Another week, another Hit List, this one completed under the influence of my wife’s 103-degree fever, Sammy Sosa’s 600th home run, a suspicious-looking early-morning handoff of a laptop at Port Authority, and my editor Christina Kahrl’s impending move to Chicago. As such, it didn’t go up until late Friday afternoon and missed inclusion in BP’s …
Buried within his daily column, Salon’s King Kaufman takes note of a wonderful moment on Friday night when Dodger announcer Vin Scully let a ninth-inning confrontation between Dodger closer Takashi Saito and Angel slugger Vlad Guerrero speak for itself. The Golden Throat of baseball history told his listeners, “Boy, when you get a matchup like …
Another week, another Hit List, this one completed at breakneck speed since I more or less put myself out of commission on Wednesday with a combination of radio, my BP chat, and a trip to Yankee Stadium to see the hottest team in baseball. And no, I don’t mean the Diamondbacks, who left New York …
For the second weekend in a row, I’m on the road, this time up in Northampton attending my good friend (and frequent FI foil) Nick’s wedding to his lovely bride Atoussa. As such, I didn’t even get to stick around to see this week’s Hit List go up. The Red Sox remain #1 on the …
Hola amigos, been awhile since I rapped at ya, at least in this forum. The past week and a half has been a whirlwind: four promotional appearances on behalf of Baseball Prospectus 2007 in such exotic places as New Haven, Montclair, New Jersey and the Columbia University campus, five radio appearances in markets such as …
• After 12 years of living in the East Village, I’m Brooklyn-bound. On Thursday, my wife and I signed a contract and put down a deposit on a 1,250-square foot apartment in downtown Brooklyn, one that will allow me to have a dedicated home office AND keep a room in reserve for a Jaffe To …
• With the Dodgers slated to move their spring training facilities to Glendale, Arizona in 2009, Dodgertown’s days are numbered. Having been to Vero Beach in 1989 and again in 2003, I have some fond memories of the place, and I’m not the only one. Over at Dodger Thoughts, reader Eric Tenbus shares some wonderful …