If these aren’t real, it’s a great editing job:
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♦ Rob Neyer is evidently not finished with naming things. He continues on the concept here. ♦ This year’s Tigers-Giants World Series was the lowest rated ever for TV. How to fix the situation. Perhaps. ♦ Speaking of TV, The Hardball Times compiled this list of “must-see MLB.TV” that was derived “by combining the average […]
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There’s no off-season anymore. As soon as one is done, it’s time to plan for the next. This probably isn’t anything new, but it sure gets more attention, thanks to 24/7 cable sports networks and the Internet. Jonathan Eig, author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story […]
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Not that I ever watched him on the show. Or the show ever. But for what it’s worth, here.
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Haven’t been posting for awhile because a) the office has been closed due to the hurricane; b) my house is without power, and c) my fingers are too fat and slow to try to handle it via smartphone, when I’m able to recharge it. Suffice it to say sports takes a back seat in times […]
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Anyone who’s read my blogs for awhile knows I’m all about the veterans. So it was especially please to have them honored before last night’s World Series game. The triple-amputee Marine acquitted himself most nobly in throwing out the first pitch (about the 7:30 mark).
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Well, he is holding a baseball bat, so that’s good enough for me. Besides, Breaking Curve Bad is one of my favorite shows.
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(Kids, ask your grandparents…) So I’m watching the game last night and Detroit reliever Al Albuquerque is pitching to San Francisco first baseman Brandon Belt. So I got to wondering: how often to batters and pitchers with alliterative names face each other? I just did a quick look at Baseball Reference and discovered there are […]
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There’s a saying in baseball that each game give you the opportunity to see something you’ve never seen before. This, courtesy of Michael Morse and the Washington Nationals, tops my list. How many of us as kids have pantomimed a grand-slam swing?
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As part of her birthday celebration, I took my wife to the Thomas Edison Museum in West Orange, NJ. She’d been asking to go for a long time and I pretty much have no patience for museums unless there’s a baseball or pop culture connection. She wanted to buy a refrigerator magnet as a memento […]
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Not everyone is a wife-beating, DWI-incurring, homophobic-ranting lout. There are guys like Elliot Johnson, a utilityman for the Tampa Bay Rays.
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The Oakland As pitcher was hit in the head by a line drive off the bat of Los Angeles Angels Erick Aybar in yesterday’s game. Although McCarthy walked off the mound under his own power after several minutes sitting on the mound, he later had emergency brain surgery to repair a brain contusion, bleeding, and […]
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Making my regular Amazon run for new baseball e-books, I came across The History of Baseball: The Definitive Learning Guide, published by an outfit called Course Hero and via Charles River Editors. There is no single author or group of authors credited with this title. I have no knowledge of Course Hero, nor have I […]
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A run scoring on a throw back from the catcher to the pitcher? Really?
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If this doesn’t bring a lump to your throat, then you have no soul. Either scripts and active content are not permitted to run or Adobe Flash Player version10.0.0 or greater is not installed.
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Just an update about my forthcoming book, 501 Books Baseball Fans Must Read Before They Die. I starting to believe this thing is really going to happen. Received the copyedited manuscript and am going through it a couple of times, for language edits and to fill in a couple of citation questions, etc. And the […]
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A recent episode of Suits had as its “B” plot a defamation suit between an ESPN-type broadcaster and the baseball player he accused of using steroids. As with most of the episode of this intriguing show, “Asterisk” has a primary plot that shares a connection. One of the weaselly characters is put up for a […]
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Remember this? Well, now there’s this:
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Years ago I wrote a piece for E, The Environmental Magazine about how some Major League teams were getting on the “green” wagon, recycling, cutting back on water usage, etc. I kept hoping to return to the topic, but this piece by Elliott Negin, Director of News & Commentary, Union of Concerned Scientists, on the […]
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(Because you can put your baseball bracelets on a bookshelf.) R.A. Dickey, the best player on the NY Mets right now and one of the best pitchers in the Majors, might be forgiven for losing a bit of concentration in yesterday’s 6-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. In an age where ballplayers wear their uniform […]
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