For my money, last year’s biggest story in baseball was the way the Tampa Bay Rays’ turnaround was triggered by a record-setting improvement in their Defensive Efficiency. Of course, it certainly helped to have a stockpile of young talent, a shrewd GM and an innovative manager, but none of them would have likely gotten such …
In recent years, my wife has developed a passion for architecture, and in particular New York City architecture. She’s taken a pair of classes taught by architecture historian Barry Lewis at the New School over the past couple of years, along the way assimilating more information on the entire discipline than I ever have. Having …
With the preseason Hit List and the final Fantasy Baseball Index Spring Update both raging out of control on my front burners, I don’t have time for a full writeup of last night’s trip to the new Yankee Stadium for the unofficial opening game against the Cubs. I will say that it feels as though …
In the end, after no shortage of drama, we got our Yankees tickets: Just moments before I embarked for the Baseball Prospectus 2009 Baltimore whistle stop earlier this week, I got a call from my friend Nick, the “commissioner” of our aggrieved group of Yankees partial-plan ticket holders. Two weeks after turning down the team’s …
Blogrolling, the third-party add-on to this site which maintains the links you see at left, recently returned from a lengthy stay on the disabled list. The code has been completely re-written, but as I’m just discovering, not all the kinks have been worked out. Instead of alphabetizing the links, they now appear in the order …
Friend, colleague and stadium shell game expert Neil deMause has been flexing his journalistic muscles by keeping up with the Yankee Stadium ticket beat(down), and generously salting his reports with a few choice quotes from yours truly. Following up his initial report for The Village Voice, last week he unearthed some choice euphemisms from Yankees’ …
So, over the past three years, I’ve talked to two other WSJ reporters at length a total of five or six times, for maybe an hour and a half, without getting my name in that paper (not that I’m counting). While part of me wishes that the eloquent command of the Yankee Stadium ticket issue …
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I’m mad as hell about the Yankees’ ticket situation, and I’m not gonna take it any more. Instead of being offered our $25 seats, or even anything between the bases, we had been assigned $85 seats in section 107… …right behind the right field foul pole. Obstructed view, at more than triple the price of …
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A few things: • The 12-minute spot I recorded on Wednesday morning for “The Young Guns” show on Boston’s WWZN 1510 AM is available here. Hopefully now that the show’s got a blog they’ll be archiving all of my appearances so I can share them here (you can listen to a web stream if you’re …
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Waking up before 7 AM in each of the past two days to do early morning radio hits has me bleary-eyed as the playoffs begin, particularly given how late I was up working on my preview of the Phillies-Brewers series for Baseball Prospectus. Monday’s makeup game and Tuesday’s Game 163 playoff certainly didn’t help my …