The last days were ugly. The ballclub had been in disarray for weeks, faced with a Brobdingnagian series of heartbreaking losses and baserunning buffoonery the likes of which had rarely been seen since the 1962 New York Metropolitans. The clubhouse air was dank and dismal, tasting faintly of mustard and failure. Even Angel Berroa, always […]
Continue reading →Hey, everyone! Man, having this weekend off was very therapeutic. I got some family time in, which was nice — have you seen “Avatar, the Last Airbender” on Nickelodeon? Now THAT is the way anime is supposed to be DONE! — and I had the time to watch the show without me, which is rare, […]
Continue reading →Okay, okay, I know it’s all over the Internet that my Unified Theory of Baseball doesn’t work — stupid Nook Logan and his 6th-inning scratch singles! — but that’s okay. I’ve had some dark nights of the soul in the last week; luckily, since I’m so damned genial, it was only two nights, and the […]
Continue reading →Neifi! in Thunder I am not sure that I have ever seen anything like this in all my years of covering baseball — although I might have missed it, considering the fact that I am also the fiction editor of the New Yorker, and therefore get to see Jhumpa Lahiri on a regular basis. […]
Continue reading →Hello, BBTN fans! I’ve been waiting to post here for the first few days, much like the way a good batter might “sit on” the first few deliveries from an unfamiliar pitcher. But now that I know things are going well, I feel like Albert Pujols looking at a hanging curve from some rook fresh […]
Continue reading →Well, I finally figured out everything there is to know about baseball. That’s the good news. The bad news is: I finally figured everything out about baseball. Over the years I’ve covered this great, frustrating, wonderful game, I guess I’ve gotten a reputation as one of the guys who actually knows stuff, coupled with an […]
Continue reading →[Glad am I, Roger Angell, to join thee in thy noble enterprise. Glad, and thrilled, and humbled. To finally be logged on, after all this time; and to be asked to contribute to a ‘blog by my good friend Peter Gammons…well, it is humbling, and unnerving, and enriching. I shall endeavor — much like LaTroy […]
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