Archive for General

Yovani Gallardo 1, Pirates 0: Yeah, you get top billing when you shut the other team out for eight innings, strikeout 11 and hit a homer for the game’s only run. Marlins 4, Mets 3: Despite the fact that Johan Santana has been repeatedly boned by his bullpen over the past couple of years, he […]

Bad morning with several phony work emergencies, so I only got four jabs in over at NBC: Barry Bonds is done playing baseball, so just cut it out. Let’s hear it for Rule 10.17(b)! It’s probably good that the MLB Network is going to broadcast the draft in prime time, but they should probably be […]

Yankees 11, Tigers 0: The motto of the Yankees’ bullpen after seeing the Tigers’ bullpen in action: “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” Speaking of bullpens, Phil Hughes started and threw six shutout innings which, if I understand New York thinking, means that we should […]

There are some people who claim that NBC didn’t promote Star Trek enough back during its original run, but that’s simply not true. There were loads of promotional materials, media kits, etc. released prior to its fall 1966 launch, and some of that stuff is an awful lot of fun to look at these days. […]

I’m a pretty major Bob Dylan fan, so putting him in a ballpark gets me 50% of the way towards my personal Nirvana (the remaining 50% would be covered by including corned beef sandwiches and a complicated brunette with a dark rhythm in her soul, though not necessarily in that order). For now we have […]

Mets 7, Marlins 1: Gary Sheffield played left field and immediately dropped a fly ball, so apparently it’s the position, not the player. Other than that, things were just fine for New York, as John Maine pitched well for once. And, as you know, you can’t stop Omir Santos, you can only hope to contain […]

It’s looking like a really ugly afternoon for me on the legal front, so these links may have to last you a bit. All apologies. Life will return to normal very soon: Stealing home is cool, but it could have been much cooler. Did Brian Wilson’s late night in Scottsdale cost the Giants a game? […]

As I had mentioned, on Friday evening I took the kids to their first ever baseball game. Indianapolis Indians vs. the Columbus Clippers at the shiny new Huntington Park in adequate downtown Columbus, Ohio. Fun was had by all, though I’m pretty sure the kids had no idea what to make of it. They liked […]

Red Sox 4, Yankees 1: Everyone will be talking about this one today because of Ellsbury stealing home. And I suppose it was a pretty neat trick. Just worth noting, though, that 11 guys did it twice in a game, that the single season record — held by Ty Cobb — is 8, and the […]

Today is one of those days where I actually have to put on my suit and tie and be a lawyer out in front of a court and God and everyone, so there won’t be any content at least until this afternoon and quite possibly at all depending on how good or bad court goes […]