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The Vine: April 1, 2009
April 1, 2009 – 4:37 PM | 36 Comments

Dear Sars,
I want to end a friendship without creating any animosity or ill feelings.I have been friends outside of work with someone I work fairly closely with, both in physical proximity and a lot of …

At least headline-writers get to have a good time
February 9, 2009 – 5:25 PM | 30 Comments
At least headline-writers get to have a good time

“A-Roid,” “A-Fraud,” it’s a tabloid field day around here.   Craig Calcaterra at Hardball Times has a good (and more importantly, calm) piece about the revelations, and the last few days of coverage.
If you demonize …

Pete Rose has a MySpace page
December 22, 2008 – 7:53 AM | 21 Comments

And it’s freakin’ hideous.
I don’t know why Pete ROSE of all goddamn people lives in Las Vegas, the gambling capital of North America, but if he’s going to live there, and he’s going to sign …

“I want to do my best”
December 3, 2008 – 9:39 PM | 14 Comments
“I want to do my best”

Don’t we all, Ms. Yoshida.   Don’t we all.
Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month …

The Takeaway
October 13, 2008 – 4:02 PM | 7 Comments

I appeared on the show this morning to talk baseball; the archived version is here.   I fear that having to get up at 5 AM may have gotten the best of me in the …

Update/Support Local Biz: 10/10, 9:45 AM
October 10, 2008 – 9:51 AM | 3 Comments

As of right now, almost 7,000 students reached, and $47,500 and change.   $ and the Mysterians have done their work; we’re very close to the initial goal and almost halfway to Washingtomato.
Thank you so …

Support Local Biz: September 23, 2008
September 23, 2008 – 2:42 PM | 2 Comments
Support Local Biz: September 23, 2008

A reminder: Film Park Slope kicks off tonight at 7:30 PM (doors open 7:15-ish) with Ira Sachs’s Married Life, followed by an in-person Q&A with Sachs himself.   Series sensei Keith Uhlich asked me to …

The Fall of the 1977 Phillies
September 15, 2008 – 11:47 AM | 17 Comments
<em>The Fall of the 1977 Phillies</em>

It’s ambitious, the book — the subtitle, “How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit,” is indicative of the grand parallels Mitchell Nathanson intends to draw between the Phillies’ Keystone kollapse to the Dodgers …

Crazy Nines: Gesundheit! (Chewiest Baseball Names)
August 26, 2008 – 9:37 AM | 12 Comments
Crazy Nines: Gesundheit! (Chewiest Baseball Names)

Let me say right up top that this is a pretty arbitrary list; not every chewy name in baseball history made the cut. Generally speaking, I included names 1) longer than ten letters, and names …

Crazy Nines: Colors Of The World, Spice Up Your Life! (Not You, Mike Greenwell)
August 21, 2008 – 7:16 PM | 4 Comments
Crazy Nines: Colors Of The World, Spice Up Your Life! (Not You, Mike Greenwell)

Starting Position Players
C Bob “Red” Kinsella
As far as I can tell, Kinsella never even put on the tools of ignorance in the majestic total of four games he played for the New York Giants. Why …