I try very hard to steer clear of any head-on political content in this blog. An astute reader could certainly cobble together a good idea of where I stand based on the views I’ve aired regarding, say, stadium finance, gays in baseball, and the politicization of the Hall of Fame. But I started writing about …
Part two of the Yankee post-mortem to which I contributed is up at All-Baseball.com. This portion deals more with the Yanks’ off-season priorities, who should be on the way out (I hold that Kevin Brown and Mel Stottlemyre should be, no surprise to any regular readers), how much they can spend, as well as the …
With the wounds inflicted by the Yankees’ loss to the Red Sox still fresh, I was invited by Christian Ruzich of All-Baseball.com to contribute my thoughts to a roundtable along with Alex Belth and Cliff Corcoran. The first portion of our lengthy post-mortem, dealing with the nuts ad bolts of the ALCS loss, is now …
Perhaps the most famous line of Michael Lewis’ Moneyball comes towards the end of the book, when Oakland GM Billy Beane watches his year’s work go up in flames as the A’s lose a five-game first round series to the Minnesota Twins. “My shit doesn’t work in the playoffs,” says a frustrated Beane. “My job …
“Kick in the idiot box and wait for the news in the history books/ It’s like junkies who hate their heroin.” — d. boon, lead singer of the Minutemen, “Shit You Hear at Parties” Yes Virginia, there really is no joy in Mudville now that the Yankees have struck out. Try as I might to …
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Here’s a composite ballot from two different places I submitted my choices for this year’s awards, the Internet Baseball Awards and the Internet Baseball Writers Association. The IBA mirrors the Baseball Writers of America Association voting except that voters are allowed to go five deep in the Cy Young voting. The IBWA voting uses “Player …
I won’t see Game One of the World Series due to other commitments, can’t even really wrap my head around it because I’ve been asked to partake in a postmortem on the Yankees for All-Baseball.com. The short answer: we will see a lot of runs generated by two devastating offenses this week, and I see …
Q: What does $185 million buy? A: The worst choke in postseason baseball history. The most expensive team in the history of professional sports has been consigned to the dustbin of history as its laughingstock. As the first baseball team ever to blow a 3-0 lead in a best-of-seven series, losing to their most hated …
My night in the Yankee Stadium bleachers was a memorable one, though it ended in frustration and with no shortage of controversy as the Yankees lost to the Red Sox, 4-2. The loss forces a Game Seven that is both unprecedented in the annals of baseball history — no team down 3-0 has ever forced …
The New York Yankees’ quest for a 40th pennant hit another bump in the road on Monday evening. In a game that bore alarming similarity to the epic that had concluded only 16 hours beforehand, the Yanks again held a late-inning lead which Mariano Rivera could not hold, sending the game into extra innings where …