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Badge #643

It arrived yesterday, the most important envelope I’ve received since my college acceptance letter nearly 23 years ago, but also nearly the emptiest, just a single piece of plastic, with no accompanying document. Still, I was told this would be arriving, and the enclosed item spoke for itself:

No: 643
Baseball Writers’ Association of America
Jay Jaffe
Baseball Prospectus
New [...]

Beat the Mets

Sunday’s sad news about Lima Time prevented me from catching up with my latest BP links. In addition to the usual Hit Lists (AL here, NL here), I had my second press box adventure inside of a week, attending Friday night’s Yankees-Mets game at CitiField. For a Subway Series, this one kicked off under rather [...]

Taking the Plunge

On Saturday I fulfilled a long-held dream, one that I could barely have conceived of when I started this blog back in 2001: I attended a game as a member of the working media, with access to the press box, the locker rooms and the field, the whole behind-the-scenes megillah. Credential in hand (or more [...]