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 →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 →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 […]
Continue reading →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 […]
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