Basking in the afterglow of that miraculous Dodger win, I caught the MLB.com postgame interview footage with Jeff Kent. Now, I’m not a fan of Kent’s winning personality, as I wrote before, but I respect the hell out of his game, and for a guy who treats baseball like a job instead of a passion, …
With the Yankees coasting towards their ninth straight division title, my attention has been riveted on the NL West the past several days, where the Dodgers and Padres have been fighting tooth and nail for control of the division and its likely consolation prize, the NL Wild Card. Coming into the series, the Dodgers held …
A few months ago, when Al Leiter suddenly became a staple in the YES Network broadcast booth, I predicted to a couple of friends that Leiter was being groomed to replace Jim Kaat. As great as Kaat is as an analyst, he’s clashed with Yankee brass before over everything from contracts to criticizing the team …
As I mentioned earlier, this week’s Hit List — the first full one I’ve done since August 20 — is up at Baseball Prospectus. For the second week in a row, the Yanks top the list, followed by the Tigers, Mets and surging Twins, who not only look poised to keep the White Sox out …
Big congratulations to my good friend Alex Belth on his engagement to his lovely gal, Emily. Having met Em and watched a ballgame in the happy couple’s home up in Riverdale, I can vouch that Alex is getting one of the good ones. Mazel tov to both, and best wishes for the future. The news …
Anyone needing an explanation for why Yankee fans love Derek Jeter need only look at his measured response to David Ortiz’s pre-emptive whining about the upcoming MVP vote now that the Dead Sox are 10.5 out of first place: “Don’t get me wrong — he’s a great player, having a great season, but he’s got …
I was pretty busy with today’s Hit List right up until near the submission deadline, so I hardly left the house yesterday and didn’t even turn on live TV except to catch the crucial innings of the Yankees-Orioles game (first question: what the hell is Fernando Tatis doing in a major-league uniform? second question: what …
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Back in New York City after my late-August travels — backpacking in Wyoming, eating fresh vegetables out of my dad’s garden in Salt Lake, and attending my brother-in-law Aaron’s wedding in Milwaukee — I banged out a streamlined version of this week’s Hit List while working on another Hit List-related piece that should run later …
“Where the f—- is your opus on the Yanks-Sox sweep already? I’m getting impatient already.” — Alex Belth Apologies to Alex and the rest of my readers expecting an opus; there will be none this week. Instead I’ll refer you back to the usual suspects, Alex (and again), his compadre Cliff Corcoran, Joe Sheehan, Steve …
I’m about the last person in the world who needs a management book. Most of the work I do, whether graphic design or writing about baseball, is done from home by a squad of one… unless you count my bobbleheads, a/k/a the Futility Infielder Executive Board. They’re pretty much a bunch of Yes-Men, as in, …