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 →This is the 1st time I have spoken to you, the fans of baseball, since I have resigned my post as president of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Unlike President Richard Nixon, who was afforded the comfort of addressing the nation from the Oval Office one final time before his untimely departure, I am penning […]
Continue reading →Yard Work’s glorious 2008 Season Preview is just about half-way done! And just in time for the end of Spring Training, too! Today’s installment comes from one of this site’s favorite go-to guys, and the only man in baseball history to fire both Tony LaRussa and Dave Dombrowski, Chicago White Sox broadcaster Ken “Hawk” Harrelson. […]
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 →“Yard Work, Spring 2008: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” continues as we welcome legendary play-by-play announcer Jim Ross with his preview of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007 and is also a great cook. With Opening Day less than two weeks away, tensions are […]
Continue reading →Hello baseball fans! I can’t believe it’s almost time for the season to start again! It feels like it was just last October that I was in Colorado watching the Red Sox win another World Series, and it was. But now it’s Spring Training time, and this has to be my most favorite time of […]
Continue reading →This is David Smithson Michaels, welcoming you back to another edition of DUCK SNORTS. It looks like Spring Training is getting close to the end, and Opening Day is only a few more weeks away. As players compete for those final roster spots, and managers work on their lineups, here’s what’s been happening in baseball […]
Continue reading →The Yard Work 2008 Season Preview cannot be stopped! Until it’s finished! Shake and bake! Today’s preview features hard-hitting Los Angeles Times columnist T.J. Simers talking about the Los Angeles Dodgers with his Times colleague, Bill Plaschke. Bill Plaschke has written for the LA Times for over twenty years, twelve of those as a sports […]
Continue reading →Yard Work is proud to welcome back Chicago Sun-Times music critic Jim Derogatis, who makes his first-ever trip to spring training to lurk in the bleachers with Trent Reznor, where he finds the Nine Inch Nails frontman sounding off about Josh Beckett, the Florida sun, and his brilliant new album “Ghosts I-IV” When Trent Reznor […]
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 […]
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