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Welcome to my web log, published via Blogger Pro. Below are some links to recent baseball-related articles I found of interest, with my own two cents thrown in. Feel free to chime in via the comments link at the bottom of each post (powered by YACCS), or use my Contact page, or my email address, jay@futilityinfielder.com.Here are the weekly archives of this blog, assuming Blogger hasn't screwed up again. If an archive appears to be missing, you can try hunting for it via the subdirectory. Please note that because of repeated difficulties I've had with Blogger, I no longer recommend their service and will be taking steps to switch to a new one in the near future.
Saturday, March 15, 2003The SyndicateThe Cub Reporter, Christian Ruzich, turned me onto this site, which uses something called RSS to collect recent links from several blogs. As I'm prone to, I spent a couple hours fumbling around trying to get things to work so my RSS feed could be picked up by the site. In doing so, I came pretty close to taking my whole weblog down; any time I open the cans of worms that are my Blogger template or my archives, I might as well save the time and pull out a fistful of hair instead. I guess it's the price of progress, but the Blogger technology has its bugs that keep things adventurous.Anyway, the hope is that other bloggers will generate feeds as well, giving readers a great resource to view the recent work of several blogs at once. It's a great idea, in my opinion. If you're interested, drop a line to Christian's pal Mark McClusky and he can help you get set up. And if anyone else out there has an RSS page to which they'd like to add my site, the link is here. --posted by Jay Jaffe at 12:52 PM LinkTuesday, March 11, 2003The Man Who Lived Up to His NameA long-awaited piece of the Futility Infielder puzzle is now in place: my profile of 19th-century ballplayer Tony Suck, a man who truly lived up to his name. If Suck hadn't existed, somebody would have made him up. This two-part piece looks at Suck's unlikely career, then asks two burning questions: is he the worst ballplayer ever? And is he the origin of the derogatory term? The investigation begins here.--posted by Jay Jaffe at 12:31 PM LinkComments by: YACCS |