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11/15/08 - Curiouser and Curiouser
2008-11-15 21:25:00 A summary of the week's local sports activity and the strangeness of it all.
11/7/08 - Of Mets Follies and Football Too!
2008-11-07 19:44:00 You're probably asking yourself how anybody could be writing about baseball when there are so many exciting things happening in football, and even basketball. I'm wondering myself actually. My only excuse is that I'm worried bigtime that Mets GM Omar Minaya will make another "brilliant" move, one on the order of his Moises Alou or Luis Castillo ploys. A plea to not trade Carlos Beltran. More About: Football
11/4/08 - You Want Crazy?
2008-11-04 19:33:00 Life is crazy. It's always been crazy and seldom is it really fair. It's crazy that one of the best Knicks guards should occupy the bench when lesser players run around not doing very much. How about the Browns benching their quarterback Derek Anderson for 2nd-year man Brady Quinn? Of course, all this craziness pales in comparison to other more important considerations in our lives. Take the war in Iraq, for example. More About: Crazy
10/31/08-The Keystone Difference
2008-10-31 08:08:00 Second base is called the keystone for good reason. Chase Utley drove home that point. It was the keystone difference in this 2008 World Series. More About: Difference , Keystone
10/22/08 - Phillies (and Determination) in Seven
2008-10-22 20:28:00 The World Series goes on unsullied, despite all the rest of the woes surrounding our country. An analysis of why the Phillies will take this 2008 version.
10/2/08 - America Has Been Sold
2008-10-02 07:46:00 America has been sold to the corporations. Bush, Pelosi and the U.S. Senate, they do not represent the people of the U.S. They represent the corporations. Can I write about sports under these circumstances? Shouldn't we start being more vigilant? More About: America , Sold
9/25/08 - A Time For Heroes
2008-09-25 08:39:00 The Mets won't win ANYTHING this year. The heroes are all in Milwaukee. More About: Heroes , Time
9/22/08 - The Harder They Fall, or Not
2008-09-22 08:34:00 It can go wrong sometimes. The big bully on the block picks on the wrong guy, on the wrong day. And gets his head handed to him. The bully gets surprised and then disheartened. The underdog feeds on success. One thing works, then another. Everybody plays harder. The vision of success is realized. So it was for the Patriots yesterday as they were pounded to the tune of 38-13 by the Miami Dolphins at their home in Foxboro. More About: Fall
9/16/08 - From Nine to Five
2008-09-16 08:32:00 It was an old-fashioned shootout. Just as you'd want on Monday Night Football, there was Number 9, young Tony Romo firing bullets to the infamous T.O. But there was Number 5 Donovan McNabb on the other side, looking like the quarterback of yesteryear, finding his new favorite target, one DeSean Jackson.
9/8/08 - Just Too Much
2008-09-08 10:20:00 It was just too much, way too much to absorb...a full schedule of football games, a Mets doubleheader against the hated Phillies, Brett Favre vs. Chad Pennington. Who could even think about Serena winning another U.S. Open?
9/3/08 - Arms and Feet....and Inches
2008-09-03 09:20:00 The Mets won another close one last night, and it was all about arms, relievers arms, Beltran's arm, Chavez's arm and Wright's arm. But it was also about some feet the Brewers didn't use and some inches that decided the Mets fate. More About: Feet , Arms
9/01/08 - Ten Four... Joba... Over?
2008-09-01 10:36:00 Looking at the remaining schedules of the Yanks and Red Sox and predicting how the Yankees could still quite feasibly come back. The Yanks will have Joba back and Matsui too while the Red Sox have a struggling Papi and no Manny.
8/29/08 - Big Men - Big Times
2008-08-29 23:04:00 Jason Giambi and Carlos Delgado are two big men coming through at the best possible time. More About: Times
8/27/08 - Great Game - Bad Result
2008-08-27 09:28:00 The Mets-Phillies game last night was great but with a decidedly bad result and one gets the feeling that the Phillies are the better team. But baseball is a weird game after all... More About: Great , Game , Result
082208-So Low and Solo - Kudos to Good Coaches
2008-08-23 03:18:00 Coaches and managers mean so much in sports. And not just for their tactical moves either. It?s way more than that. Every player has to believe in the manager?s concern for the outcome, his ability to make it so, and for his genuine humanity. So kudos this evening for the 2008 U.S. soccer coach, who had the foresight to convince his team that Hope Solo should be one of them. His name is Pia Sundhage. Don?t ask me to pronounce it. And the same for Jerry Manuel, who makes all the right moves, or most of them anyway. More About: Kudos , Good , Coaches
8/20/08 - One More Chance
2008-08-20 10:29:00 The Olympians get one chance while the Mets relievers seem to get so many. Featuring Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, and Scot Schoeneweis More About: Chance
8/18/08 Olympic Musings
2008-08-18 23:15:00 Commentary on the Jamaicans domination of the 100-meter dash, the class shown by the gymnasts, the difficulty in following many of the events and my admiration for the deserving only. More About: Olympic , Musings
8/16/08 Just The Right Touch
2008-08-17 16:36:00 With a relief staff in shambles and through injuries and callups from the minor leagues, through it all, Jerry Manuel has shown just the right touch. More About: Touch
8/13/08 - No Relief In Sight
2008-08-13 12:36:00 With relief pitching as bad as that of the Mets, it's time to start thinking outside the box because there is no "relief" in sight. More About: Relief , Sight
8/11/08 - It's The Journey - Really!
2008-08-11 22:54:00 Olympics coverage is focused on results and medal counts but it should focus a lot more on the stories behind athletes such as Melanie Roach, who, at 33 years of age, took 6th place in the women's 58 kg division. More About: Journey , The Journey
8/8/8 - Goats to Heroes
2008-08-08 11:52:00 It was beginning to look like the same old script for the Mets yesterday afternoon. Mets manager Jerry Manuel had to go to the bullpen. Surely the Mets would lose another. But it was not to be on this day. Not this day. On this day, the Mets would FIGHT. More About: Heroes , Goats
8/6/08 - Dog Days All Around
2008-08-06 09:56:00 Lamenting the shape of the Mets, Yankees, Giants and Jets, PSL's, the Olympics, the economy, just about everything. Yes, these surely are dog days. More About: Days
8/4/08 - Serious Likeability
2008-08-04 12:08:00 How can I be a Yankee-hater with the team they have now? What?s not to like? Nady adds zing to their lineup, in just the right spot. Pudge looks like a new man. I always liked the Giambino and Damon. And Melky, he can grow on you too. Cano?s been a hit machine. I haven?t liked a Yankees team this much since the one I found impossible to hate, the one with Tino at first, and O?Neil in the outfield, and that clutch third-baseman Scott Brosius
8/1/08 - A Tribute to Manny
2008-08-01 10:48:00 The real story yesterday was Manny Ramirez going to the Dodgers. Churchill said it best, ?never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.? For Boston, the few have lost a key man. More About: Tribute
7/30/08 - A Call to Arms
2008-07-30 19:07:00 Just about 24 hours to the trade deadline now, and although things seem set, at least as far as any big moves in Major League Baseball, there still could be a few surprises. More About: Arms , Call
7/28/08 - Manny Happy Returns
2008-07-28 19:46:00 The MLB trading deadline is Thursday and Manny Ramirez could find himself playing for another team before Friday. More About: Happy
7/25/08 - Thankfully Wrong..
2008-07-25 21:37:00 I was wrong about the Mets. It didn't matter that they made all those mistakes in the first game of the Phillies Series. More About: Wrong
7/23/08 - Overthinking the Easy Ones
2008-07-23 16:57:00 How many times have we seen it before, with other teams, with other middle-relief guys who try on the closer's hat? They don't have a prayer. So it was with the Mets last night as they wasted a fine performance by Johan Santana and a 3-run lead to lose the opener of their three-game set with the Phils, 8-6. More About: Easy
7/21/08 - Big Series at Shea
2008-07-22 01:01:00 Big Series at Shea ! When was the last time we felt that? I mean, actually feeling GOOD about it?
7/18/08 - The Chemistry Set
More articles from this author:2008-07-18 19:14:00 The Mets have been great and the chemistry is delicate. More About: Chemistry 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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