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(Also bizarre is the idea that the Yankees gave up on Giambi playing 1B, he played 25 games in September, and all but four of them came at 1B.)
Oh you and your facts! Knock it off. (Yeah, Giambi has good hands and he's excellent at picking throws off the dirt. It's something, at least.)
Nope. Is this in reference to my post about Will Carroll?
I'm not in publishing, but I had a roommate who was an editor at a very, very large publishing company. I have a background in writing and we talked a lot about books. At one point he was hard up for good book ideas--it's actually harder to find books that editors think the public will buy than you might think--and I floated the idea of a book about the burgeoning steroids controversy, particularly in regards to baseball. He then asked me if I had any recommendations on who to commission for the book and I recommended Carroll. I'd been reading B-Pro for about 6 months at that time and Carroll had an almost daily column about the controversy. My roommate liked the idea and wanted to run with it, but it turned out Carroll had already signed with another publishing house for a book about steroids. Carroll isn't perfect, obviously (I don't actually read him anymore, though I still like B-Pro), but I do admire his energy and that he's created a niche for himself. He's like the Mel Kiper of baseball. Actually, he's exactly the Mel Kiper of baseball except I have no idea what he looks like. I hope he has similar hair to Mel.
He would, if only Mel lost one of those "Okay, the loser has to shave his head" kind of bets.
The televangilist cut? You'll be disappointed. IIRC, Kiper worked for the Colts at one point, but (assuming I got the origin story right) he got his start as a college kid in his mom's basement.
I'd be interested in what baseball books are in demand from these houses. It seems like historical New York-centric ones are. Witness Josh Prager and Jonathan Eig.
I've only met him once, but my initial impression was that he looks roughly like an albino bowling ball.
Who the hell is Willie Garson?
I'd be interested in what baseball books are in demand from these houses. It seems like historical New York-centric ones are. Witness Josh Prager and Jonathan Eig.
I have no idea. My wild-assed guess would be topical/scandal books or boomer nostalgia written in purple prose about how life was better back then and baseball was a reflection of our lost purity... I wish someone would commission me to write a book about Troy Neel.
You guys are destroying my fantasy life.
I've seen the show, but I never paid much attention to it. I know the Northern Exposure guy was on it and I like him ok. The women horrified me.
It's one of my three most hated shows in the history of TV. The other two are "Dawsons Creek" and "Party of Five". "Gossip Girl" is quickly moving up the charts, however, as I continually have to stifle the urge to throw the remote through the TV every time I pass by it while channel surfing.
Thanks for making me feel like even less of a ladies man. I have seen it a few times, but I don't recall any Will Carroll looking character in it.
(Which, it appears, also featured Willie Garson. Small world.)
here's a pic
Willie Garson
Will Carroll
It's one of those shows where I just find every character to be unpleasant. Basically, since I can't find anyone on the show who even appears to be a slightly sympathetic character, it just irritates the hell out of me - I'm just not good at dealing with "empty and vapid" people in any medium. It's one of the many reasons that I can't stand "Sex and the City" either.
That was possibly the most baffling and grating show I have ever seen. I watched the first 6 episodes before I gave up. I kept thinking that maybe they were doing something so ambitious, I just wasn't getting it and so I gave them a lot of rope. The problem was every single character annoyed the hell out of me and I just had to give it up. The faux Elizabethan claptrap coming from the three wisemen or whatever they were supposed to be pushed me close to a fury.
In happier news, The Life and Times of Tim is awesome and I highly recommend it.
And yet you spend time here!
His athleticism certainly is dismal, but he never stopped trying. I personally watched him take a hundred ground balls a day in ST, working on turning the 3-6-3.
Teixeira, by contrast, finished 2008 with a UZR of 11.7 – tops among major league first basemen. This metric is a growing favorite in the sabermetric community...
Yes, and most in the sabermetric community understand the limitations of looking at a single season's worth of data. Isn't 2008 is the first time that Teixeira has led in UZR, and hasn't most of the rest of his career been pretty averagish?
Hey, when it comes to avoiding "empty and vapid", this place beats the hell out of most of the sites on the web.
Fair enough on Gossip Girl, it's certainly not for everyone. Although I would argue that muted, one can at least appreciate the aesthetics.
That's getting brought up loudly next time we're in a bar.
"Gossip Girl" is awesome. Solid first season, and really hitting its stride in the second season. Please refrain from trashing it.
Oh man, you too?
I actually sat through every episode even though I realized halfway through the season that the series was an incoherent miasma of half-baked ideas. They canned "Deadwood" so David Milch could work on this crap?
Everyone associated with that show has earned my eternal enmity - including Zippy the Parakeet.
I can believe you would wonder about that. With Troy Neel, I'd rather do a quasi bio/novel so I could take some liberties with the material. Also, I'd love to write a book about the first two black players to play in Japan--Johnny Britton and Jimmy Newberry. That's got a lot to offer. Black baseball stars who suddenly found themselves "owned" by white baseball teams and were then shuttled off to post-war Japan. That would be a fun book to write but I know very little about Japan so it intimidates the hell out of me.
Ha! To paraphrase GG herself, You Know You Love It.
Speaking of bars, next week work for you?
That show is freaking amazing!
Speaking of bars, next week work for you?
Why yes, yes it does. Name the day.
Tim: You have to acknowledge the irony that I've been mugged twice today and now I'm the one being arrested.
Cop: For me to ACKNOWLEDGE the IRONY I would have to learn two new words today. Not going to happen.
Sure does.
In the 60's Bill Veeck wrote that they had no reserve clause. That sounds like one of those books that MacFarland would publish but would sell only a limited amount of copies.
Is there actual evidence that a good fielding first baseman makes the rest of the infield better? This question came up last spring in my strat league and we never did come to a conclusion. (Not saying that many vehement opinions were not voiced.)
In general, no they don't. However, I will. I am such a slick-fielder, a scooper non-pareil, that I guarantee to reduce your infield's throwing errors by 50%.*
And this miracle cure will only cost you $1.5 million (guaranteed!). C'mon people, that's Carl Pavano money and I'm not even gonna ask for incentives clauses. Shoot, I'll probably even settle for $1.5 million NZ per year if it's a multi-year contract.
And that's not all! Sign me before midnight Friday and you will receive, at no extra charge (OK, $400,000), Andruw Jones!
*guarantee not valid in any of the 50 states or Canada.
I seem to remember a BP article (possibly not actually BP) discussing how significantly infield errors rates dropped whenever John Olerud joined a team, and spiked whenever he left a team. Given that a big chunk of IF errors are on throws, a good scooping 1B, or one with a long reach, would create the illusion of improved defense among the other members of the infield.
If by "girly-man points" you mean "taunted mercilessly", then the answer is "yes".
I watch that with my girl and I enjoy it when they show them working. I'm also pretty good at picking the winners. I don't care much for the "drama" they try to create on these reality shows. I'm more interested in the process of creation and the skill involved.
I feel the same way and that's probably why I like that show and have such a lack of interest in a lot of similar shows. Although they do try to create/focus on drama in Runway it just isn't there nearly to the extent in other reality shows/competitions. It makes for fewer annoying stretches in the show.
Great!
A few times per season on Runway they'll have a shot of one of the models in a thong as she's changing, or her breasts barely covered (or blurred) which are clearly put in there for the sake of the straight guys watching the show.
Giambi may have been aware of his throwing weakness and willing to work on improving it, but nothing seemed to work for him. Forget about the 3-6-3, just getting the lead runner at 2nd was next to impossible for him. The throw went into left field or was so slow that the runner beat the ball to the bag. As time went on, Giambi made fewer attempts and last season it seemed that he rarely tried any throw other than the underhand lob to the pitcher covering 1st.
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