We discussed the trading deadline, Billy Butler’s recent hot streak, the birth of #CountryBreakfast and read submissions of Rejected Royals Promotions on the air.  We also briefly discussed Troy “Royalman” Olsen’s inclusion in Wednesday’s Blog Your Way to the K event (which our own Ryan Wood will participate in as well).

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Ross’s full account of the birth of the Country Breakfast nickname for Billy Butler is available for your reading pleasure on Pine Tar Press.

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In 2003 a book was published by the highly acclaimed – and the ridiculously talented – Michael Lewis that changed the way the mainstream looks at baseball and baseball philosophies. It wasn’t an entirely groundbreaking venture, a lot of the theories and practices discussed and highlighted throughout the text are the same ones that Earl Weaver trumpeted in the 1970s. But with more media attention on professional sports now than ever before, the book opened a lot of eyes.

Baseball, more than any other business it seems, operates on the Good ‘ol Boy System where things that were done a certain way 40-50 years ago should be done the same way today. After all, if it worked for everyone in the 1970s when Baseball was great and pure and the focus of Americana, then there’s no reason to change that with any kind of information other than what we can see with our own eyes. It’s a “we do what we do because we do what we do” mentality. Baseball, as a business, was really quite terribly run. … [visit site to read more]