The 411 on Me and Ties

The good folks at MLB keep calling my number, and I keep calling up Tie-a-Tie to pull together a competent Half-Windsor knot. Last Tuesday, Clubhouse Confidential invited me back for not one but two segments. The first one marked uncharted territory for me, participating in their “Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside” segment, in which a member of …

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Great Jaffe Moments in Movie History

Nothing to do with baseball, but after a friend showed off her Little Lebowski Urban Achievers t-shirt, I stumbled upon a UK-based website called Last Exit to Nowhere which numbers this beauty among their smartly-designed movie-inspired collection: Can’t believe I missed that one given all the times I watched Dirty Harry during my formative years. …

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The Big Hurt’s Big Sendoff

Last week, Frank Thomas officially called it quits, not a huge surprise given that the 41-year-old slugger, who bopped 521 home runs in his career, didn’t play at all in 2009. Today I’ve got a column at Baseball Prospectus celebrating his career, his Hall of Fame case, and his place in history: It’s no stretch …

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