My trip to Boston to appear on the Boston Globe Sports Plus pregame show on NESN went off without a hitch. I spent about eight hours riding the rails through a rainstorm for what turned out to be about 10 minutes of air time with host Bob Neumeier. The performance — my first in-studio TV …
I missed the heavy damage the depleted Yankees inflicted on Josh Beckett and the Red Sox last night, forced to follow the game via ESPN GameCast and then the radio while I finished this week’s Hit List and endured my wife and her friend watching the series finale of “Everwood.” By the time I made …
The thing about Barry Bonds that I absolutely hate so much I want to chew out his eyeballs… oh, wait, we’re retiring that meme for another 39 home runs. Rats… Instead I’ll turn my attention to a team I haven’t had much time to write about this year, the Dodgers. I did a little thing …
I missed Barry Bonds’ 715th home run on Sunday, and not by a little. In fact, I was just about as far away as can be while remaining in North America, out on Prince Edward Island, some 3,600 miles away from the action at [Insert Phone Network Here] Stadium in San Francisco. I didn’t even …
Tuesday afternoon’s BP chat was a big success; despite very little promotion on my part, I received over 70 questions and answered more than 40 of them over the course of three hours. Among the teams I covered were the Yanks (their decimated outfield and beleaguered pitching), Red Sox (their rotation and Manny Ramirez’s place …
Just dropping a quick note to say that I’ve got a chat today at Baseball Prospectus, starting at 1 PM Eastern and probably running for a couple hours (though not the 3+ I’ve done before). Stop by and ask a question — Hit List, JAWS, Yankees, Dodgers, your favorite futility infielder, whatever — or submit …
So much to write about, so little time… • A reminder that I will be making an appearance out on Long Island at 7 PM on Friday evening, though my Baseball Prospectus colleague Steven Goldman, has had to cancel due to health woes: Guest speakers Jay Jaffe and Steve Goldman, contributing authors of Baseball Prospectus …
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The rollercoaster Yankees-Red Sox series ended on a grim note as well as a bum one for the Yanks. With some breathing room to write it all down — I haven’t had much time to comment on the team at length lately — here are my notes from the three games. • • • For …
The latest Prospectus Hit List went up on Tuesday, and for the second time this year, the Yankees have taken over the top spot. Over the past two weeks (through Sunday, not including last night’s debacle), the Yanks had gone 9-3, elevating them to a much more representative record than the 9-8 anomaly via which …
I’m wearing a black armband today. My grief is unshakeable. After some five years of on-and-off subscription, I’ve been thrown off of Lee Sinins’ Around the Majors mailing list for taking issue with his complaint regarding the loopholes in MLB’s bereavement list: 3) The Dodgers called up P Aaron Sele, placed P Odalis Perez on …