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The Call-Up

Jay Jaffe — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:43:26 +0000

Oy vey, it’s been far too long since I updated this space, easily my longest stretch of silence here in over nine years of blogging. Needless to say, I’ve been extremely busy, delivering content for Baseball Prospectus and Pinstriped Bible through the postseason and into the Hot Stove season, diving into the Prospectus annual and ...

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The King of the Sports Page Ledes the Way

Jay Jaffe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:29:00 +0000

Last week, Bronx Banter’s Alex Belth put together a three-part series (one, two, three) on some of the greatest ledes — the opening sentences or paragraphs of newspaper or magazine articles — in sportswriting history, lines which pack a wallop that’s stood the test of time. A student of the genre, Alex called upon great ...

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Friday’s Child (Slight Return)

Jay Jaffe — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:50:00 +0000

Three things: • A hearty congratulations to Pete Abraham, who is leaving The Journal News for The Boston Globe and in doing so will move from covering the Yankees to the hated Red Sox. As any Yankee fan with an Internet connection knows, Pete’s been THE go-to beat reporter for all things Yankees for the past ...

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What’s Eating A-Rod?

Jay Jaffe — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:12:00 +0000

For the Baseball Prospectus/ESPN Insider soup du jour, I join forces with Will Carroll to examine Alex Rodriguez’s struggles, which saw him benched for Friday and Saturday’s games amid an 8-for-55 June swoon that dragged his overall line down to .212/.370/.462. Here’s a taste: The schadenfreudians might believe that Rodriguez is receiving a cosmic comeuppance ...

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I’ll Show You The Bronx

Jay Jaffe — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:47:00 +0000

Just wanted to note a couple of pieces from Alex Belth that got lost in the All-Star week shuffle. First is his SI.com article about the good, the bad and the ugly of Yankee Stadium II: The list of complaints is sizable: the ridiculous ticket prices, the lousy concessions (how can pretzels not be warmed-up ...

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For Pete’s Sake

Jay Jaffe — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:30:00 +0000

Having already established that the good folks at Yanksfan Vs. Soxfan have fine taste in interview subjects, today the blog offers a tête- à-tête with Peter Abraham. Abraham covers the Yankees beat for the Westchester Journal News, but it’s his accompanying Lohud Yankees Blog which sets him apart from most other beat reporters by providing ...

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