Miguel Number Sixty One Sunday’s contest between the Yankees and Chicago White Sox was my final regular-season game at Yankee Stadium. But with thunderstorms looming beforehand and nothing much at stake for either team, I told my brother and fellow ticketholder Bryan that I’d be just as happy if the game were rained out and …
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Oh Brother, More Trivia On the subject of brothers, my own bro Bryan, who lives here in NYC, offered up a trivia category awhile back which we’ve both been pondering: former Cy Young award winners who are convicted felons. Bryan seems to recall the original question (passed on via his boss) stating that there were …
Barnes-storming I had a late brainstorm on my Seven Starts for Seven Brothers piece (see below), which was to go back and check the game story of the Martinez matchup over at the Nando Sportserver to see if the other pairs of brothers were mentioned then (the Sportserver has a very useful archive which goes …
Seven Starts for Seven Brothers Mike of Mike’s Baseball Rants has been on a quest ever since the brothers Benes–Cardinal Andy and Cub Alan–faced each other as starting pitchers last week. According to several news reports, the Benes boys are the seventh pair in major league history to square off, with the most recent duo …
One Year Later I just returned from Tuesday night’s Yankees-Orioles ballgame, a mercifully short, virtually split-squad affair for the Yanks. This, the second game of a day-night doubleheader against the Orioles clocked in at 2 hours, 12 minutes and was won by the Yanks 3-1, despite Enrique Wilson and Alex Arias (the middle infield of …
A Few Quick Hits for a Blue Monday Just a few articles I’ve been meaning to link to before they grow stale: • The Twins Geek, John Bonnes, has a good little piece about the statistic OPS, a handy stat which stands for On Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage. OPS has over the past few …
Got a Mind to Ramble Call me a smug Yankees fan for saying so if you want, but the meaningful part of the Yanks’ regular season is over. I had the pleasure of attending the finale Wednesday night, as the Yanks, behind a two-run opposite-field homer from Jason Giambi and a gritty performance by Andy …
It’s One of Those Weeks… …where I haven’t had much time to write in this space. Paying at the back-end of my vacation, alas, with some major deadlines at work looming over the next several days, and a few ballgames mixed in to boot. So if the frequency of my postings continues at its slow …
One Happy Camper When I returned to civilization–as much civilization as Pinedale, Wyoming allows, at least–last Thursday after five days in the woods, I was disappointed to find that the players and owners still hadn’t reached an agreement to avert a strike. Disappointed, but hardly surprised. After all, what’s a labor crisis without an 11th …
See You On the Other Side I’ve reached my pitch count. My past three weeks of work have been high-stress, with long hours, longer streams of four-letter words, and a few days of broken A/C during a heatwave thrown in for good measure. It’s a perfect recipe for needing a vacation. Fortunately that’s what I’m …