2008 Season Preview: Arizona Diamondbacks

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 […]

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A Grizzled Man

Barry Bonds is a force of nature, an atavistic beast of sensation. He is alpha and omega, Cain and Abel, the killer and the victim. He wields a carven piece of maple the way a tornado would nonchalantly dismiss an Oklahoman trailer park. Though he no longer possesses the speed he once did, he still […]

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On Being a Tough Guy. A Regular Guy. And a Dodgers Fan.

I was born in Chicago but I don’t like the White Sox or the Cubs. You know why? F*ck you, that’s why. I also live in New England part of the year but I am not a Red Sox fan. Two reasons. First, they are no longer the Jews of baseball. Second, their fans are […]

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