Leo Note: This is a guest post (first ever!) about the Jeff Pearlman piece that went up on CNN.com the other day. Both Jon and I know the two “online haters” Pearlman is talking about, and Jon wanted to write about it. His blog is about Rutgers sports and it didn’t really fit, so I [...]
Archive of posts filed under the off the field category.
Off Season Time Wasters Part 2: Cats In Hats
Everybody with cats has an urge to try and make their animals wear the ice cream helmets you get at games as hats. If a cat owner tells you they don’t, it’s because of worry for their personal safety not because they don’t actually want to try it out. For the sake of science I [...]
The $5 Game Chronicles
In addition to the three partial season plans that I hold, I picked up three additional pairs of tickets from the pool of $5 games that the Yankees do each year. I wound up only being able to make one of them, and it wasn’t a very good game. I’m working on distracting myself from [...]
Wherein I Whine About Laptops
I go to a lot of baseball games during the season, mostly Yankees games. I am able to do so because I have a pretty good job and use most of my allocated entertainment funds on tickets and ticket plans. I don’t (usually) work crazy hours and I am (usually) not on call, but I [...]
Rumor: This Post Has Factual Information In It
Well that’s interesting, why do the Yankees want Ted Lilly (again)? Let me click on that link and find out: Oh, I guess they don’t then. There are two MLB teams in New York, please make sure that you are referencing the proper one in your link titles. You are professionals, after all.
Staten Island Boat Watch 2010
Richmond County Bank Ballpark is right next to the Ft. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island, which means that a lot of boats pass by. Most of them are rather normal and insignificant but sometimes more giant exciting ships are sighted. Last night was an extra good night for boat-watchers as three huge ships went [...]
When Pointing Fingers, Make Sure Your Aim Is True
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Queens), who released a report a day after the Daily News’ broke the story, blasted Major League Baseball for its exorbitant tack-on fees at a news conference Saturday. “There’s not a lot of rationality with these fees,” Weiner said. “Major League Baseball is nickel-and-diming the public, and it adds up to big [...]
Watching Baseball With My Cat
This week marked a new and rather sad chapter in my life. After twenty years, I had to say goodbye to my cat Francis who I had the pleasure of owning since he was born in my parents’ apartment. When I say owned, I mean that I took care of him and fed him and [...]
Behold: A Dumb Paragraph
There’s so much bizarre to terrible sports journalism that I don’t give it much attention unless it’s pretty egregious, and honestly that hasn’t happened in a while. A lot of the stuff that is totally out there is by professional trolls like Greg Doyel and so I don’t pay them any mind. I’m also not [...]
The Spreadsheets Are Back
Last year, I kept up (or did my best to keep up) two spreadsheets on Yankees pitching. Gamelogs that kept track of the usual stats (H, K, BB) plus groundballs, fly balls and line drives given up and then tallied the monthly totals. There were two spreadsheets because I kept one for the rotation and [...]
