Congratulations to Justin Liu, Schuyler Dombroske, and Lance Golden on winning the Dodger World Series DVD sets reviewed here. Here are the answers: 1. Several Dodgers won multiple World Series rings as a member of the club, but only one player appeared in four of the team’s winning World Series. Who is he? Jim Gilliam …
From the junk drawer of my mind… • The Dodger DVD contest is still on; thus far one of the three sets remains unclaimed, and can still be won for answering this: Everybody remembers Bob Lemon’s decision to pinch-hit for former Dodger Tommy John in Game Six of the ’81 Series, but what other dubious …
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The 2006 Dodgers are certainly taking their fans on a rollercoaster ride. Having lost their first 13 out of 14 after the All-Star break, they won 11 straight to nearly even the score before losing last night. Key contributions from deadline acquisitions Greg Maddux (who tossed six no-hit innings in his Dodger debut) and Wilson …
This week’s Trading Deadline Extravaganza Hit List is up at Baseball Prospectus. Rather than delve into its baseball content — it’s all free there, if you care to read it — I’ll skip to the dedication at the bottom: This week’s column is dedicated to the loving memory of Clara Gottfried Jaffe (11/2/1912-8/1/2006), wife, mother, …
Nothing to say but WOW as to the Yankees’ acquisition of Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle from the Phillies for four Yankee minor leaguers, none of them top-shelf,, the most familiar of which are C.J. Henry, the team’s #1 pick in 2005, and 27-year-old LOOGY Matt Smith, who hadn’t allowed a run in 12 innings …
A big welcome to those of you reaching this site from ESPN, where Jonah Keri (in his new digs at Page 2) used the Jaffe WARP Score methodology in a piece today to examine the Hall of Fame cases of John Smoltz and Curt Schilling. Even better, Keri gave extensive play to JAWS’ take on …
Harold Reynolds is out at ESPN, fired after 11 years. If the rumors are true, the reasons may be rather unsavory. I bring this up not to dwell on the speculation, to fan the flames, or to mourn the passing of an era. Frankly, though I kind of enjoyed Reynolds’ squeaky on-air persona (and his …
I haven’t seen the results (they air Friday evening, when I’ll be on an airplane) but my second NESN appearance on the Boston Globe’s SportsPlus certainly felt like a success. I was on for one nine-minute roundtable-style segment with fill-in host Eric Frede and Boston Globe columnist Nick Cafardo; last time I did three shorter …
My latest chat at Baseball Prospectus went two-and-a-half hours, neither my longest nor my most prolific. Frankly, given all of my travels this week (roundtrip to Boston in a day and a cross-country weekend trip looming), I was pretty cooked. It would have been my preference to reschedule. I didn’t have quite my usual joie …
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Back from taping my aforementioned appearance on the Boston Globe’s SportsPlus on NESN. It turns out my episode will air Friday at 5:30 PM Eastern, and again Saturday at 5:30. Those of you set to tape the show, please adjust accordingly.