I'm resigned to seeing the nose hairs of everybody in both dugouts between pitches, but when a pickoff throw is made would you consider switching away from the close-up angle so we can see what's going on? And would you consider hiring a color commentator...
Month: October 2004
Condolences to Mike Hargrove, new Mariners manager. He has the misfortune of having been selected as Bill Bavasi's victim for the next couple of years. That said, not a bad manager,.
The Poor Man on Imperial Hubris: The longest Tacitus post ever. Half right, half wrong, but mostly concerned with stridently asserting the author's own moral superiority to anyone at a higher.
Game 5 of the ALCS had an 18.4 rating. This was higher than NBC and ABC combined--and ABC was showing Monday night football. Not something that's gotten much attention. Whenever a weak MNF games beats a baseball playoff game, however, we're treated to any number...
Cool class. I wish I could take courses from Brad Delong and Barry Eichengreen. I suppose I could try to keep up with the readings, but we all know that's.
How to put Schilling, Game 6, into historical perspective? The referents aren't Koufax in 1965, Beckett last year, like that; he was outstanding, but it's not about dominance per se..
I missed the bad calls last night, but let's all give props to the crew for two gutsy and absolutely correct reversals. I also give grudging respect for the canny fan who took a HR in the gut to tr to make it look like...
Since I was (justly) hard on the umpires yesterday, I must note that they got their two egregious blown calls tonight correct, which is all you can ask. Memo to.
In the latest New York Review of Books, the various regular contributors have given us their thoughts on the 2004 election. Is this election the most consequential of our lives? I'm.
I had intended to blog about Jim DeMint's ridiculous dodging of questions about the implications of his abortion position on Press the Meat, but fortunately Atrios nails it. He brings up another good point that I think is worth further comment: I'm just about as close as...
Jesse and Ezra do a great job of taking apart Tommy Franks' NYT op-ed today. Franks' editorial is both self-serving and self-indicting; he claims that there was no proof Osama was located.
Yessssssssssssh. Particularly appropriate given the previous two atbats, which culminated in an awful third strike call, and then a blown call on a stolen base that even the late Ray.