0-3…  .000..  3 Men Left on Base…  1 Strikeout..
That was the line of your 2008 NL All Star Last Vote Winner… Corey Hart. Those are appalling numbers. Not only that.. but he failed to throw out Justin Morneau at home plate in the bottom of the 15th inning.
How about the other final vote contestant who [...]

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Today Philly.com posted an article detailing how statistics guru ERIC SEIDMAN believes Burrell should be in the All Star Game. Seidman states that Burrell’s WPA (Win Probabilty Added) of 3.24 is second in the league next to only Lance Berkman!
More evidence that Burrell is a shoe in for MVP and was the biggest snub of [...]

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While Chase Utley cusses out Met fans at the All Star Game (good for you chase!), Pat the bat is quietly accruing the accolades that he deserves and beginning his run at the NL MVP award.
Case and Point:
The kind folks over at Beerleaguer voted our very own Mr. Pat Burrell the first half MVP!!!
They obviously [...]

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It is a sad day here at the Burrell for MVP campaign headquarters. Sure, we had been prepared for Pat not making the All-Star game, but it still hurts when it happens. The saddest thing of all is that the whole final fan vote was clearly a beauty contest. During the voting [...]

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As we’ve stated on this blog time and time again, Pat’s first step to the MVP award for 2008, begins with the MLB All-Star game. The geniuses over at MLB have realized that the insane sport fans of this country are snubbing maybe the best ball player in the league this year and are graciously [...]

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The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a nice little story about how Pat isn’t the shoo-in for the All-Star game you might expect. This despite the fact that he “entered last night ranked first among National League outfielders in home runs (20), on-base-plus-slugging percentage (.998), and slugging percentage (.584) and second in on-base percentage (.414).” [...]

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Try to imagine yourself as a major league rookie. You’re a starting pitcher, in your fourth career start, playing the Phillies, your arch league rival. Imagine you’ve just breezed through the first inning. Your stuff is electric. Your fastball is burning up the radar gun and your curve is even making [...]

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A good leader always keeps his head held high. A great leader plays just as hard in desperate times as he does in joyous times. An MVP candidate, which no one in the NL but Pat Burrell can claim to be, excels during the darkest hours of the darkest night.
When I claim that [...]

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Tuesday’s game is over, and existence still exists, yet Jack Cust and Pat Burrell, who we proved are the same person, met face to face. How can this be? Are the statements about meeting yourself at a point in time and time ceasing to exist untrue? Further evidence was even given at [...]

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Will the universe as we know it end tomorrow? Quite possibly so says noted time travel expert and avid comic book collector Linford Buzzard. People are wondering why someone would even consider this to be a possibility. It’s simple, explains Linford, the laws of time travel state that meeting [...]

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