On May 13, 2009, Richard Barbieri attended the Mets game at CitiField. That game was the last to fit in his current scorebook, which has served him since September of 2002. Richard looks back at some of the 99 games of history contained within.
Jane Heller was stuck in her house in Santa Barbara at the height of the recent wildfire. She understandably freaked out a bit, but something kept her sane: The phone rang with rumors of friends whose houses were burning to the ground. The local television stations suspended their regular programming to cover the fire nonstop […]
This week is turning out to be a real bummer on the work front, so apologies for the lighter content. There will certainly be more stuff to come today, and next week things should be back to normal, but it will still be a little bit sluggish today and tomorrow. In the meantime: The umpire […]
Hal McCoy of the Dayton Daily News thinks that sportswriting is dying. Jason at IIATMS disagrees. You can probably guess where I come down on this.
Lots of games got delayed last night due to rain causing them to end after my usual bedtime. As such, there wasn’t a chance that I was going to be able to be as comprehensive with these recaps as I usually am, seeing as though I’m writing way more of them this morning than I […]