If your pop-psychology take on why I’ve spent my time since Saturday mostly writing about the demise of the 2004 Dodgers instead of the impending Yankees-Red Sox heavyweight bout is because I’m afraid of what the outcome might be, I won’t argue with you. Two weeks of double duty, absorbed in rooting for teams on …
“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.” — …
In which Double-Duty Jaffe returns to his East Coast bias… After the rollercoaster Game Two of the Yankees-Twins Divisional Series, I voiced the sentiment that Yankee haters might be getting tired of such seemingly scripted October heroics. Following Saturday’s ballgame, the response from anyone answering my rhetorical query might echo a certain pinstriped sage: “It’s …
In which Double-Duty Jaffe places a single Dodger postseason victory ahead of a Yankee clincher… After watching eleven gut-wrenching but ultimately rewarding innings of Saturday’s Yankees-Twins game chez Alex Belth (which I’ll get to in my next post), we kept the party going a bit longer as the Fox Annoy-o-vision broadcast switched over to the …
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Once upon a time, nearly half of the baseball games I watched were played on synthetic turf. Houston, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Toronto, Montreal all played on the stuff and won plenty, those teams taking turns winning 15 pennants, 10 World Championships and oodles of division titles from 1975-1993. The high …
Unless my work schedule changes in the next few hours, I’m not likely to get a chance to catch up with Thursday night’s Dodger debacle in a timely, detailed manner. I’m disappointed withGame Two‘s result, of course, and hold myself to blame for years of trash-talking Cardinals catcher Mike Matheny (career OPS .629), who drove …
Yankee haters, I can understand how you might be getting tired of stories like this. Four hours into a thrilling rollercoaster of a ballgame, the Minnesota Twins had the New York Yankees two outs away from heading to the heartland down 2-0. They had touched Mariano Rivera for a blown save, that rarest of postseason …
As if I hadn’t written enough in the last 24 hours, this afternoon’s drubbing of the Dodgers (down 7-1 in the sixth as I write this… no, 7-2… now 8-2) has sent me back to the keyboard to tie up a few loose ends. First up are my postseason predictions, which I’ll offer without comment …
When the Dodgers and the Yankees were last in the playoffs simultaneously, my view of baseball was much different than it is today. The year was 1996. I was 26, had hair down to my collar, and worked as the Associate Art Director at Wolff New Media, where we published topical guides to the Internet …
After a fun and eventful weekend, we have much to discuss… • It didn’t get posted over the weekend, but my Baseball Prospectus piece on Barry Bonds, “One Man is an Island,” is up today. It’s my sixth BP piece of the year, and though it was written in a bit of a crunch, when …