Oh boy. No one. Not one of the 37 players eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame got enough votes to get into it this year. Why? Well, because a whole lot of members of the Baseball Writers Association of America developed a case of morals. Too many of the potential inductees, you see, had …
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The Wildcats beat the Trojans! That may have to make up for the Giants taking an early 2 – 0 lead on the Tigers as the only good news of the afternoon so far.
I’m paying attention to politics, but I’m also paying attention to the World Series. Did you know the two teams have never met in the postseason? The Giants have reached the World Series 19 times, the Tigers 11 times. Yet this is their first date for the championship. Eight teams have reached the World Series …
This has to be a good omen. The Yankees left the bases loaded and got no runs in the first inning of Game One of the LCS this evening. Update: My goodness, they did it twice more in the first six innings. Fister pitched a whale of a game, and then Valverde blew it for …
but this: May the Yankees be destroyed by the Tigers in the ALCS. May they be swept into oblivion ignominiously, and may they take their obnoxious fans with them.
Which means doing laundry while watching playoff baseball. I’m a little disappointed that the Tigers now have a 2-game edge in their series with the As, but I’m delighted that the Nationals are a game up on the Cards and the Reds are a game up on the Giants. The Orioles and Yankees are in …
Yesterday’s labors resulted in this: This blog is meant to be a home for refugees from Jon Weisman’s Dodger Thoughts blog, which he closed down in September of 2012 due to a lack of time to devote to it. It’s a work in progress. I was a reader of Jon’s blog from its earliest days …
The Dodgers’ win last night kept the Reds from clinching the NL Central, but the successor to the Big Red Machine gets another chance today. Any combination of a Reds win or a Cardinals loss gives the Queen City its second division title in three years after fifteen years without one. Young Mr. Fife takes …
Noted guitarist and pretty-good pitcher Bronson Arroyo leads the Reds into battle against the Boys in Blue this evening. The Reds have already clinched a spot in the playoffs, and could clinch their division if they win tonight. Lineup: Ellis, M, 2B Ethier, A, RF Kemp, M, CF Gonzalez, A, 1B Ramirez, H, SS Cruz, …
Trying to figure out how to do multiple blogs with one installation of WordPress, I mean. I may try to put one up to provide a home for commenters who’ve been left homeless as the incomparable Jon Weisman shuts down his Dodger Thoughts blog. We’ll see. To the DT folks: Update #1: It would be …