Man Bites Dog: Jay Links Post I generally stay away from referencing the New York Post because I find their tabloid mentality and the politics behind it so reprehensible. But two articles today got my attention. The first one is about Mets co-owner Nelson Doubleday’s accusations that baseball cooks its books to hide profits. Doubleday …
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Cyclones, Hurricanes, and No-Hitters, Oh My! Last Friday night may qualify as the most surreal night I’ve ever had at a ballpark, even though it was one of the more short-lived. My co-worker Lillie had organized a trip to see the Brooklyn Cyclones play at Keyspan Park, a colorful little ballpark nestled in the middle …
Chick Hearn, RIP Whether or not you’re a basketball fan, if you’re a lover of the language of sports, you should note the passing of Chick Hearn, the Los Angeles Lakers’ longtime play-by-play man. Hearn, who died on Tuesday at the age of 85, spent 42 years calling Lakers game (including an incredible 3,338 consecutive …
Excccccelent News The Twins Geek (John Bonnes) pointed me and the rest of his readers in the direction of this article at Sports Central, comparing Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad to that tent-fingered embodiment of animated evil, Montgomery Burns. “Who else could represent everything Pohlad stands for?,” writes Ryan Noonan. “Mr. Burns is an old, …
Catching Up with Coney David Cone has had an interesting season on the fringe, but then David Cone has always kept things interesting–whether he’s at the top of his game or the bottom. The New York Observer, that strange pink media-focused weekly, caught up with Cone in a front-page feature last week, discussing his whereabouts …
The Goddamn Drinking Bird Mike Mussina got shelled against the Texas Rangers the other night, giving up 7 runs and 11 hits in only 3 innings. Most embarrassingly, Mussina tied a major-league record by allowing six doubles in one inning. A guy could get whiplash watching all of those balls fly over his head. The …
Pulling the Trigger on Payton Nobody hates sharing their first name with a fundamentally unsound ballplayer toiling in the same city more than I do. So I let out a good whoop when the Mets finally, mercifully pulled the trigger on a deal which sent Jay Payton to Colorado on Wednesday. I never understood why …
Baseball’s New Sad Lexicon Barely three weeks after he was traded from the Florida Marlins to the Montreal Expos, Cliff Floyd was traded again, this time to the Boston Red Sox. Thus he’s completed an unseemly journey between three teams linked by this past offseason’s franchise-manipulating shenanigans. Recall that current Red Sox owner John Henry …
The “Where Are They Now” Files A good friend of my girlfriend, a Yankee fan living out in Los Angeles, wrote me to suggest a “Where Are They Now” piece on the former Yankees who scattered to the four winds after last year’s World Series. So it’s to her, an avowed Chuck Knoblauch fan (she’s …
The Smart Stuff
There’s a lot of smart writing out there about the current state of the game with regards to the labor situation and the lawsuit against Bud Selig. At the risk of sounding overly didactic, I think every baseball fan who wants to have an argument about the state of the game with regards to money …