More Links Than Winks On Tuesday night I attended an early-evening birthday party for a friend, pre-empting my ALDS Game One viewing plans. Fortunately, I had the miracle of TiVo at my disposal, enabling me to time-shift my viewing seamlessly. All told, I saved myself well over an hour’s worth of commercials, pitching changes, pregnant …
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Prediction Pain Being a Writer of Sorts when it comes to baseball, I’m prone to offering predictions at times when others do so; monkey see, monkey do. Today’s fun comes as we look back at those predictions and see just how far off base they were. At the outset of the season, I made two …
The Chickens Are Rounding Third San Diego Padres owner John Moores endeared himself to baseball fans in the days prior to the strike deadline with a statement saying he was prepared to shut the game down for a season in order to get a favorable labor deal. Okay, “endeared” isn’t actually the proper verb; “made …
Beware the Naked Man Who Offers to Pitch Relief As we saw last week, there’s no telling what can happen once a fan runs out onto the field of play. This guy ran onto the field during the A’s-Mariners game on Tuesday night. Clearly, he misunderstood the concept of the term “winning streak”.
The Fragile Equilibrium of Unhappiness “They don’t have it this year” is Page 2 writer Bill Simmons’ simple eulogy for this year’s Boston Red Sox, writing of their absence of the inexorable IT of which winning ballclubs are made–luck and good timing, “mindless gimmicks” and “quirky stretches,” to use the writer’s own words. I’d planned …
Following the Script On Saturday, the Yankees wrapped up the AL East title, thus making official what had been a foregone conclusion since vanquishing Boston one last time on September 4. With a week left in the regular season and not much in the way of competition except those pesky Devil Rays, the big suspense …
Royster Strikes Out The Milwaukee Brewers are bad, downright awful, in fact. Having already lost over 100 games this season, they’re the worst team in franchise history–even worse than the 1969 Seattle Pilots (64-98). And even less likely to leave behind a bestselling epitaph. Their offense is pretty pathetic, last in the league in runs …
Clearing the Bases Here’s a handful of good links from around the web which I wanted to call your attention to before I get back to watching and writing about the Dodgers… • James Surowiecki writes the excellent
Stuck Inside Manhattan With the Dodger Blues Again I’ve come down with a case of Dodger Blue Fever. I stayed up until 2 AM Monday night sweating out the Dodgers-Giants result from the West Coast, and I’m prepared to do the same again tonight. With these heated rivals in a dogfight for the NL Wild …