Billy Paultz Reconsidered

As the lack of consistent activity on Billy Paultz Revisited may suggest, maintaining a blog can be a pain in the ass. Especially if you have a life, and double-especially if you work, and triple-especially if the work is primarily writing of a non-blog variety.
Anyway, the web lost a wondrous presence to such realities last week when Fire Joe Morgan ceased […]

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Yesssss. Oh yeah. Yes-in-deedy.
You can’t stop Geoff Jenkins, you can only hope to contain him. Did somebody just say Pedro Feliz-Navidad? I’d like to think so.
I’m going to write a lot about the Phils for Sunday’s paper, so no analysis right now. Just hope nobody gets hurt tonight, and hope they don’t tear up the […]

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Caught Fox World Series duo Joe Buck and Tim McCarver on “Pardon the Interruption,” tonight. Kornheiser/Wilbon asked them if they thought the way Tuesday night played out was a disadvantage to the Phillies.
They scoffed, McCarver asserting some nonsense about how, if anything, it disadvantaged the Rays, since scoring that run in the sixth involved B.J. Upton […]

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You know who I think is a really central figure? Charlie Manuel.
Yes, managers are overrated, and Xs and Os are the most overrated part of managing. But that’s in general, over the long haul, and a best-of-seven series ain’t the long haul.
Will Charlie use Cole Hamels three times, meaning probably in game four on three […]

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“I have no idea who’ll win this World Series. But for once, let’s not be mealymouthed. We all know who should win it.”
That was Tom Boswell of The Washington Post, in a preview of the 1983, Phils-Orioles World Series. Boswell was right- the Os were the better team, and in that case the better team […]

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Hi. My name is Mike. I’m a sportswriter. Remember me?
I’ve been deep undercover the last couple weeks doing preseason football stuff (Penn State holding its media day the same day as Lancaster-Lebanon League media day for the first time ever really screwed me, man). But the school year begins tomorrow, and soon, praise the Lord, there’ll […]

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August…. the storylines of the baseball season are already old enough to be tiresome, but we’re still a ways from anything decisive. There’s so much failure in baseball that when it isn’t quite leading to anything, it’s tough to take. And everybody knows football is coming. This is a tough time of year to follow baseball […]

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One interesting thing about the Penn State investigation on “Outside the Lines,” was the contrast between what Joe said and what University president Graham Spanier said.
Confronted with the raw numbers - 46 players arrested since 2002, 27 of them found guilty of something - Paterno went into knee-jerk defensive mode, using the word “witchhunt,” several […]

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I wrote this last night during the Barnstormers’ game and then got occupied writing alternate ledes to that 10-9, six-error, 217-minute mess of a game. Random observations while getting ready for the Barnstormers game with Newark at the Clip…
ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” is reportedly planning a look at some of the off-field issues with Penn […]

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No, I didn’t stay up to the end, and yes, I’m very glad I didn’t commit to full-blown live blogging….
Couple reactions:
After Chase Utley had warm words for the fans Monday, why wasn’t be booed when introduced Tuesday? He came out right before a Red Sox (Red Sock?), Dustin Pedroia, but you can boo two consecutive […]

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