December 2010
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May 2010
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“We want our favorites to be great out there, and when that stops we feel...”
– Roger Angell, in an afterword to an essay called “Quis,” about Royals closer Dan Quisenberry. It was published in the New Yorker in September of 1985, as the Royals were closing in on their first and only World Series championship. He added the afterword for a collection called Season...
May 17th
WatchWatch
Aha! The fabled Taser segment from Inside the NBA. 
May 5th
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March 2010
1 post
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February 2010
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Let's put this matter to bed
Genius stitching and polaroid by: That Kate.
Feb 3rd
January 2010
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Jan 26th
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November 2009
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July 2009
1 post
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Royal-ly sucking
Zack Greinke’s lockdown pitching during the bottom of the fourth inning of tonight’s All-Star game made me wonder: When was the last time a Royal looked great in an All-Star game? Of course Bo Jackson’s epic home run to lead off the 1989 All-Star game comes to mind. Royals Review helpfully offers a brief history of Royal participation in the All-Star game over the past decade. ...
Jul 15th
May 2009
1 post
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Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole
In a field / I am the absence / of field. / This is / always the case. / Wherever I am / I am what is missing — Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole”
May 3rd
March 2009
5 posts
“One football gridiron is identical to another, but a baseball field, once you...”
– New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger in an article about New York’s two new ballparks
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October 2008
1 post
“Baseball is good for one thing only: the production of data. That’s what I...”
– Ken Tremendous of Fire Joe Morgan, in response to an article that was dismissive of stats.
Oct 2nd
September 2008
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June 2008
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Jun 17th
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Ideas / NBA Season Ticket, the trash-talk edition
I’ve got the killer app for the NBA television-viewing experience, something that will melt faces around the world and provide the league with yet another license to print money. (Props to Justin and Zidane who sparked this idea last night as we watched Game 3.) You could call it: NBA 360, or the Courtside Package, or the Real NBA Courtside 360 Package or whatever, but the concept is simple...
Jun 12th
May 2008
1 post
The NBA / Where accountability happens
Mark Cuban is not afraid to talk about the blockbuster trade that wasn’t … [Donnie Nelson, Avery Johnson and I] went back and forth about whether or not we should trade Devin [Harris]. We knew he was a good point guard, with the potential to be amazing. What we didn’t know was how long that would take. On one hand, we didn’t have enough confidence in him to let him call...
May 9th