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  • Opening Day Thoughts

    Hello everyone and happy Opening Day! It’s been over a year since I last posted anything to this blog or updated the website. The past year has been a whirlwind for me and has brought a lot of life changes and new challenges that have taken up a large percentage of my time. With that…

  • Baseball and the Presidents

    Baseball is as American as pickup trucks and Kansas City Barbecue. Few things represent the United States as clearly and effortlessly as the game and while it very well may have been invented in England, (the origins of baseball are not 100% confirmed to have been American) it has long been adopted as “America’s Pastime”.…

  • The Oakland/Las Vegas/Salt Lake City/San Francisco Athletics

    Once upon a time, Oakland, California was a beautiful garden in the bright bloom of American sports. 1970s Oakland saw three World Series wins, an NBA Finals win, a Super Bowl victory, five AFC Championship appearances, five NBA playoff appearances, and two ALCS appearances from the Raiders, Warriors, and A’s. All of that happened before…

  • 2024 MLB Season Predictions

    Hello Shutimers and welcome to a new year of baseball. On opening day 2023, I gave my predictions of which teams and players would have big years, who would win awards, and which club would win it all in October. It didn’t end well. So what better way to kick off 2024 than doing the…

  • Shohei’s Trip to Toronto and the Destruction of Baseball

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all reading this post! Things on this site have been extremely slow with the busyness of the Holidays lately. Shutime will see a lot of changes in 2024, with a huge emphasis on posts here. I’m planning to have at least one post on here each week,…

  • The Phillies are Destined to Win the World Series

    I’m writing this the morning after the Philadelphia Phillies knocked off the Atlanta Braves in 4 games in the 2023 NLDS. This will likely be a long post, but if you like baseball and/or have watched any amount of the 2023 postseason I promise it won’t be a total waste of time. This one’s for…

  • An Upside-Down Year of Baseball

    For those of you who don’t know or haven’t followed the MLB the past couple years, there’s quite a few teams that have been pretty consistently lackluster. Unlike the NFL, where a team who finishes in last place wins the division the next year nearly every season, (that’s true by the way) baseball teams typically…

  • Correcting Baseball History

    Major League Baseball has been filled with glorious triumphs and all-too-often unexplainable miracles that win a game at the last second in the most dramatic way possible. Think of David Freese’s 2011 World Series Game 6 or Kirk Gibson’s ’88 World Series Game 1. It has also been filled with its share of heartbreak. This…

  • How Much Money Does Shohei Ohtani Deserve?

    In 2019, Mike Trout signed the largest contract in Major League baseball history and the second largest contract in American sports history. A whopping $426.5 million dollars over 12 years will go to what many have called the greatest baseball player of all time. This contract pays trout 35.5 million per year which equates to…

  • Welcome to Shutime

    Hello. Thanks for checking out my silly website and baseball blog. It means a lot to me that you made it to the internet to check out some of this content rather than just social media. It would also mean a lot to me if you entered your email and subscribed to post updates! These…

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