Dear Alex, Oy, it feels like ages since you responded to my first volley, which gets at one of the drawbacks of a set as massive as this — particularly during baseball season, finding the time for a three-hour dig through the archives takes some doing. Anyway, you did a great job of bringing the …
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Another week, another Hit List, this one completed under the influence of my wife’s 103-degree fever, Sammy Sosa’s 600th home run, a suspicious-looking early-morning handoff of a laptop at Port Authority, and my editor Christina Kahrl’s impending move to Chicago. As such, it didn’t go up until late Friday afternoon and missed inclusion in BP’s …
I came off the bench to pinch-hit for one of my Baseball Prospectus colleagues yesterday. The fruits of my labors can be found in my latest New York Sun piece, about the fall of the Cardinals, the recovery of the Brewers, and some bad behavior and worse spending by the Cubs. A quick taste: It …
Lovely win for Yankees last night to take round two of the Subway Series against a reeling Mets club that looks as though all nine players are channeling Jay Payton’s brain waves. Seriously, Carlos Delgado forgetting how many outs there were was just one more ugly moment for a team that’s been in vaporlock for …
Another week, another Hit List, this one completed at breakneck speed since I more or less put myself out of commission on Wednesday with a combination of radio, my BP chat, and a trip to Yankee Stadium to see the hottest team in baseball. And no, I don’t mean the Diamondbacks, who left New York …
Alex Belth’s follow-up to my initial entry in our discussion of the seven-disc New York Yankees 1977 World Series Collectors Edition is up at Bronx Banter. In it, he discusses the ’77 ALCS between the Yanks and Royals at length. Here’s the start: Yo Jay, Dude, one of the main reasons why I loved football …
For the second weekend in a row, I’m on the road, this time up in Northampton attending my good friend (and frequent FI foil) Nick’s wedding to his lovely bride Atoussa. As such, I didn’t even get to stick around to see this week’s Hit List go up. The Red Sox remain #1 on the …
I’m pleased to announce that today marks the beginning of an extended series of correspondences with Alex Belth of Bronx Banter that will be unfolding over the next several weeks as we discuss The New York Yankees: 1977 World Series Collector’s Edition DVD Set recently released by A&E TV (list price: $69.95). The format of …
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Writing this from Las Vegas, where I’m spending a weekend of debauchery for my brother’s bachelor party. It’s the first time I’ve been here since I was 19, and likely the last for a good long time; writing about baseball doesn’t exactly yield the kind of money you can hemorrhage here without conscience (“call it …
It’s been a busy week here at Futility Central. In addition to today’s Prospectus Hit List, I had a JAWS Notebook article at BP, a piece on the AL Central for the New York Sun, sidecar Unfiltered entries to both of those pieces, and three radio spots — Toledo, Ohio, College Station, Texas, and my …