Fabulous weekend here at Futility Central, with baseball on the back burner after I delivered this week’s Hit List… • Friday night, we caught the opening of the long-awaited Simpsons Movie, and while it wasn’t a gut-busting revelation, it didn’t need to be. [Semi-spoiler alert; skip to next bullet]. Other than the expanded length, the …
It’s a big day here at Futility Central. Those of you who are regular readers of the Hit List may have noticed that last week’s edition weighed in a bit lighter than normal, which is to say that for once it was of manageable length. There’s a reason for that. After two and a half …
My annual All-Star break edition of the Hit List is up at Baseball Prospectus. The Yankees hold the #5 spot, but even with their win last night to return to .500, I remain unconvinced, consistent with my recent ranting: Don’t kid yourselves, Yankee fans–despite the high ranking and the upcoming soft schedule, it’s all over …
Yankees’ overall record to date: 37-41 (.474 winning percentage) Record without their early June 14-3 hot streak: 23-38 (.377) Record vs. AL East opponents: 8-17 (.320) Record needed to match the Red Sox’s 99-win pace: 62-22 (.738) Record needed to win 95 games, the same number as the last two AL Wild Cards: 58-26 (.690) …
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 …
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 …
It’s been a busy week here at Futility Central. In addition to today’s Prospectus Hit List, I had a JAWS Notebook article at BP, a piece on the AL Central for the New York Sun, sidecar Unfiltered entries to both of those pieces, and three radio spots — Toledo, Ohio, College Station, Texas, and my …
It’s Subway Series time, and if you can detect the lack of enthusiasm here, well, that’s because the series finds the Yankees — 12th on this week’s Hit List — reeling as they head out to Shea Stadium, 18-21 and having lost their last two series. Here’s what I had to say about them: It …
Given my recent disappointment with the tense Yankee Stadium scene and its heavy-handed security, Friday evening at Shea Stadium felt like a breath of fresh air — the first time in the history of the English language that sentence has been written, I’m sure — with the Brewers and the Mets squaring off for the …