Archive for the 'ShysterBall' Category

Russ Smith at Splice Today, after some kind words about Tim Marchman with which I wholeheartedly agree, wonders what it might look like if managers went all Connie Mack on us, sartorially speaking: I really think it’d be swell to see managers in Sunday church threads, making their way to the mound with a tie […]

Here’s a link to both the auido and a somewhat truncated text of an NPR story I heard yesterday concerning a new documentary about Luis Tiant called “The Lost Son of Havana.” The film tells the story of Tiant’s return to Cuba after 46 years, and it sounds pretty amazing: Tiant had been pitching for […]

A reader from St. Louis is not happy with the fact that Cardinals season ticket holders who want to go to the All-Star Game are forced to buy tickets to the FanFest and Home Run Derby business too: My wife and I purchase a share-a-seat plan in the bleachers. The annual cost for these two […]

Some stathead stereotypes are unfair: very few of them, I have found, live in their mothers’ basements. They’re good with computers and stuff, so they got jobs and rented apartments and bought condos. Sure, those apartments and condos are every bit as sad as their mothers’ basements would have been given the 100% absence of […]

In 1975, the NBC Friday night lineup was “Sanford and Son” at 8, “Chico and the Man” at 8:30, “Rockford Files” at 9, and “Police Woman at 10.” That’s outrageously solid, but check out what CBS was dropping at the same time: “Big Eddie,” “M*A*S*H,” “Hawaii Five-O,” and “Barnaby Jones.” What did people do back […]

Either THT or NBC needs to let me do something like this pretty soon: Travis Greene swears there was no beer involved when he came up with this idea of driving 15,000 miles to see 30 ballparks in 30 days. Sitting yesterday afternoon in the upper deck of PNC Park with Pedro Cunillera and Joey […]

CRASH STEPS OUT OF THE BOX — Motions to the bat boy for the pine tar rag. The boy brings it over. Crash re-applies it to his bat. BAT BOY Get a hit, Crash. CRASH Shut up. BAT BOY Well, then, get off my lawn.

Giants 1, Padres 0: Barry Zito was dominant. In other news, “A Beautiful Mind” has won Best Picture, the Queen Mother has died at the age of 101, and I’m under 30, childless, and have money. Hello, and welcome to the exciting year 2002! Cardinals 5, Mets 2: To my own two eyes it appears […]

When I was a kid, I’d range all over Tiger Stadium after a game collecting discarded All-Star ballots and make my family wait for me as I punched out Tiger names in dozens of the things before handing them to a kindly usher or dropping them into the big box at the top of the […]

MLBAM is launching its own online, opinion-based “tabloid” in May: MLB Advanced Media will formally announce today that in May it will debut what’s meant to be a online baseball newspaper featuring columnists, including NBC/MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann . . . . . . Bowman says the as-yet unnamed site will try to offer “a newspaper […]