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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: “Look, it’s hard to count to three, okay?”
June 21, 2012 – 10:04 AM | 11 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “Look, it’s hard to count to three, okay?”

With the “Theo agonistes” stories going around the baseball press in the last couple of weeks, it seemed like a good time to chat with a fan of the franchise St. Epstein is expected to …

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 …

Squared Up: Card Games
July 2, 2010 – 12:28 AM | 16 Comments
Squared Up: Card Games

I snagged a pack of Topps the other day for the hell of it, and something isn’t quite right about it. Maybe it’s a special promotional kind of pack that contains a higher proportion of …

Baseball book-review three-pack: American Icon, The Last Nine Innings, and Seasons In Hell
June 6, 2009 – 10:01 AM | 11 Comments
Baseball book-review three-pack: <I>American Icon</I>, <I>The Last Nine Innings</I>, and <I>Seasons In Hell</I>

American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime is the work of four writers (Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red), and you can kind of …

“Seriously, was anybody editing this thing?”
April 5, 2009 – 10:56 PM | 32 Comments
“Seriously, was <I>anybody</I> editing this thing?”

The other day, I received an email from reader Todd K in which he crabbed at length about Jeff Pearlman’s new book on Roger Clemens.I had just read in Sports Illustrated‘s baseball preview issue that …