Just a reminder that I’ll be in Philadelphia on Thursday evening to promote Baseball Prospectus 2007 along with the book’s editors, Christina Kahrl and Steven Goldman. The three of us will also attempt to eat our weight in cheesesteaks*. Here’s the deets: Thursday, March 8, 7:00 PM Barnes & NobleRittenhouse Square1805 Walnut StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19103215-665-0716 …
This morning I recorded a radio spot for WGBB 1240 AM‘s Sports Break with Joel Blumberg. Over the course of about 20 mintues (starting 7:45 in), Joel and I talked about Brian Cashman’s bold power play, the Mets’ middle relief, the Red Sox’s winter spending, and (sigh) the impact of steroids on the single season …
On Monday, my JAWS article about the Veterans Committee was published at Baseball Prospectus publication. Tuesday saw the voting results — another shutout — announced, and when I blogged it at BP Unfiltered, I added a veiled dig at the New York Times‘ Murray Chass, who had… well, I’ll give him the rope: I receive …
In the wee hours of the past few nights, amid my other deadlines and drama I’ve inevitably found myself IMing with Steven Goldman about my various contributions to It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: the Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book. Two nights ago, the topic was 1967 (one of my two narrative chapters), and Tiger …
…and sometimes you’re just wrong, as I was when I thought my BP chat was on Monday at 4 PM. It’s Tuesday at 4 PM EST, two hours after the Veterans Committee voting results are announced by the Hall of Fame. If there’s a silver lining to the fact that I was all sugared up …
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On Tuesday, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of this year’s Veterans Committee voting. The new VC — which has taken the process out of the hands of 15 senile men in a smoke-filled room, accountable to nobody, and put it in the hands of the living Hall of Famers, Spink and …
On Thursday night I got together with Bronx Banter‘s Alex Belth and Cliff Corcoran and SI.com’s Jake Luft for some burgers and balltalk. It was typically rambunctious, with the four of us barely restraining ourselves from talking over each other like sugared-up six-year-olds as we discussed Bernie Williams, fantasy baseball, Ronnie Lott (how’d he get …
A couple years ago I was talking with a Yankees fan, a true-blue New Yorker as typified by that classic Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover, “A View of the World from 9th Avenue,”. We were talking about our online baseball reading habits, sites we visit regularly and such, and I mentioned an article I’d read …
Back when I had a roommate, I watched more football than I do these days. I find the sport rather mundane relative to baseball, except for the really chaotic moments — trick plays, blocked punts, laterals, fumble returns, Steve Atwater-driven collisions, Urban Meyer-designed offenses and so on. The running joke we had was that nothing …
Meticulously not fixing what ain’t broke, I’ll revisit this format again… • Kevin Goldstein’s Top 100 Prospects list is out at Baseball Prospectus. It’s Goldstein’s first one for BP, and it comes on the heels of his Organizational Rankings and team-by-team Top 10 Prospect lists (indexed on the aforementioned rankings). Goldstein’s writeups for each of …