It’s a banner day for me at Baseball Prospectus Radio — literally. The new BPR banner which I designed late last year has finally been put in place, and two recent episodes of the show with spots by yours truly are archived for your listening pleasure. The first episode dates back to December 16, just …
All right, Yankee fans and readers of quality baseball writing on this here web-o-ma-phone, you’ve got a nice little addition to your reading list to celebrate. Steven Goldman, who writes the essential Pinstriped Bible column for the YES website, has added a new little widget, the Pinstriped Blog. Goldman is — and I say this …
A hail of bullets to give you folks a reading list while I plow ahead with an unexpected deadline (another BP thing) and scarf down some lunch, and then I’m back to work… • The Hall of Fame voting results were announced on Tuesday, with two men getting enough votes for enshrinement: Wade Boggs and …
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First off, a belated but nonetheless heartfelt Happy New Year to all of my readers. I returned from Milwaukee last night after being more or less at the center of attention for the past few days, with a birthday dinner, a bachelor party, and an engagement party broken up only by New Years’ Eve and …
The following is a belated and revised version of my annual December 25 piece. December 25 marks a holiday for most of this country and probably, for most of my readership — if so, my sincere wishes for a happy holiday to you. For me the day is somewhat more paradoxical: I’m Jewish and thus …
Blogging’s been light here lately because I’ve been hard at work on various projects for Baseball Prospectus. The second half of my Hall of Fame JAWS piece, covering the pitchers, went up on Monday; I found three pitchers worthy of a spot on the 2005 ballot. Also, my second Prospectus Triple Play, covering the Dodgers, …
In a seething-rage-driven and impulsive move whose repercussions were felt far earlier than I had expected, I switched webhosts for The Futility Infielder last night with all the grace and foresight of a man jamming a knife into an electrical socket. I had long been threatening to switch, and one last “not found” message for …
Like my Remaking the Yankees series, the Hall of Fame ballot has become an annual staple of my winter diet. For the second time this calendar year, I’ve tackled the most recent slate of candidates for Baseball Prospectus. The hitters’ segment, an epic unto itself, went up on Thursday and is free to all readers. …
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The following post was written Monday morning but could not be published until my return to New York City. As I sit here at LAX, mooching wireless and recharging my gadget batteries even while my own are considerably run down, there isn’t a hell of a lot to add to the coda of my last …
It would be inaccurate to say that I spent 14 hours in the lobby of the Anaheim Marriott on Saturday. After all, I hit for the cycle at the hotel’s Starbucks (coffee, soda, juice and water) and spent a good deal of time in the 100-yard-long hallway connecting the two rooms. Plus the walk from …