Minda Haas

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Name: Minda Haas
Date registered: July 21, 2010

Biography

Lifelong Royals fan, for some reason.

Latest posts

  1. Work in progress: the smoky apartment — November 15, 2021
  2. Revisiting my post-concussion story — December 28, 2015
  3. PHOTOS: Every Omaha Storm Chasers pitcher (2015) — September 27, 2015
  4. PHOTOS: Every Omaha Storm Chasers position player (2015) — September 27, 2015
  5. Francisco Pena on how to make friends in the dugout — July 1, 2015

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Oct 17

Royals farewells: Herges, Lerew and Rupe

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Matt Herges, pitchin'. Photo by me.

This past week, the Royals parted ways with three pitchers who spent part or all of last season in Omaha: Matt Herges was released; Anthony Lerew and Josh Rupe became free agents. Here’s a look back on what they did for the Royals. Matt Herges (released) Herges signed as a free agent with the Royals …

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Oct 12

Re: Will Carroll and stat geeks

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I coldheartedly calculated the variables necessary to make this image happen. Because I am a robot.

I knew I wanted to respond to Will Carroll’s grumpy tirade against number-crunching baseball geeks. But first, I had to watch Jeopardy. Because I’m a nerd, I like to keep a tally of my correct answers and figure out how much money I could’ve won if I had been the one on the Jeopardy set. …

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Oct 07

Regarding Roy

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RoyTweet

This was in the first inning. I love being right.

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Oct 04

Vote Royals! Round Two

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The Omaha Royals are seeking a new name as they move into their new home. The field of 24 mostly-terrible team names has been narrowed to NINE mostly-terrible team names. The name that doesn’t suck? The Omaha…. ROYALS. Go vote Royals.

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Oct 02

Couple of things: espnW and FanzGraphs

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FanzGraphs

I took a break from staring at a blank Word document* last night to check in on Twitter, and noticed that Keith Law was arguing with some dude. I don’t really know what the origin of the fight was, but at one point the dude said, “Fan opinion is more often than not a true …

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Oct 02

Congratulations Bruce Chen!

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C'MON, CHEN! I was going to put in the video, but it was removed from YouTube. Grrrr.

I have few things to say tonight, other than to be extremely happy for a very cool human being. My life has been vastly more entertaining with Bruce “C’MON CHEN” Chen in it, and I’m thrilled that his final start of this season could be like this. Nine innings, two hits, zero runs, two walks, …

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Oct 01

ESPN Women?

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ESPN man

Because women can’t understand sports media that’s geared toward men! The incomparable Pete Gaines alerted me to the impending existence of ESPNW, a version of ESPN that will cater to women and their tiny brains, because “women see us as an admirable brand that has authority. But they see us as their father’s brand, or …

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Sep 29

Bus Leagues Baseball MiLB postseason awards!

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For some reason, the good fellas at Bus Leagues Baseball decided I was qualified to vote in their Minor League Baseball postseason awards. Today, they published the results of the Relief Pitcher of the Year voting. Please to click. SPOILER ALERT: There’s a Royal in there.

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Sep 24

Saves per win

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Captain Jack. Photo by me, 2010

After the Royals wrapped up win number 63 tonight, fans everywhere EXPLODED with joy. The Royals can’t lose 100! ….OK. The joy wasn’t that great. But it was a win for the team, and another save for Soria. That’s 41 saves for Soria in 63 wins for the team. Commenter Gus Zernial at Royals Review …

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Sep 23

The things in my backpack

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At my mostly-dormant non-sports blog, I wrote a quick post on why it’s really, REALLY good that I didn’t happen to get struck by a car today.

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