Billy Paultz Reconsidered

New York magazine makes the very good point here that if not for Eli Manning, Boston would now hold the world titles in baseball, football and basketball and be the most obnoxious place on earth.

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We’re coming at you live from the palatial living room of Chez Gross, where we’ll be one of only 67,428 bloggers doing an NBA draft lottery.
The ESPN crew is Stu Scott anchoring, with Jay Bilas, Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson doing analysis from the desk. Stephen A. has his own little talk-show set off […]

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The Phillies are a struggling mess right now, so of course we’re hearing the predictable nonsense about clutch or “situational” hitting. They’re not hitting, period. In the last seven days, during which the Phils have lost six times, they’re hitting .160, and are last in the NL in battiing average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and, […]

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from vacation, during which I spent considerable time driving through the Middle Atlantic region, checking out gas prices (which ranged from $3.95 to $4.21 based on location, retailer and, at times, no logic I could determine) and thinking about the gas mess. The public debate on the issue seems to be boiling down to whether […]

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I have this blog… maybe you heard something about it, despite the fact that it’s been deeper in disappearance mode than Lamar Odom.
Ba-zing.
Anyway, some thoughts on what’s been going on in my absence. Let’s see, uh, we’ve been to the moon….
Seriously, the Lakers have been so bad through four Finals games that it not only […]

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This column appeared in last Sunday’s paper and, in a slightly different form, in 1999. It was run again by request, and I’m sticking it here in the ongoing effort to make the blog more archival.
Or something.
There were balls and gloves and helmets and Nikes. Then there was the tux and gown, then […]

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Just happened upon this while aimlessly surfing, which reminded me of college, in Western Pennsylvania, a stronghold of the absurd and offensive practice of calling soda “pop.”
First, problems with the data the map represents:
1. It’s based on 120,000-some responses in a nation of 300-plus million.
2. It’s by county but not population; the “pro-soda” (read: sane) […]

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