Jon Weisman transcribes a Red Barber television interview from 1982 during which he describes how Vin Scully got his start: I was out at the end of the football season, doing a California-Stanford football game. And at halftime, the engineer handed me a note and said, “Ernie Harwell has joined Russ Hodges at the Polo […]

TUCK! toons every Thursday!

I was on News-Talk 1400 WDWS AM’s SportsTalk show this afternoon talking baseball with host Brian Moline. You can hear the broadcast — in fancy podcast form — here. I come in at the four minute mark, and we talk about blogging, the Cardinals, the Cubs, Geoff Baker, Sir Sidney and a few other things. […]

Slate has a good article up arguing the superiority of the dead-center camera over the traditional, slightly-offset camera. I’m in favor of the dead-center, which ESPN toyed with for a year or two and which the Red Sox, Cardinals and Twins use now. This dissent from the article is understandable, however: There are also television […]

Via Sons of Steve Garvey, here’s Eric Collins and Steve Lyons during last night’s Dodgers-White Sox game: Lyons: Do you follow some of the other whacked-out statistical categories that are nouveau to the game of baseball? Collins: I do. It’s — Lyons: What are they? Collins: Well, you got defensive — for the first time […]

I don’t read the New York tabloids that often, so until YankeeFanLen sent me this link the other day I had never seen any of Bill Gallo’s sports cartoons, at least not that I know of. Mercy. On one level I appreciate the effort and the artistry involved. And it certainly takes one back to […]

Why some arguments don’t need to be had.

With big evil bloggers threatening their very existence, the newspapers have finally called upon the Judean People’s Front crack suicide squad! The Newport (R.I.) Daily News will now charge $145 annually to a newspaper subscriber, $245 if a subscriber wants the paper and access to the paper’s web site—and, here’s the key figure, $345 if […]

While posting was a bit slower the last couple of days, a lot of that had to do with the epic Geoff Baker thread. It certainly captured my reading and thinking attention and, at least for a while this morning and early afternoon, writing attention. At the risk of hyperbole, I think the comments in […]

Note: I’m giving this post from yesterday a bump for two reasons: First, it was posted kind of late, and a lot of people don’t scroll back past ATH on a given day, so it’s “new” to a lot of readers; Second, because Geoff Baker his ownself waded into the comments thread last night. I […]