I’ve always loved baseball. The crack of the bat. The cheer of the crowd. The intoxicating power of the game’s biggest stars. As a child getting pummeled by bullies in Miami after my parents went through a scarring divorce, the daily boxscores were all I had to hold on to to keep my life from […]
Continue reading →ALAN: It was nice to see you when I went home last month even though it was a sad time with my dad being sick and everything. I hope every thing is cool with you guys at the Lincoln Maintenance Department. I still say it was the best job I ever had! You guys are […]
Continue reading →We break format in our Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning 2008 Season Preview to reprint a recent speech from Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, which seemed to be a pretty good Pittsburgh Pirates preview to us. We here present this speech excerpt, delivered last Thursday in Erie, Pennsylvania, with special permission from the Obama campaign. Thanks, […]
Continue reading →A wise man once said, “It ain’t over ’til the kind-of-hot former stripper and Oscar-winning screenwriter sings.” Well, our season preview won’t be over until we hear from Hollywood’s new it-girl, Juno scribe — and Entertainment Weekly columnist — Diablo Cody. Hey there, home fries. It’s me, your girl Dizzy D, lost and found in […]
Continue reading →As we dance to the music of life, We must remember that the steps matter not; What matters is the energy, the attitude, the love — Well, these things and on-base percentage. In the year of the phoenix* Many secrets will be revealed, Many surprises will be uncovered, Kabir says, and the Marlins will suck. […]
Continue reading →The Bataan Death March that is our 2008 preview rolls on. Here, we give some heartbeat props to scribe Cormac McCarthy, whose profile has surged of late thanks to a close personal friendship with Oprah and some serious love from a couple of fellers from Minnesota. He previews his beloved Texas Rangers through the eyes […]
Continue reading →What, you think we ain’t got the moves? Here, our 2008 preview rolls on with Mr. Bob Costas, the Paul McCartney of American sports kommentariat. Salutations, baseball lovers. Isn’t this the best time of year? Somewhere, leather is popping, crusty old bench coaches are spitting and swearing and scratching themselves, and the only things greener […]
Continue reading →To continue our Nobel-worthy 2008 season preview, we focus on the San Francisco Giants — and who better to preview this team than the city’s most beloved columnist (and inventor of the terms “beatnik” and “hippie”), Herb Caen? Ol’ “Three Dots” has been out of commission since 1997, but we are proud that he came […]
Continue reading →Continuing our stunningly comprehensive series, we are proud to welcome award-winning hipster-bait Japanese author Haruki Murakami. His novels include Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore; he has also published non-fiction and about one million short stories in The New Yorker. He checks in from […]
Continue reading →Welcome back to the Yard Work 2008 Season Preview. In Part Three of our series, broadcaster/actor/pitchman Bob Uecker previews the team for whom he is the radio voice: the Milwaukee Brewers. 1. We believe in the supreme reality of the Brewers. The urgent collective task of all Brewers fans is to strengthen, elevate, and aggrandize […]
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