Category Archives: Baseball

The D.H.

Posted on April 8, 2013 by dedc79

The New York Times’ baseball blog has an interview with Ron Blomberg, Major League Baseball’s first designated hitter.  I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised to read that he still favors retaining the D.H. spot but I was disappointed: Q. Do … Continue reading →

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Lies from the New York Times

Posted on April 1, 2013 by dedc79

Ok, ok, it may not rise to the level/consequence of Judith Miller’s pre-Iraq War reporting, but this headline from the New York Times is patently false: New York baseball fans cannot possibly be optimistic about the Mets or the Yankees this season.

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Things Can ALWAYS Get Worse

Posted on March 29, 2013 by dedc79

For Mets fans, anyway.  I didn’t exactly have high hopes for this season to begin with.  Now this: Johan Santana’s left shoulder has failed him again. Now he must decide if he  has the stomach for another grueling comeback. After … Continue reading →

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Second Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Posted on October 15, 2012 by dedc79

Given that there’s unlikely to be an NHL playoffs this year, I got to thinking about other good times in the sports year.  We’re clearly in the midst of one of them — the NL and AL championship series are … Continue reading →

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Beginnings XI

Posted on October 10, 2012 by dedc79

Don Delillo’s Underworld entertains the proposition that Bobby Thompson’s game winning home run off of Ralph Branca to win the 1951 pennant really was a “shot heard round the world.”   The sixty page opening takes the reader through the day … Continue reading →

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I Add Up To A Republican Senate And Republican House. I’m Entitled To THE Math.

Posted on September 21, 2012 by reflectionephemeral

Nate Silver, via Andrew Sullivan, thinks things are going well for Obama: Some think, against expectations until very recently, that the Dems could retain the Senate  and take the House. I guess I’m just a fatalist, but I see those … Continue reading →

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Mistaken Mistakes

Posted on August 16, 2012 by dedc79

Nobody seems to know how to make a proper public apology. Here’s journalist Fareed Zakaria’s apology, in which he acknowledges that he took material from a New Yorker article without attribution to write one of his own columns: Media reporters … Continue reading →

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Year of the Pitcher

Posted on June 14, 2012 by dedc79

The 2012 baseball season isn’t even half over and it’s already had five no hitters and a two perfect games.  Not just any perfect game either, a fourteen strike out perfect game.   Meanwhile, the Mets’ 37 year old knuckleball pitcher, R.A. … Continue reading →

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With Governments Printing Money Like Crazy, Only Gold Coins Can Secure Your Future

Posted on June 1, 2012 by reflectionephemeral

I’ve been avoiding saying much lately about the failure of right-wing antigovernment former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling’s toy company despite tens of millions of government dollars. It was one thing to laugh about his hypocrisy, but since then, 400 employees … Continue reading →

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Diamond Welfare Queens

Posted on May 17, 2012 by reflectionephemeral

Legendary MLB pitcher and noted Republican commentator Curt Schilling, like a strapping young buck buying T-bone steaks with his food stamps, is turning to the government to save himself: Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling asked Rhode Island officials for … Continue reading →

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In Which My Estimation Of Davey Johnson’s Managerial Skill Declines A Notch

Posted on May 16, 2012 by reflectionephemeral

The guy’s been successful in Baltimore, with the Mets, and in Cincinnati. This year the Nationals are surprising the league. Johnson’s obviously very good at what he does. But you’d think he could say, “he was dealing with some stuff” or … Continue reading →

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SNAFU

Posted on May 14, 2012 by dedc79

Judge Walton caught a bit of a break after a monumental screw-up in the Clemens trial:  Before the prosecution’s star witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, Brian McNamee, took the stand Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton sidestepped … Continue reading →

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Nationals Stupidity

Posted on February 10, 2012 by dedc79

Washington, DC is a city full of people from other cities.  The city is in constant flux as administrations come and go and people move in and out of the public/private sector.  The fluidity of DC’s population is especially noticeable … Continue reading →

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Choosing One’s Own Memory Above That Of The Cameras

Posted on January 31, 2012 by reflectionephemeral

nickgb is bummed about all the Giants-Patriots stuff going up on the blog, so it’s obviously time to talk about Carlton Fisk’s home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, and how he’s preserved his memory of it:

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We’d Rather You Didn’t

Posted on December 28, 2011 by dedc79

These are bleak times for Mets fans. The team’s owner was caught up in the Madoff scandal and is desperate for cash.  The team’s best and most exciting player left for a division rival, and another star player left after his best … Continue reading →

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Welcome, Mr. Cherington

Posted on October 25, 2011 by reflectionephemeral

I don’t even really know whether this amounts to good news for Sox fans: Newly-appointed Boston general manager Ben Cherington announced during his introductory press conference on Tuesday that starting pitcher John Lackey will undergo Tommy John surgery and will miss the … Continue reading →

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Things I Won’t Miss If They Disappear

Posted on October 5, 2011 by dedc79

The NBA: The NBA has canceled the remainder of the preseason and will wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if there is no labor agreement by Monday. Commissioner David Stern and deputy commissioner Adam Silver made … Continue reading →

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Don’t They Know It’s The End Of The World

Posted on October 3, 2011 by reflectionephemeral

Apparently some teams are still out there playing baseball, for some reason. Here are a couple charts from back when it still mattered this season. Here are the Red Sox’ chances of making the playoffs, game by game: Here are … Continue reading →

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