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  • Relegation in Baseball 30 Comments

    If we're talking about ways to shake up baseball, I've got a pretty off-the-wall idea. It's adding relegation (or tiered leagues) to baseball. Here's one way it could ...

    The Cubs’ 40 Man Roster No Comments

    This is the Cubs’ 40-man roster. Links to individual player posts (when available) are included. The Cubs’ Player Page is used if I don’t have a Better Know a Cub ...

    I Miss Schultz Already 41 Comments

    Warning: This post barely mentions the Cubs and even then only in a tangential manner. It will also contain what I can only assume will be a nauseating amount of sentimental nonsense. ...

    Post Deadline Open Thread 123 Comments

    We all want to thank you for helping make the last week to 10 days the busiest we've had yet. We've had a few days in that span that are among our 5 busiest. We passed our busiest ...
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    A few things that don’t make sense 111 Comments

    Carl Crawford and a prospect to the Marlins for Hanley Ramirez and Heath Bell is something that Bob NIghtengale is suggesting is in the works that doesn't make the least bit of ...
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    OV Contest mid-season update 125 Comments

    At the beginning of the season we started an over/under contest that would take wouldn't reveal a winner until the end of the season.  People chose whether a player would end ...

    Soto back off the DL No Comments

    Catcher Geovany Soto has a warm welcome back to look forward to, as he has just been taken off the disabled list and has been cleared to play, we're reliably informed by SBNation. ...
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    Our Dreamhost Review (they suck!) 10 Comments

    A few months ago we noticed during our busiest times the site would slow down considerably resulting in the occasional error. It became clear that our VPS (virtual private server) would ...
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    Site may be offline this weekend 44 Comments

    We just wanted to let you know that we are changing hosts as Dreamhost has been one fail after another since we joined. We'll be making the move this weekend so I wanted to let ...
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    An Obstructed View Contest: Enter Now And Win Big 59 Comments

    Over the course of the offseason we've published the various projections for players and have been calculating an average with them. One thing we like to talk about is whether or ...
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    This is a year 171 Comments

    A year ago today we joined together to start Obstructed View. We could write about our individual thoughts over the last year, but a blog is a community. We've published over 730 ...
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    Obstructed View on WordPress 5 Comments

    We're now using WordPress as our blogging platform. The comments component we used on Joomla had not been updated even though multiple new versions of Joomla had been released. ...

    Jerry Angelo Fired, Mike Martz Resigns, Cookie Monster Gets Giant Cookie 18 Comments

    Because this day calls for it: And this works too:
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    Thank You 19 Comments

    I spent about 30 minutes writing something that said the only thing I wanted to say: thank you. No reason to spend that much time so I deleted it. Maybe this would have been better ...
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    Chicago Media Mourns Bears Loss By Mocking Steve Bartman For Some Reason 110 Comments

    How can you tell the difference between our local mainstream media writers and meatball sports radio callers? That’s not the start of a joke, I’m seriously asking. Obviously, ...

    Wanna help on a Big Ten Blog? 3 Comments

    wv23 who unfortunately shut down my favorite Cubs blog on the internet quite awhile back is running a Big Ten blog with another guy. I’ll quote wv23. hey all - mb21 has graciously ...

    Still blogging about Jerry Sandusky on a Cubs blog 27 Comments

    Mercurial Outfielder has a really good article up on The NonSequitor that’s well worth the read.

    More Thoughts on the PSU Sex Scandal 140 Comments

    Last night I was thinking about the PSU Child Rape Scandal. One of these days I’ll stop thinking about it, but I don’t know when that will be. One of the things that has ...

    Penn State Sex Scandal 290 Comments

    Figured since people are interested in discussing it that we may as well have a thread on Unobstructed Views about it so we don’t litter all the others with talk about old men ...

    An Interview with Bill James 349 Comments

    What the hell do you say about Bill James? No introduction is necessary, but not having one seems lame. It’s Bill James. Obstructed View: You’ve mentioned in recent years ...