I was pretty busy with today’s Hit List right up until near the submission deadline, so I hardly left the house yesterday and didn’t even turn on live TV except to catch the crucial innings of the Yankees-Orioles game (first question: what the hell is Fernando Tatis doing in a major-league uniform? second question: what …
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Back in New York City after my late-August travels — backpacking in Wyoming, eating fresh vegetables out of my dad’s garden in Salt Lake, and attending my brother-in-law Aaron’s wedding in Milwaukee — I banged out a streamlined version of this week’s Hit List while working on another Hit List-related piece that should run later …
“Where the f—- is your opus on the Yanks-Sox sweep already? I’m getting impatient already.” — Alex Belth Apologies to Alex and the rest of my readers expecting an opus; there will be none this week. Instead I’ll refer you back to the usual suspects, Alex (and again), his compadre Cliff Corcoran, Joe Sheehan, Steve …
I’m about the last person in the world who needs a management book. Most of the work I do, whether graphic design or writing about baseball, is done from home by a squad of one… unless you count my bobbleheads, a/k/a the Futility Infielder Executive Board. They’re pretty much a bunch of Yes-Men, as in, …
Congratulations to Justin Liu, Schuyler Dombroske, and Lance Golden on winning the Dodger World Series DVD sets reviewed here. Here are the answers: 1. Several Dodgers won multiple World Series rings as a member of the club, but only one player appeared in four of the team’s winning World Series. Who is he? Jim Gilliam …
From the junk drawer of my mind… • The Dodger DVD contest is still on; thus far one of the three sets remains unclaimed, and can still be won for answering this: Everybody remembers Bob Lemon’s decision to pinch-hit for former Dodger Tommy John in Game Six of the ’81 Series, but what other dubious …
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The 2006 Dodgers are certainly taking their fans on a rollercoaster ride. Having lost their first 13 out of 14 after the All-Star break, they won 11 straight to nearly even the score before losing last night. Key contributions from deadline acquisitions Greg Maddux (who tossed six no-hit innings in his Dodger debut) and Wilson …
This week’s Trading Deadline Extravaganza Hit List is up at Baseball Prospectus. Rather than delve into its baseball content — it’s all free there, if you care to read it — I’ll skip to the dedication at the bottom: This week’s column is dedicated to the loving memory of Clara Gottfried Jaffe (11/2/1912-8/1/2006), wife, mother, …
Nothing to say but WOW as to the Yankees’ acquisition of Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle from the Phillies for four Yankee minor leaguers, none of them top-shelf,, the most familiar of which are C.J. Henry, the team’s #1 pick in 2005, and 27-year-old LOOGY Matt Smith, who hadn’t allowed a run in 12 innings …
A big welcome to those of you reaching this site from ESPN, where Jonah Keri (in his new digs at Page 2) used the Jaffe WARP Score methodology in a piece today to examine the Hall of Fame cases of John Smoltz and Curt Schilling. Even better, Keri gave extensive play to JAWS’ take on …