Billy Paultz Reconsidered

We are live from Harrisburg International Airport, where the atmosphere is electric…..
The trap game concern is a real one. A quarterback named Kafka (not Franz, but still) has to give one pause. Kafka runs a pretty good passing game that should test Penn State’s mostly untested secondary.
But I’m not bullish on Northwestern’s intangibles, either. The Wildcats […]

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Both the Phillies and the Yankees have had AAA franchises in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre. Here’s a pretty nice look at the Series from, to that area, a local angle.
And speaking of local angles….
Chase Utley has won over at least one New York scribe.
Tim McCarver made a good point that I missed in last night’s live blog: You […]

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We are live from Chez Gross…
7:45 p.m.- Phils starters being introduced. I know TV flattens sound, but I thought the boos for Jimmy “Shut him up” Rollins were fairly subdued. Don’t hear any evidence that there’s a Philly presence in the crowd, though. Could do without the music….
7:50- Over on Comcast, Sixers are being lit up […]

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One could make an argument that, by formal analysis, the Yankees have the better offense, defense, starting pitching and bullpen.
Problem:  I just went through the last 30 World Series at length. There were 22 in which, by my reckoning, a superior team could be identified. In those 22, the better team went 10-12. (The other eight I considered, […]

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of this World Series matchup:
1. Secondary-market tickets are going for about $50 percent more in Philly than in New York. With the I-95 corridor proximity of the teams, ticket brokers are expecting a bigger Philly presence at the games in Yankee Stadium than the other way around.
“We’ll be watching prices in Philadelphia and New York […]

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We are live from the Big House, which is being refurbished and already looks cooler than it used to. They’re still working on a huge luxury box section which sits on top of everything directly across the field from the press box- very similar to the Beav.
It’s cold here, and intermittently windy and rainy. And, […]

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My all time favorite newspaper headline appeared in the long-gone Philadelphia Journal, a sports-oriented tabloid that could best be described as a cross between the Philly Daily News and one of the colorful, scandalous London Fleet Street papers.
The story was on an economist from the University of Pennsylvania winning the Nobel Prize. It appeared during […]

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I’m not ready yet to really break down the World Series (especially since we don’t know who’s going to be in it), but I do want to say it’s nice to see the national media - even the stat-geek media to which I pledge allegiance - start to acknowledge what the Phils have already done.
In […]

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Coming at you live from the Philly airport, where I’m waiting to fly to Detroit for the Nits and Wolverines, and where there has just been a Mario Andretti sighting. No kidding.
Among travelers sitting at the gate, there’s exactly the same amount of Penn State attire and Michigan attire. For what it’s worth.
This could be […]

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to bear in mind next time you hear whining about the liberal media, courtesy of Slate’s Timothy Noah.

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