What an amazing day of watching baseball. Saturday night, as the Padres worked the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, somebody on BP’s mailing list said that they smelled three Game Fours on Sunday. The Padres didn’t convert, ending their season with a sweep by the Cardinals as befitting the …
David Laurila of the Red Sox Nation website recently interviewed me on the topic of — what else? — Mind Game as part of a five-part series (part one, with Steve Goldman, is already up). Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez, and relief aces were some of the topics I addressed. Here’s a sample: RSN: …
More bullets, because time isn’t on my side today: • The weather last night at Yankee Stadium looked awful, conditions hardly befitting the swing game of a playoff series. Play was never delayed, but the field looked to be fairly waterlogged. Players were slipping, players had a very difficult time holding onto the ball, the …
My travel to Philadelphia precluded me both from commenting on Game Two of the Yankees’ series, which they lost 5-3, and from seeing any of Thursday’s playoff action, a bit of a shock to the system given the two baseball-saturated days I had enjoyed before that. Some random bullet points about the postseason thus far: …
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Just a brief note to announce that I’ll be joining Steven Goldman and perhaps other Baseball Prospectus authors for a pair of bookstore appearances this week, one on Thursday evening in Philadelphia, the other Saturday here in New York City.
Huge win for the Yankees last night as they beat the Angels 4-2 out in Anaheim to take a 1-0 lead in the Division Series. Mike Mussina–the good, if diminished version–gave the Yanks 5.2 scoreless innings, more than they had any right to expect, the team put together two two-out rallies, and suddenly the Yanks …
In the words of my man Jim Anchower, “Hola amigos, it’s been awhile since I rapped at ya.” When I last checked in, Saturday’s Yankee-Red Sox game was just moments away. Today the first round of the playoffs is underway. In between we’ve heroes and heartbreak on the way to a climactic end of a …
Not much time to grumble about last night’s Yankee loss to the Red Sox except to say that David Wells pitched like the big game hunter that he was advertised as, that Jason Giambi throws like a little girl, and that Jorge Posada’s unclutch performance continues. When the game was over I tried to flip …
You’re reading the words of a happy man, and not just because the Yanks find themselves one game up in the AL East going into the weekend’s showdown in Fenway. No, I’m a happy man because my copy of Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a …
Keeping up with the audio theme, I’m pleased to announce that I will be one of the guests on Radio Open Source, which runs from 7 PM to 8 PM EST Thursday evening on WGBH in Boston (89.7 FM) and from 4 PM to 5 PM via KUOW in Puget Sound (94.9 FM). The topic, …