Fattening Up Out of town last weekend for a wedding, and my are parents in town all this week. It’s hard to compose a coherent post on a full stomach and two or three glasses of wine (moral: ya gotta stay hungry and not quite as drunk in this racket, kid). My takes on Bill …
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Don’t Grieve for Him
On Monday, the Rookie of the Year Awards were announced, and the winners were no big surprise to anybody who’s kept up with online voting results such as the
Away with Jorge? The New York Times reports that the Yankees may be willing to trade catcher Jorge Posada in an effort to lower payroll. Despite being the top-hitting catcher in the American League in 2002, Posada is potentially expendable. Of the five players the Yanks have signed to weighty long-term contracts (Jason Giambi, Derek …
Re-Pete After Me Ever since the rousing ovation Pete Rose received at the World Series last week (during that godawful Memorable Moments ceremony, itself a new high in lows), writers have been weighing in on both sides of the Rose reinstatement/Hall of Fame issue. I don’t have much time or energy to tackle the arguments …
ThunderStruck If he’d lived to see it, Gene Autry would have declared himself Back in the Saddle Again. After 41 years and from beyond the grave, the Cowboy got the Monkey off his back on Sunday night. Mike Scioscia’s Lackeys did their bidding quite well (even his Molinas didn’t do too badly), and the Angels …
Game Seven If they’re going to play a World Series where your team isn’t involved, it may as well be an entertaining one of the seven-game variety. This year’s Series has lived up to that wish, right down to a shocking late-inning jaws-of-defeat reversal in Game Six by the Anaheim Angels. Now we’re left with …
Johnnie B. Paycheck and the Musical Chairs Back in elementary school, a teacher once told me that the surest way to get somebody to think of something was to tell them explicitly NOT to think about it. An order not to think about elephants produces nothing but deep thoughts about those pachyderms. So it’s been …
Hey Jude Jay Witasick is really making a name for himself in October baseball. Unfortunately for Witasick, that name is synonymous with futility. Tyler Kepner of the New York Times calls him “baseball’s St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.” Ouch. Tuesday night only added to Witasick’s sorry legacy. Summoned in relief of Livan …
K-Rod and Other October Surprises It certainly appears there’s something to my assertion that Angels phenom Francisco Rodriguez, now known as K-Rod, may indeed be the real Rally Monkey. During Sunday night’s epic slugfest, the Halos scored three more runs to back his three dazzling innings, coming from behind 9-8 to beat the Giants, 11-10. …
Looking for an Angle On the day of the first game of the World Series, I spent part of my morning working on my healthy Giants hatred. I watched a well-made HBO documentary called “The Shot Heard ‘Round The World”, about the 1951 pennant race which climaxed with Bobby Thomson’s home run. The hour-long doc …