Brian Wetzel

Steve Buscemi exposes how major Hollywood directors repeatedly betrayed him by secretly firing him and scrubbing his scenes from high-profile movies "I don't... I'm not that interested in getting leading parts, whatever that means. But I just want to play interesting characters that have some level of complexity to them." "One thing that became important for me is that the characters that I play are important to the story." "Because in the late '80s I worked on three movies that I was cut out of: Woody Allen's movie Alice, Stephen Frears' movie The Grifters, and Gus Van Sant's movie Even Cowgirls Get the Blues." "So they were all like these... I was like, all right, how do I avoid this happening? So you've got to look for parts that can't be cut out." "Did they deliver the news in the proper fashion? You didn't like show up at the premiere and realize one of those situations?" "No, no, I knew ahead of time, so that was good."

You have 3 votes. Which former managers/executives would you vote for?

Speaking of curveballs. Provenance of Cy Young’s curveball… 1863-67: Candy Cummings “invents” the curveball. 1875: Cummings plays for the Hartford Dark Blues with Tommy Bond. SABR article: "Hartford club divided the pitching load between Cummings and 19-year-old Tommy Bond, who played right field for the first eight weeks of the campaign while learning the curveball from Cummings. Bond mastered the pitch by mid-season..." 1880: Tommy Bond mentors John Clarkson. SABR article: "During his Beacon days he received some pitching tips from Boston Red Stockings pitcher Tommy Bond..." 1882-93: John Clarkson plays with Cy Young and gives him pointers on the curveball. SABR article: "Cy Young, who wasn’t a part of the Brotherhood struggle, later acknowledged Clarkson’s help in refining his game. According to Young’s biographer Reed Browning, 'Clarkson showed Young how to improve his curve ball, advised him on ways to sharpen control, and prodded him to think about pitching strategy.'” Bond to Clarkson being the weak spot here. One of these days I’ll jump in newspaper archives and try to find a source stating Bond taught Clarkson the curve explicitly.

I'll be blunt - the list of Center Field free agent options is absolutely disgusting...

Well, I know what I’m reading later today.

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People talk about Tyler Glasnow like he's some kind of top-shelf ace pitcher just because he is 6'8" and throws hard with a high strikeout rate, but here's his average season over an 11-year sample size: 4-3, 3.72 ERA, 1.2 WAR, 75.1 IP, 111 ERA+ Mostly a non-factor over 162

Getting something wrong about baseball (or basically anything) is inevitable. My goal with TJStats is not being correct all the time; it is being incorrect less often I was wrong about Chandler Simpson. This isn't the first time, and it won't be the last. It is how we learn.

23-year-old Jemima Wilkinson emerges from a stupor caused by Columbus Fever and declares that she has not survived, but that she has been reborn as an arcangel named “Publick Universal Friend.”

Junior Caminero has probably had one of the worst WS showings of all time. Not only did he call out his teammates, have a public temper tantrum after Simpson dropped that fly ball, but he was non existent at the plate all series.

A World Series team's ace just threw 4 innings and got pulled with 2 hits and 1 run allowed in a must-win game. A few one offs do not change the fact that the historical role of the starting pitcher has been lost.

I did some thinking of my own too. Miz has yet to have his postseason moment. Sure he’s still very young and will likely have a handful by the time his career is over, but this could’ve been the first. An innings worth of Miz right there as you guys mentioned in today’s Baseball Today has a far higher chance of winning than tossing anybody else out there.