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Out With The Crowd: “Happily surprised, obviously”
May 9, 2013 – 5:37 PM | 3 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “Happily surprised, obviously”

Bill Simmons’s Dad is not actually Bill Simmons’s actual dad. He’s my friend Mike, and he’s a Red Sox fan…still, even after last year. Heh.

Out With The Crowd: “Just the fact that they’re in the AL East is a concern”
May 2, 2013 – 4:40 PM | 2 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “Just the fact that they’re in the AL East is a concern”

David Bakke is the editor “and sports fanatic” at Money Crashers, and a fan of both the Tampa Bay Rays and the Atlanta Braves. Bakke talked to me via email over the last week or …

Out With The Crowd: “Who wants to come to Cleveland?”
April 1, 2013 – 12:05 PM | 2 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “Who <I>wants</I> to come to Cleveland?”

Ed DeSantis is a lifelong Tribe fan who, like many Indians fans I’ve met, starts each season full of hope. Is 2013 the year Cleveland makes it happen? One word: Detroit. DeSantis and I talked …

The Sports Gack
June 7, 2011 – 7:20 PM | 34 Comments
The Sports Gack

Times scribe Jonathan Mahler freezes my distaste for Bill Simmons in carbonite — SEE WHAT I DID THERE?! — in just three grafs

The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 1: Pith Fail
November 23, 2010 – 9:23 AM | 4 Comments
The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 1: Pith Fail

It didn’t feel like an hour, but that’s how long inaugural guest Couch Baron and I blathered on about baseball in the first episode of The Squared Up Podcast. I’ll have a better handle on …

The Yankee Years
April 23, 2009 – 4:11 PM | 12 Comments
<I>The Yankee Years</I>

On balance, an excellent read in spite of some frustrating overwriting.Plum-colored prose is a frequent fault of baseball books that I can tolerate at some times better than at others; here it’s bothersome because Verducci …