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Baseball: Is it time to rethink our "National Pastime"?
I love baseball. I love it in sepia toned photographs. I adore watching old men with names like Stan, Ted, Whitey, and Sparky, carry on about the old days in front of a soft focus lens that would make Diane Sawyer weep with delight. I love sabermetricians, Billy Beane, and Money Ball. I love...
Let's Go to the Videotape: Mets Promos of Yesteryear
With the first embryonic forms of baseball still weeks away, I am feeling wistful for the Mets promos of yesteryear. Come with me on a video journey through time, won't you? The earliest example of a Mets promo I could locate is this no-frills commercial for a 1978 double header against the...
Transcript Of Justin Timberlake Trolling Joe Buck On Live Television During The All Star Game (Now With Video!)
During tonight's All Star Game, FOX cut away to a sideline interview with Justin Timberlake, star of the upcoming film Friends With Benefits. Most of the time these types of interviews are banal, "tell us about your movie" borefests. But Timberlake had other ideas. He heaped what had to be...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Tropicana Field Again Welcomes Georgia Fans on Holiday
My wife and I have established a pattern for our annual family vacation to Florida. We drive as far as my parents’ house in South Georgia on the first day, stay with my folks, awaken at a ludicrous hour in the dead of night, and drive as long as possible before the kids awaken. This leads,...
This Week In SNY/Fox/ESPN
This week's edition is a bit late and includes Sunday night's festivities. Away we go: Sunday, April 24th A special guest dropped by to torment Diamondbacks right fielder Justin Upton: It's BJ the giant spider, from BJ's Clubhouse! Tuesday, April 26th SNY anchor Gary Apple is FIRED UP about...
Let's Go to the Videotape: Remember '88
I am a huge fan of the Mets Yearbook series on SNY. These season recaps are interesting time capsules and rare ones as well, considering the paucity of MLB footage from the 1960s and 1970s. I also like how you can tell a year was an especially bad one for he team when the special spends as much...
2007 Airing of Grievances - 12/31/07
Monday, December 31, 2007As the great Frank Costanza once uttered, "I've got a lot of problems with you people, and now you're going to hear about it". In keeping with the tradition of the Festivus season, I will air my grievances with members of the sports world and all the ways they have...
Tim McCarver shouldn't have a (bleep)ing job, for the love of Pete
Does anyone here on this site own the book pictured to the right? Anyone at all? Come on. Admit it if you do. Just come right out and say it. You DO? You're banned. Tim McCarver crossed over again into unmatched "analytical" territory during the All-Star game last night. He had some true gems. Now,...
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