That, and Livan didn’t help much either. Oh well, six months and I can root for the A’s again. But hey, they played hard, and I’m proud of them. After all, the Angels may have won the series, but they still work for Eisner.
Game One, Giants. Too ’nuff said.
Update: Tony’s agreed to the wager. My forfeit is now $20 if the Angels sweep. So it’s a SF/LA series. Giants versus Angels. P2P versus the RIAA. Wine versus The Mouse. Software versus Hollywood. Liberals versus Conservatives. Tony says the Angels will sweep the Giants. Feh. He says the Giants’ pitching staff is overrated. Feh. [...]
If all goes well, the hated Yankees will be gone from the World Series race this afternoon. Thanks Angels. However, Oaktown is going to 0wn you in the ALCS. Oh fsck, I just turned on the game… 11 – 2 Twinkies? Come on A’s, don’t make me look the f00l. Damnit. We’re going back to [...]
[ via RC3 ] Keith Olbermann’s writing for Salon: I can summon effortlessly from my memory an image of an NYPD officer standing outside the New York Stock Exchange that morning. There was still so much smoke downtown that until I got within a few feet of him, I couldn’t tell whether he was wearing [...]
David Gergen interviewed Steven Jay Gould, who died yesterday, back in 1996. The interview highlights what I liked about him: how he clarifies what this scary thing natural selection means, and his polymath mind. Pinker, Dennet, and Dawkins — the heart of evolutionary biology’s batting order — often denegrated Gould’s writings as trivial. However, having [...]
[ via Glish.com ] Joe Morgan wrote a nice guide for watching a baseball game: where to look to understand the inside game; how camera angles confuse our perception of the action; and why “small ball”, the underappreciated art of getting runners on base and moving them around with base hits rather than home runs, [...]
[ via Michael Rawdon ] My friend Andy Hooper does an occasional fanzine called “9 Innings”, where he narrates one of his trips to a Major League Baseball game. Those fanzines helped turn me onto baseball because Andy knows the game and can bring the history, and insider knowledge to the fore. I hope he [...]
[ via RC3.org ] Opening day’s a few days away, so it’s time to throw brickbats at the Comissioner everyone loves to hate: Think about that for a minute. In a multi-billion-dollar industry whose largest investors include Disney, News Corp., AOL Time Warner, and the Tribune Company, a car dealer from Milwaukee not only dictates [...]
[ via Oliver Willis ] So who was the better team? The World Champion 1989 A’s or the Wild Card Champion 2001 A’s? Correction: It was the 1989 and not the 1990 A’s who were World Champions in the Earthquake Series. Thanks to observant Reds fan Robert Ralentz for the correction.
MLB hero Cal Ripken’s bought a minor leauge club and is relocating it to Maryland. I hate it when small clubs move (bows head in memory of the Madison Muskees), but I’m also glad to see that Ripken’s keeping involved in the Game. Why did I link to the BBC version of this story? Well, [...]
From SFGate: a movie of Bonds’ 70th Home Run. I’m going to the final game of the season, against LA, this Sunday. I’m with a group in the outfield bleachers and I’m bringing my glove. [ QuickTime ]
[ via Cyn Gonsalves ] Gotta love those A’s.
AlterNet lists their choices for America’s thirteen scariest white guys. Besides the usual suspects, they include NY Yankee hurler Roger Clemens (not only did he bean Piazza, but he left Boston for New York.)
It could be worse, he could be President. Finally, as the first 100 days drew to a close, the Bush Commission reported a severe scarcity of baseballs. The shortage is attributed to a scarcity of leather resultant from recent incidents of mad cow and foot & mouth disease. The A’s, Padres, Giants, and Dodgers seem [...]