Ranking Major League Baseball’s Managers.
What Objective Numbers can we use to grade MLB managers? (excerpted from the forthcoming book “The Men Who Killed Baseball” ©2022, all rights reserved) In 1904, the New York Giants won 106 games and the National League Pennant by 13 games. They were so good, they declined the opportunity to play in what would have…
The Myth of the “Maltese” Cross in the American Fire Service
The Firefighter’s Cross was not chosen because it had a historic connection to the Fire Service, but because it didn’t.
Let’s Get Rid of this “Thin Red Line” Bulls**t
Let us have as our symbols such things as we have earned…
Just Another Medic
This site was created as an outlet for my personal views and hopefully informed opinion regarding various aspects of the career to which I dedicated a large portion of my life, emergency services in general, disaster response and emergency medicine in particular. In a thirty-plus year career I have had the privilege of watching the…
First, Do No Harm: Covid-19, Conspiracy and Social Media
If you carry a title or initials after your name that implies some degree of expertise in medicine or public health policy, you have a responsibility to make sure that those things you support on social media reflect actual medical science and best practices…
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