by Mario Mergola | Jul 21, 2020
I’m an emotional person who romanticizes baseball. I am currently in a state of wild emotions. I’m giddy because the season is here. Seriously, the thought of Major League Baseball being played is enough to send me into a state of unbridled joy. I’m...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 27, 2020
I can’t believe the season is over. All year, I would write about how this season was going to be different from the ones we just saw. And it was. We were careful in some areas because of this, and it actually turned out to be the right decision. I had dropped...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 27, 2019
Ladies and gentleman, it is back. If you follow my writing anywhere – Twitter, really – then you know I’m involved in a lot of different projects. Almost all of them are experiments that will eventually be brought to Sporfolio. Some, I don’t...
by Mario Mergola | Mar 27, 2019
I think I went a little overboard. I love baseball. And I love projections. And predictions. And any other variant of the same word used for different purposes. I also love writing, and the days when I get to write about my predictions for a baseball team are among my...
by Mario Mergola | Mar 20, 2019
I constantly write about how much I love numbers and, quite frankly, that they tend to tell a better story than the teams. When it comes to March Madness, this is especially true. Because, no matter how much we try to hide it, most people who partake in filling out...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 31, 2018
This quarterbacks column is multi-part preview with a new quarterback – or set of quarterbacks being released daily. To read the introduction, please visit the first post in the series. Writing this column in the latter weeks of the preseason carries some risk...