Archive for General

Stuff I wrote while thinking of the best way to taunt the lead singer of a 1980s British synth-pop band (explained below) . . . Matt Holliday’s “friend” says Holliday wants to be a New York Yankee. The “friend” lives in Canada. You wouldn’t know him. Should the Sox trade Papelbon and install Bard as […]

I don’t have anything snarky to say about Steve Phillips’ situation. Some bad judgment on his part has led to an ugly and possibly scary situation, and that’s no good for anyone involved, whatever their foibles. But man, if the dude was going to get kicked off ESPN for a week, you’d at least hope […]

Yankees 10, Angels 1: I-95 Series here we come. As the geniuses out there predicted, CC was studly on short rest. As has been the case all postseason, A-Rod was huge (3-for-4, two-run homer, three runs scored). Man, that umpiring. Calling Swisher out on the tagup play was an obvious makeup call. Of course, like […]

The Mariano Rivera stuff obviously struck a nerve today. For what it’s worth, I stand by my posts on it, both here and at NBC. There was a video that showed something interesting. I raised some questions about it and doubted whether simply saying “Mariano would never do such a thing” was enough to put […]

In the interests of preserving the surprise, I won’t tell you which Minnesota catcher and which St Louis first baseman are my choices for MVP.

If St. Louis baseball fans are so great and “die-hard” why aren’t the Browns still in St. Louis? — Commenter “Bamboozled” in “Teh Yankees are the greatest, dood!” post. I often use this feature to mock, but I can’t decide if this one is mock-worthy or brilliant. I’m leaning brilliant. The actual mouth breathers over […]

So I go to the science museum with the kids yesterday. They have this feature where, via a gigantic lever, a person can lift up a full-sized car. My five year-old daughter and four year-old boy think it’s awesome. When they ask me how they could lift a car, I tell them that the thing […]

Query: Is George Sherrill really “the Pride of Memphis” as Chip Caray said last night? How many people in Memphis actually know him and what he does for a living and truly take pride in it? You certainly have family, some high school teammates and what, a few dozen other people? I bet the number […]

If anyone cares, I finished season three of “The Wire” last night. It just gets better and better, as you all said it would. Again, no spoilers for those of us who haven’t seen it all yet, but I will offer a question: why on Earth didn’t HBO do an Omar/Brother Mouzone spinoff? If people […]

As I mentioned yesterday, I have to be in court this morning, so I won’t have anything here until this afternoon. I did write six posts for NBC, however, that will be going live as the morning progresses. Among the topics: Ron Darling’s tax trouble, the Dodgers’ playoff rotation, the desirability (or not) of a […]