Farewell to a Much Better Buzz

“Who else played golf with Babe Ruth, had dinner with Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale and worked for people of the stature of Larry MacPhail, Walter O’Malley, Gene Autry and Ray Kroc?”–Buzzie Bavasi (1914-2008) While Buzz Bissinger continues to be raked over the coals, the baseball world lost one of its titans on Thursday, as …

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Clearing the Bases — Late Friday Dead Horse Flog Edition

• God, what a wretched week for the Yankees. As summarized in this week’s Hit List. Big Hurts: the Yankees lose Jorge Posada, Alex Rodriguez, Brian Bruney and Philip Hughes to injuries in the same week. Both Posada and A-Rod are gone after wavering between the bench and the lineup, likely prolonging their absence, and …

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Hit and Run

“I think blogs are dedicated to cruelty, they’re dedicated to journalistic dishonesty.” – Honest Buzz Bissinger, best-selling author on “Costas Now” That blanket statement was the opening salvo fired on behalf of Tired Old Media on Tuesday night’s “Costas Now” segment devoted to The Way Those Big Mean Bloggers Are Destroying Journalism. Actually, that’s not …

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This Wasn’t the Cold One I Had in Mind

Sat through another chilly night at Yankee Stadium last night, watching the Yankees fall to the Tigers 6-4 in a game they should have won. Even with Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada on the sidelines, they had more than their share of opportunities against a team that has thus far fallen every bit as short …

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Bullets for a Busy Day

Busy day: • A Prospectus Hit List to go with Wednesday’s Hit and Run piece on struggling rotations, with special focus on the current Tigers and the historically awful Rangers, with an aside about the Yankees’ failure to get innings from their starting five (5.07 per start). • a spot on the Rotowire Fantasy Sports …

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Big Lugs and Small Sample Sizes

Watching Tuesday night’s Yankees-White Sox game in an attempt to keep my mind off the Pennyslvania Democractic primary results, I saw Jason Giambi homer to left field in the second inning. Giambi came into the game hitting .109/.288/.283 in 46 at-bats, and more ominously, just .174/.323/.366 in 213 at-bats going back to last May 1. …

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Interminable

This week’s Hit List was composed amid a hangover of sorts brought on by Wednesday night’s Yankees-Red Sox match, an interminable 15-9 win for the Yanks that lasted four hours and eight minute. Four-hour affairs aren’t really my bag any more — I routinely avoid Yankees-Orioles games like telemarketers phoning at dinner time — and …

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