All About Baseball with Byron Copley
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MLB Should Be All Out of Gambling
With the recent indictments of Cleveland Guardians' pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luiz Ortiz, for throwing baseballs in the dirt to win bets for their partners, it appears that MLB is doing all it can t
post hoc ergo prompter hoc
This Latin phrase, translated to In English, means "after, therefore because of it." This fallacy in logic is all too often applied to the outcome of sporting events . It's been never more prevalent
Do Major League Baseball Owners Really Get What They are Paying For?
Not always. In this podcast, I identify two different 2025 "all-star" lineups by position -- one is stocked with underpaid players and the other with overpaid players. The point: demonstrate that owne
Calling it Quits as an Umpire
After 20-plus years of umpiring youth baseball, I'm calling it quits as suddenly as I entered the "profession" when I volunteered to umpire my son's ball game because the assigned umpire didn't show.
Big Little-League Mistakes
On October 10, 2025, the Seattle Mariners defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of the American League Divisional Series (ALDS), in part because the Tigers committed two critical "little-league" mista
Dick Bartell Held on to the Baseball
In Game 7 of the 1940 World Series, in the seventh inning with the Detroit Tigers clinging onto a tenuous 1-0 lead, Tiger shortstop Dick Bartell inexplicably held the baseball in his right hand as Red
The 97-Win Threshold is not as Easy as it Appears
Winning 97 games in an MLB season "only" requires any team to win three of every five games. This podcast, influenced by a similar observation that I saw online, asked the question "is it really that
Replay: The Honorable Sacrifice of Jack T. Jamison
Occasionally, I will replay posts that I think bear a second listen (or a first if it was missed). Jack T. Jamison (not his real name) is one of 4,486 Major League Baseball players who never got
Data is too Dated to Remember
The deluge of data that is delivered to viewers and spectators during a given MLB game, whether in person, on television, or even in a radio broadcast, renders the actual events on the field as specim
A Collapse of Epic Proportions (Reprise)
What a difference a week makes. On September 8, the Tigers were 9.5 games ahead of Kansas City. Now, the 2025 Detroit Tigers, as of this day, are in the EXACT same position as the 1964 Philadelphia Ph





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