If you can’t keep track of this, you don’t deserve to have ’em…
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From the category archives:
“Ripped from today’s headlines…”
The banks are no good anyway. Whatever you do, don’t spend it on baseball tickets… “Can Sports Avoid This Recession?” Can’t you just see the free agent market this off-season? Who can claim collusion if the owners keep the salaries down? They’ll just claim a poor economy. I wonder how many fans will be up[set […]
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As mentioned yesterday: As an unrepentant skeptic, I was wondering if the “powers that be” consulted the managers of the Rays and Phillies, urging them not to steal any bases. I’ll be interested to see if there’s a report on how many of these digestive bombs were doled out.
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The New York Times‘ Freakonomics blog ran this item on why fans shouldn;t rush to buy tickets for the fall classic: …here’s my advice: If you are looking to buy World Series tickets, you should wait until a day or two before the game. In fact, as the graph … shows, this may yield savings […]
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The Numbers Guy column in the Oct. 21 The Wall Street Journal published this piece on the likelihood of Tampa fans winning a freebie from Taco Bell. All one of the players has to do during the entire World Series is steal a base. Doesn’t seem like that big a deal. Either Taco Bell is […]
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I’ve written about this before, but The Wall Street Journal ran another story about kids ‘n cards from generations past. The little fools without the foresight to see how much money was to be made from keeping those baseball cards in pristine condition. Sorry, kid, you’ll have to go to a commuter college, Daddy din’t […]
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Stephen King at the Tuesday night game between the Red Sox and Rays. Note the book title: When Will There Be Good News? None to be found that night, since Tampa was beatin’ the bejesus out of Boston.
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So just who do those Brits think they are, printing a piece like “How Baseball Explains the U.S. Elections“? Somewhere I’m sure there’s an article about World Series winners as a predictor of the Presidential elections. Hmm, let’s see. Since the first World Series in 1903 (the Fall Classic wasn’t played in 1904), 25 have […]
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When I was studying television arts in college, we learned about FCC rules, including the concept of equal times to be afforded to candidates. The premise was that if a TV program had candidate A on for 15 minutes, they had to offer the same consideration to candidate B. Since I posted an entry about […]
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Former baseball star Canseco detained at US border Associated Press headline, Oct. 11 The only way he’ll get back in is if he agrees not to write any more books.
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Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats, And toss my coffin in Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind When my last remains go flying over the left-field wall Will bid the bleacher bums adieu And I will […]
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Or “This is why we’re falling behind the other industrialized nations.” Bates College offers a course about “Red Sox Nation”
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This year marks the first time since 1995 that a New York team has not been in a playoff. So what will sportswriters cover during the playoffs? Well, The New York Times ran this story today, along with this sidebar, on those fancy patterns in the outfield grass. Want that look for your own backyard? […]
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Paul Newman has died at the age of 83. The blue-eyed heartthrob was one of those lucky performers able to enjoy his craft for decades. Newman appeared in Mark Harris’ Bang the Drum Slowly which was a production of the U.S. Steel Hour. You can watch the program here: Bang the Drum Slowly
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Fans have been talking incessantly about the Cubs’ failure to win a World Championship in the last 100 years. What often goes overlooked is how they got to that one. If it weren’t for the infamous baserunning blunder by a New York Giants rookie (actually playing in his second season), the Cubs’ futility record would […]
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How could they not?
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Jim Bouton will discuss his bubble-gum emporium with “a business audience in DeWitt Tuesday.” Not sure if that means it’s closed to the general public and there’s no further information. But I guess if you’re in the area, you can contact the writer.
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The Sept. 17 Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC featured an interview with Assemblyman Richard Brodsky whose report, “The House That You Built,” decired the new stadium as a burden on the New York taxpayer. Give a listen: And here’s the full report: The House That You Built, by Assemblyman Richard Brodsky http://audio.wnyc.org/bl/bl091708dpod.mp3Podcast: Play in new […]
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September 24, 2008
The Red Sox won their game last night against the Indians, bringing an end to the Yankees’ string, which reaches back to 1995. Some would say that any sports season is a failure if you don’t come away with a championship. Others disagree, believing it’s all relative (just ask any franchise that’s been mired in […]
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