I am appealing to the ‘net for help in solving what has become a family mystery. Cross-posted to my sports blog as well, because I’m looking for any reasonable clues. And yes, I got the idea from Clay Shirkey’s Here Comes Everybody. Not as exciting as a misappropriated cell phone, but perhaps of [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Baseball category.
Billy Martin Inverted
Billy Martin, the late manager of various 1970s Yankees teams, whose career arc had more loops, detours, and sideways movement than the emotional rollercoaster it described, once said: “When you’re running horseshit, you’re horseshit.” Those are true Billy clubs of words, captured with the eloquence I’d expect out of baseball’s disco era. Like [...]
Going For Joe
I find myself in a strange position this first week of October: There’s baseball on TV, and I am only counting the days until hockey coverage begins. In every fall since I’ve been able to carve out sports-watching time (read: after the great sleeplessness of having two toddlers), I’ve been able to cheer for [...]
Persistence of Memory
A family trip to Cincinnati was punctuated with a trip to see Reds game. Their relatively new stadium is a wonderful place to see a baseball game on a spring afternoon. On the plus side: parking was easy an hour before the first pitch. Entrance was eased by plenty of security and [...]
180 Feet on 5 Legs
Whenever we teach “teamwork” to our kids or employees, we always imply that it’s intra-team work. And when we teach players to establish goals, far too often we imply winning or awards, rather than simple objectives that demonstrate improvement in any aspect of the game. This video segment from ESPN shows [...]
Goat Rodeo
One of my co-workers refers to anything that involves confusion, lack of leadership, conflicting goals, and mild amounts of directionless meandering as a “goat rodeo.” That’s the best metaphor for the New York Yankees right now. A-Rod and Posada are hurt (hey, A-Rod, for $275 million dollars, try staying in shape in [...]
One Shining Moment, Every Season
My friend Claire always wonders what makes us love sports so much. By “us”, of course, she means guys who have severe Claire-attention deficit problems when a game of even minor interest is broadcast over television, radio, internet, or via grunts and hand signals nearby. I’ve thought about her question for close [...]
The Bronx is Churning
It’s been a few days since Joe Torre’s implicit dismissal as the Yankee skipper, coming full circle with Joe Girardi’s filling the managerial jersey today. I’m still flabbergasted by this move: Torre was micro-managed from above (like he couldn’t figure out how to pitch Joba Chamberlain himself?), was given horrible resources to [...]
Stomping On The Devils Grass Roots Support
I’m now officially worried that the Devils organization is proceeding with complete and total oblivion to the fan base, or at least to how the fan base communicates, collaborates and exchanges ideas in the world of user-generated content and media. We’re not all sitting here waiting for the official line on ticket [...]
Missed, er, October
Almost precisely 3 months ago I posited that Scott Gomez and Alex Rodriguez were increasingly alike.
Let me add to the list: neither one has shown up for big games in October. At least Gomez recorded three shots tonight (plus one miss, and one blocked, is it me or are the new NHL statistics [...]
