Billy Paultz Reconsidered

This will be seen, nationally, as more a Mets’ collapse than a Phillies’ triumph. That’s natural. Is 1964 remembered more for the Phillies losing or the Cardinals winning?
OK, but a couple of points:
1. If the Phillies’ had been reasonably healthy - not injury-free, just around the big-league average - they were clearly at least a […]

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Minneapolis is the second-coolest city in the Big Ten (to Chicago, which might be the coolest city in America), so I was disappointed when the Golden Gophers dropped off Penn State’s schedule this year and next.
Maybe I shouldn’t have been. I’ve driven over the bridge that collapsed horrifically there a few weeks back, and I’ve […]

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So I’m at the Clip Joint covering the Barnstormers tonight (they’re down 1-0 in the top of the fourth; the game has been utterly pitching dominated except for a Clip Joint cheapie homer to right), and all these mascots are running around the park.
It turns out that one of the Cylos (one of the humans who performs as the BSers […]

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back in the news (hooray!).
He’s done an interview with a web site called MN1.com that included phone calls from viewers.
Here’s my favorite:
Caller: “Remember when you played for the 49ers?”
Simpson: “Yeah.”
Caller: “Yeah, did you kill Bill Walsh?”

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Courtesy of Sunday News intrepid Internet journalist Casey Kreider, here’s the full indictment.
Also, here’s a theory on what’s exactly wrong with this guy: He’s simply a simp.

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from computer woes with a fresh blogging spasm:
You’ve by now no doubt heard the doom-and-gloom about dwindling TV ratings for the all-star game. Here’s a different look at the same data- The all-star game will be, as it always is, the most-watched TV show of the summer. Despite Fox’s hideous coverage, it was the highest-rated […]

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Let’s see… there’s this guy who’s hitting .304, slugging .603 (second in the league) with a .516 on-base percentage (1st in the league by 100 points) with a 1.119 OPS (first in the league).
Think that guy belongs in the all-star game? Think there should even be a serious debate about it?
I mean, duh. 
But there is a […]

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Let me see if I’ve got this straight:
The Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano hits three home runs in three at bats against the Braves.
The next day, as soon as Soriano digs in at the plate, the Braves throw at his head. No reaction from the umpires. No penalty. No repercussions.
The day after that the Cubs throw at […]

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 I had promised in this blog’s initial post to say something about “American Idol,” and since this season’s edition ended last night, now seems like the time…
The basic problem is that “Idol” reduces music to nothing but a fame-creation substance, and a fame-creation substance is the worst thing music can be.
For a half-century in America, […]

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We should all give Michael Vick a break and lighten up about dog fighting, according to Clinton Portis. They’re his dogs, after all. He owns them.

         The mind boggles….

 With the Phillies in Florida tonight, check out Miguel Cabrera. He looks like the teenage Monica from “Friends.” If the camera adds 10 pounds, exactly how many […]

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