TV, radio, print, web… I ain’t kidding about the multi: • As I’ve said for years, I recognize only one six o’clock, and it’s not the one with the milkman. The people involved with promoting Baseball Prospectus 2009 see things differently, however, and so it was that I had a car waiting at 5:50 AM this …
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Call off the search party. It’s been nearly three weeks since I posted, and in that span I’ve been swallowed up whole by the Baseball Prospectus 2009 book tour and the Fantasy Baseball Index Spring Update deadlines, a brutal schedule around which I’ve salted 10 radio hits and two TV appearances as well as a …
In the end, after no shortage of drama, we got our Yankees tickets: Just moments before I embarked for the Baseball Prospectus 2009 Baltimore whistle stop earlier this week, I got a call from my friend Nick, the “commissioner” of our aggrieved group of Yankees partial-plan ticket holders. Two weeks after turning down the team’s …
Blogrolling, the third-party add-on to this site which maintains the links you see at left, recently returned from a lengthy stay on the disabled list. The code has been completely re-written, but as I’m just discovering, not all the kinks have been worked out. Instead of alphabetizing the links, they now appear in the order …
I’ll be appearing on WSCO 1570 AM in Appleton, Wisconsin this afternoon at 5:05 Eastern, 4:05 Central to discuss the Brewers as part of Baseball Prospectus 2009’s promotional tour. You can listen to the streaming webcast here if you’re out of range.
Not to tread on the five posts I’ve put up over the past two days, but I just wanted to call attention to my first appearance on the Baseball Prospectus 2009 bookstore tour: March 10, 7 PM: Clay Davenport, Steven Goldman, Jay JaffeBarnes & Noble @Johns Hopkins University3330 St. Paul StreetBaltimore, MD 21218 (map) Also, …
Friend, colleague and stadium shell game expert Neil deMause has been flexing his journalistic muscles by keeping up with the Yankee Stadium ticket beat(down), and generously salting his reports with a few choice quotes from yours truly. Following up his initial report for The Village Voice, last week he unearthed some choice euphemisms from Yankees’ …
Another one of my Baseball Prospectus pieces syndicated on ESPN Insider, this one on trying to quantify what the absences of Alex Rodriguez and other stars would cost their teams in terms of runs and wins: When the news on Alex Rodriguez’s hip injury broke last week, the Baseball Prospectus crew brainstormed a few possible …
Friday’s Baseball Prospectus chat was one of the most enjoyable ones I’ve done in recent memory, the happy coincidence of a fun time of year, a good batch of questions, and a lack of the technical gremlins which have created a distraction in every one of my chats in recent memory. A few anwers covering …
An ESPN Insider/Baseball Prospectus twin killing, this one looks at PECOTA’s picks for the most productive 27-year-olds: As with many a key sabermetric tenet, Bill James is responsible for introducing the idea that ballplayers, or at least hitters, reach their peak value at the age of 27. In fact, it was a serendipitous 27 years …