The train keeps a-rollin’ here at the Yard Work 2008 Season Preview! Today we present to you the Cincinnati Reds, courtesy of America’s favorite bat-boy, Darren Baker. Hello my name is Darren Baker and my dad is famous World Series and Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker but he is now in the Reds who are […]
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 →In 2004, best-selling authors Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan teamed up to write Faithful, a day-by-day account of the Boston Red Sox championship season as experienced through the eyes of two diehard fans. Now that Boston has once again climbed to the summit of their sport, we here at Yard Work are proud to re-team […]
Continue reading →Continuing our award-baiting preview of the 2008 Major League Baseball season, Yard Work is proud to present Scott Templeton‘s report on the Baltimore Orioles. Formerly of the Baltimore Sun, Mr. Templeton is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist currently contributing to the New Republic and the New York Times. We hope you enjoy his unique and […]
Continue reading →Welcome to the latest installment of Yard Work’s 2008 Season Preview. Today’s preview comes from a currently defunct weblog [concerts.1111111kcrtickets.com/blog] whose content we assume is free for us to cut and paste into our own online publication that we do not consider a “blog” in the slightest. We’re using an incongruous pic of good old […]
Continue reading →Welcome to Part Four of our continuing 2008 Season Preview. Today’s topic is the Atlanta Braves, and today’s writer explains who the hell she is in the very first paragraph, so read on! Hello there everyone. My name is Alexyss K. Tylor, and I am the author of the best-selling book, and host of the […]
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 […]
Continue reading →Welcome back to the Yard Work 2008 Season Preview. Every day or so, up until and past Opening Day, some person from some place will sound off on some team. In Part Two of our series, Arizona Senator (and presidential hopeful) John McCain talks about his home-state Diamondbacks, and being old. As I’ve been touring […]
Continue reading →Well, it’s about damn time. Not like I was waiting around by my e-mail box, waiting for some jerk from big fancy pants “Yard Work” to finally invite me back to their nerdy little party — with my sweet XM Radio gig (with my buddy Double K) and my even sweeter Best Damn Fox stuff, […]
Continue reading →Welcome to the Yard Work 2008 Season Preview. Every day or so, up until and past Opening Day, some person from some place will sound off on some team. We begin, of course, with the Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles, and Angels TV color commentator Rex Hudler. Hey there baseball fans! Welcome back to another […]
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