Billy Paultz Reconsidered

… that halfway through this sporting summer, Pac Man Jones would look, comparatively, like Desmond Tutu?
… that the commissioner having the relatively stress- free summer would be the guy who runs the NHL?
Observations:
Every time you watch a game people bet on, there’s a chance the betting is impacting the integrity of the outcome. A very […]

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I’ll unload on Michael Vick in the paper Sunday. For now, some random observations and links…
The less said about the Phillies 10,000th loss the better, so just a couple of things: The current Phils who’ve been there the longest, Jimmy Rollins and Pat Burrell, are 52 games over .500 in red pinstripes. The team with the […]

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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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As I’m sure is obvious, I’m still trying to get a feel for what I want this blog to be.
I’d like to write about politics once in a while, but this is absolutely, positively not going to be one more place on the Internet where the left (whatever that is) and the right (whatever that is) stick their tongues […]

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ESPN could have had the Phillies vs. Justin Verlander (in his first start after a no-hitter) Sunday, but chose Mets-Yankees. Again.
Which brings us to a chicken/egg argument. The Mets, Yankees and Red Sox are the only baseball teams with national cache. Is the endless media hype of those teams a reflection of that or the […]

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Blah, blah Sopranos blah, blah…  Tony, yadda, yadda, yadda…. what’s with the Journey? blah, blah… closure  blah, blah, blah…. freakin onion rings, yadda, yadda, yadda… what the….  blah, blah…wait…. THAT WAS IT?! I thought my cable went out….. blah, blah, blah…. can’t wait for the movie….
Can we maybe get on with our lives now?

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This piece in Deadspin talks about Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock’s strange affinity for Jeff George, only partially explained by the fact that George and Whitlock were high school teammates.
The theory is that George is, essentially, Whitlock’s “binkie,” his safety blanket, an athlete that he “champions and claims is better than anyone else is […]

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I’ve been wanting to try one of these diaries, and with game one of the NBA Finals and the second half of the Phillies and Mets running simultaneously, this seems like the right time. We’re fresh from the vast nearby Sheetz convenience complex with an armload of caffeine and, well, here we go.
9:03 p.m. – […]

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This blog is still in its nascent stages, and I don’t know how political, if at all, the content is going to be, but I do want to talk a bit about the link (down and to your right, on most browsers) to “the best newspaper columnist in America.”
He is Jon Carroll of the San […]

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They predicted the Wall Street Journal would go downhill once Rupert Murdoch buys it. Could it be happening already? Go here and scroll down a little. 

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