Some things that have annoyed/amused/intrigued me lately:
*Re: The Phillies nice win over the Mets Friday. Nobody I heard mentioned that Johan Santana - who averages 200 innings a year and over 100 pitches a game - left a 2-2 game after eight innings having thrown 95 pitches, with a lefthander, Ryan Howard, leading off the ninth. The night […]
Entries Tagged as 'Tiger'
Some people…
July 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Tiger · Barnstormers · golf · dumbness · Phillies · baseball
Baron, Nellie, Tiger, etc.
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
I have never seen what others seem to in Don Nelson, the longtime NBA coach regarded by many basketball people as an eccentric near-genius. When Nelson took over the Golden State Warriors last season and oversaw a modest turnaround and then an impressive defeat of Dallas in the first round of the playoffs, I thought […]
Tags: broadcasting · Tiger · TV · media · NBA · basketball
Masters post mortem
April 14th, 2008 · No Comments
When Tiger won his historic first Masters, by 12 shots, in 1997, Augusta National was a 6,800-ish yard course with no rough.
It was the ultimate strategic (as opposed to penal) design - you could hit tee shots six different places on many holes and give yourself six different approaches to playing the hole. There was […]
