat #SportsMediots

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7 months ago

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2000s? [Part III] Our Gold Glove analysis for each decade on MLB Monday has never needed three installments, until now. We just keep running out of space in each analysis, so the reality is that defense has gotten b…

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2000s? [Part III] dailymcplay.com/2025/08/04/m... #MLB #MLBHistory #GoldGloves #Sabermetrics #Underrated #SportsMediots #AdamKennedy #BenZobrist #ChoneFiggins #ElvisAndrus #JasonKendall #KurtSuzuki #MarcoScutaro #BrendanRyan

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8 months ago

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2000s? [Part II] We continue our Gold Glove analysis for the 2000s on MLB Monday , exploring those players who deserved to win awards for their defensive prowess—but did not, ever, in their careers. However, there …

MLB Monday: Who Should Have Won Gold Gloves (But Never Did) in the 2000s? [Part II] dailymcplay.com/2025/07/28/m... #MLB #MLBHistory #GoldGloves #Sabermetrics #Underrated #SportsMediots #BillHall #BrandonInge #ChaseUtley #ClintBarmes #CraigCounsell #JasonBartlett #JoeCrede #PedroFeliz #TobyHall

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8 months ago

Thursday Thorns: Fallacies of “the pay gap in women’s sports” weaken the ethically correct argument We resurface with another Thursday Thorns column today. But … we’re reposting an article with minimal commentary from April 2024, which is still relevant today, sadly. We don’t li…

Thursday Thorns: Fallacies of “the pay gap in women’s sports” weaken the ethically correct argument dailymcplay.com/2025/07/24/t... #WNBA #WNBAHistory #TVRatings #SportsMediots #RevenueAnalysis #GenderEquity #CaitlinClark #BillieJeanKing