by Deb Seymour ~ July 14, 2022 Someone remarked to me last week that “baseball isn’t like hockey or basketball or football or soccer, which are team sports.” Baseball, the claim went, “is an individual sport because pitchers pitch individually, players take at-bats individually, and all of them make a lot of the plays inContinue reading “It’s a Team Sport — Or is it?”
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The Evolution of a Sports Fan
by Deb Seymour ~ June 28, 2022 Every sports fan, the world over, has their own story about how they evolved into a fan of the sports they care about. It doesn’t really matter where you grew up; if you like sports and either play a sport or just enjoy watching it, you’ve got aContinue reading “The Evolution of a Sports Fan”
Playing Hardball with Softball
by Deb Seymour ~ June 1, 2022 Although often mistaken as being baseball, just played with a different ball — softball is its own sport, with its own rules. In fact, although there’s only one game of baseball (with some rules varying from country to country, mostly in minor ways), there are two major typesContinue reading “Playing Hardball with Softball”
Buck Showalter and His Upgraded Mets
by Deb Seymour ~ April 19, 2022 When hedge fund mogul Steve Cohen acquired the New York Mets, expectations for the team by both the fan base and the baseball world in general shifted considerably from where they were entrenched during the regime of the previous ownership. Cohen is a baseball fan, and a MetsContinue reading “Buck Showalter and His Upgraded Mets”
The Yankees: Big Payroll, Not Enough Superstars?
by Deb Seymour ~ March 23, 2022 If you were asked to name the most sabermetrics-driven team in Major League Baseball, you’d probably say it’s either the Oakland Athletics or the Tampa Bay Rays. The former team had a book and movie dedicated to their use of the art and science of sabermetrics; the latterContinue reading “The Yankees: Big Payroll, Not Enough Superstars?”
The Many Faces of Derek Jeter
by Deb Seymour ~ March 1, 2022 Back in 1995, when the Yankees called up a 20-year-old Derek Jeter for the first time to the major league team, there were noises about him being some kind of wunderkind. Yankee fans had already heard about this kid from Kalamazoo, Michigan (who had been born in NewContinue reading “The Many Faces of Derek Jeter”
Keeping the Fans in the Game
by Deb Seymour ~ January 23, 2022 Just so I don’t lose you before I even start: No, this isn’t going to be yet another column on how the pandemic’s been correlated with a drop-off in sports viewership for the major sports. And how television networks and streaming platforms have been trying everything from theContinue reading “Keeping the Fans in the Game”
Some of the Best Sports Moments of 2021
by Deb Seymour ~ December 31, 2021 It’s a trifle trite to write a story about the best sports moments in a given year — but in this second Covid-19 impacted year, we were fortunate enough to nevertheless experience some of the better moments in recent sports history. There was the delayed Field of DreamsContinue reading “Some of the Best Sports Moments of 2021”
What Makes Us Root for the Teams We Do?
by Deb Seymour ~ December 14, 2021 To paraphrase a famous writer: it is the best of times, it is the worst of times. MLB is currently in a lockout; MLS just completed its season with a championship by the New York City Football Club; the NFL is starting to gear up for the playoffsContinue reading “What Makes Us Root for the Teams We Do?”
What Does “MVP” Mean in Sports?
by Deb Seymour ~ September 28, 2021 In the product development/investment world, “MVP” has a specific connotation — it’s minimum viable product. Essentially, in new product development and investment, investors will often want a product to have been consumer tested as being at least minimally viable for use before they invest in the product orContinue reading “What Does “MVP” Mean in Sports?”
Big Apple Bite Sports 