Author: Skye Flanagan

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe time has come yet again for baseball Twitter to spend the next several months eviscerating the Baseball Writers Association of America, also known as the BBWAA, and rightfully so. Even though the deserved criticism will be intensified due to the lockout, year after year the BBWAA lets down the entire baseball world by ignoring deserving players in favor of creating a popularity contest, wasting their selections on “strategic” votes, and taking a delusional moral high ground so unprecedented that it appears nowhere else in sports. Why are these issues inherently problematic? Let me explain. In...

Reading Time: 5 minutesOn a beautiful Wednesday night in Kansas City, Missouri, I was in attendance at a Royals game. Excited to finally be in the ballpark again, I was having the time of my life. Eating delicious food, surrounded by thousands of strangers that for the next three hours would feel like my closest friends as we all cheered for a common goal. My excitement, delight, and jubilation to be back in the stands was quickly crushed into a million little pieces by one man. That one man called one of the worst games I have ever seen,...