All I can say is wow: ol’ Murray impresses once again
He’s taunting me. That’s the only explanation I can possibly come up with. The “he,” of course, is our old friend Murray Chass. He’s finally moved on from his Ahab-esque obsession with the J.D. Drew...
View ArticleYou thought last year’s Mets series was crazy? Wait until Wednesday.
When my baseball game-watching career is over, I have no doubt that being present when Pedro returned to Boston in a Mets uniform will be one of the highlights (along with that ’99 one hitter at Yankee...
View ArticleLook, over there! On Deadspin! Or: about last night
No, I haven’t fallen into a stupor after last night’s King Felix-Dice K match up; I spent the day on the Acela, heading back home (yes, to New York). Also, the brilliant Will Leitch, the man behind...
View ArticleDice-K’s mediocre Saturday start…and this week’s readings
Quick thoughts on this weekend’s Giants series, of which I attended games two and three: * Saturday was most definitely not Dice-K’s best game of the season; it was, however, an illustration of one of...
View ArticleDice-K: Get screwed by the Sox offense, local press
“St. PETERSBURG, Fla. — This certainly isn’t what the Red Sox expected when they shelled out $100 million, give or take a nickel, to obtain the services of Daisuke Matsuzaka. They didn’t...
View ArticleDirecTV, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
I’m visiting my in-laws on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and I wake up at 5:30 to watch the game. I have the coffee all ready to go, my bowl of Cheerios in front of me, and nobody trying to snag the...
View ArticleWhere have you gone, J.D. Drew…a nation turns its sleepy eyes to you
I’ve been a fan Millers Falls statistician Chuck Waseleski — whose telling (and not so telling) bits of arcana have appeared the Globe under the heading “From the maniacal one” for lo these many years....
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