Links of the Week: Myers’ brazen return

July 25, 2006

When you tip a waitress, you’re not forever known as The Waitress Tipper. When you ride the bus, people don’t deride you as The Bus Rider. So why should Randy Myers suffer a scarlet letter just because he got caught once punching a woman half his size? Trust your friendly neighborhood sportswriter (and GM) to sympathize.

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Link(s) of the Week: Get well Pete…

June 28, 2006

Peter Gammons suffered a cerebral aneurysm on Tuesday. Here’s the bad, the good, and the slam at a peer.

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Link(s) of the Week: Spilling the (Coffee) Beans

June 8, 2006

Grimsley tried to lam, but they cheesed him, and now he’s fingering…half of MLB. We have an exclusive artist’s rendering of the primary suspect.

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Link(s) of the Week: Pathetic figure

May 17, 2006

In which a basically anonymous sportswriter demonstrates that no, he has not read “Tuesdays With Morrie.”

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Link(s) of the week: YouTube comes through

May 12, 2006

I’m surprised it took this long to post a video of Rick Sutcliffe’s legally-impaired visit to the Padres’ broadcast booth, but here it is. The oddest part is, he doesn’t sound nearly as insane as he was portrayed in the media. (Maybe that’s a statement about some of the people I attend games with.) Kinda […]

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Bonus Lo’W: @*$! Umps

May 5, 2006

Baseball math: Beer-league umps + professional players + radio broadcaster already frustrated by team’s futility + dizzy bat race = good listening.

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How to judge prospects using actual performance instead of those "tools" things, by David Cameron

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How to See a Ballgame -- Be admired by friends and wanted by the opposite sex, by Michael Cox.
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Boy's World, the first woman to play major-league baseball stars in the best online serial ever, by Derek Zumsteg.

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