Jose Reyes hit for the cycle tonight. My son and I saw the triple, which made him 3-3 and left Reyes only a single away from accomplishing the feat, and then we managed to catch his single that put him on this list of rare accomplishments.
What other baseball statistical class [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2006
Remembering The Goofy Stuff
Links, Communities and Cycles
Tonight’s post-Mets game quiz question: What baseball statistical community includes Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio, Yaz, Honus Wagner, Willie Stargell and Ted Williams, but excludes Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and every single Yankees player since 1996? Answer: Players who have hit for the cycle, collecting one hit of each type [...]
Simple Customer Service
Part of my amusement about frequent flyer status is that I’ve spent an entire work day stuck in airports, and it’s only Wednesday. Monday had me in the nation’s capital for a conference on multi-level security, with thunderstorms in both DC and Newark setting back my return by 4 hours. Last night was a [...]
Platinum to Ytterbium
Am I the only one who finds ascribing precious metals to loyalty levels a bit strange? For years, Continental Airlines had bronze, silver and gold status; gold became an insufficient differentiator and platinum frequent flyers arrived. When you’re stacked up 20 deep at Newark airport, the all-points goes out for Elite Access boarding [...]
Community Editing of the News
The New Jersey Devils named Claude Julien as their new head coach today just after noon eastern time. Within an hour, Julien’s wikipedia entry had been updated to show his new affiliation with the Garden State.
It’s a good leading indicator when the engineering hive mind beats the news media to a [...]
End of an Era
We experienced the end of a short era on a ball field this Saturday afternoon. After seven years of organized youth baseball, from “rookies” run-around mornings to T-ball, coach-pitch league to “real” baseball and four years of playing on the 60-foot diamond with an (almost) full set of Williamsport rules, my son played [...]
Doing Deals: What Order?
Lou Lamoriello has his hands full. He needs a coach that the players will respect and to whom they’ll respond. He needs to sign a line or two of free agents, and shore up the blue line with more speed and less size. What’s a GM to do first?
Here’s [...]
Blogging and the NBA Finals
I sincerely, totally, completely hope the Mavs win the NBA Finals. And it’s not because I love Dallas or even like basketball, but because I’m pulling for Mark Cuban to continue to upset the establishment in just about everything he does.
I want to see what kind of trouble — visual, audio, or on-line — [...]
