Friday, December 14, 2007

Now They Got Me on Tee Vee [updated] 

Words I never thought I'd utter: "Hi, I'm Jay Jaffe, and I'm here to be a guest on Inside Edition."

Anybody who wants to see my suddenly-in-demand expertise in the field of yapping about steroids in baseball chopped up into itty-bitty soundbites can tune in to Monday morning's episode of Inside Edition. In the New York market, it will air at 11:30 AM on Fox (channel 5). The segment was originally taped for Friday evening, and I touted it here as such, but the producer who rushed away with the tape apparently didn't beat the production deadline, and I lost out to President Bush, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, and Bill Madden in the "Dark Day for Baseball" segment.

If you're unfamiliar as to where the show airs in your market, see here.

And yes, I believe this constitutes my national network TV debut. As Mel Allen would say, "How about that!"

Rather than write coherently about what transpired with Thursday's Mitchell Report release and its aftermath, and thus threaten my deadlines even more, I got links to:

• a broad spectrum of worthwhile takes by baseball historian John Thorn, BP colleague Nate Silver, BP colleague Joe Sheehan, Lohud's Pete Abraham, New York Sun columnist Tim Marchman, Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke*, Sports Illustrated Dot Com, Tom Verducci, ESPN's Mark Fainaru-Wada, Howard Bryant, Jon Weisman, the OC Register's Mark Whicker, Allen Barra and the recommendations of the report itself.

*not actually worthwhile, I just like watching him eat crow.

• Biz of Baseball's index to the players named in the report, for those of you wanting to find the allegations against your (least) favorite player

• Yanksfan vs Soxfan's kick-asterisk guide to expanding our repertoire of means to annotate the record books

Labels: steroids, TV

--posted by Jay at 5:05 PM LINK

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Roid Rage Radio 

I don't love talking about steroids in baseball, but my services seem to be in demand when the big stories break. Lacking the good sense to run screaming in the other direction, I try to bring some rational discussion to an issue that generally provokes irrational responses. With the Mitchell Report set to hit the streets at 2 PM Eastern today, I've done nine Fox News Radio affiliate hits around the country this morning, and I've been invited into the studio to be part of FNR's anchored coverage this afternoon as the Mitchell press conference takes place. If you can bear to listen to this three-ring circus, check your local FNR affiliate between 2 PM and 3:30 PM Eastern and you might just hear me try to get a word in edgewise.

And yes, there are huge names on the list, which was just leaked to me. Yankees. Red Sox. MVPs. Cy Youngs. Scrubs. Nobodys. Major head cases.

All hell is about to break loose.

Labels: radio, steroids

--posted by Jay at 11:23 AM LINK

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

JAWS attacks the Class of 2008 

Poking my head above water for a few hours... the first installment of this year's JAWS analysis of the Hall of Fame ballot is up at Baseball Prospectus. In this one we cover seven infielders, including Mark McGwire, Alan Trammell, and the Lil' Bastard, Chuck Knoblauch. I'll be hosting a chat starting at 2 PM Eastern and discussing the ballot and perhaps some of the winter moves.

--posted by Jay at 1:42 PM LINK