Entries Tagged as 'writers'

2009 IBA awards

November 11th, 2009 · No Comments

The results of the voting for the annual Internet Baseball Awards are in. This is essentially a survey of Sabermetric nation. Yes, BPR is a voter.
Random observations:
The MVPs are so obvious - Joe Mauer got 1,153 of 1,290 possible first-place votes, Albert Pujols 1,045 of 1,105 - that the BBWAA can’t screw them up in the […]

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Tags: writers · sabermetrics · Phillies · baseball

fun facts with JC

October 9th, 2009 · No Comments

I wrote this a couple weeks ago and, for some reason, didn’t post it…
If you scroll down a bit and look to your right, you’ll find a link to “The best newspaper columnist in America.” He’s Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Examiner, and I’m not sure he quite deserves that billing any longer […]

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Tags: weirdness · writers

Penn State coverage, prediction

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Wanted to break down what we’re doing with Penn State this year. In the Sunday News game days, I’ll have a game story, column, highs and lows (a quasi-notebook) and grades.
In the daily paper: A post mortem Monday, something off Joe’s weekly press conference Wednesday, and a player-profile/game preview Friday.
I’ll also put excerpts (at least) […]

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Tags: writers · The Low Post · Joe Pa · college football · Penn State

Noonan on Palin

July 18th, 2009 · No Comments

I was sure I had already posted this, but apparently not…
It’s the definitive takedown of Sarah Palin made all the more so because it’s by a conservative former Reagan staffer, and because it appeared in the Wall Street Journal. 
It’s all good, but here’s a money passage:
” ‘[It’s said that] The elites hate her.” The elites made her. […]

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Tags: writers · politics

yes, more Penn State stuff…

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Penn State is apparently going to be sanctioned by the Rose Bowl for failing to meet contracual agreements regarding media obligations.
From a statement issued by the bowl:
There were two non-compliance matters.  One involved the failure to conduct a pre-game interview with the Game Broadcaster, as required by contract.  The other involved the failure to open […]

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Tags: Dubya · writers · Grandaddy of em all · Rose Bowl · Joe Pa · sportswriting · Penn State · media · dumbness · college football · football

FJM is no more

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: writers · sportswriting · dumbness · media · baseball

David Foster Wallace RIP

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I somehow missed this, which happened late Friday, until today (Monday). “David Foster Wallace, writer of dark, manic irony, has committed suicide…” Reading that made air rush from my gut. It was as if I’d lost someone from my own family, which sounds ridiculous and celebrity-obsessed, like those simps who make a annual vacation of going […]

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Tags: academia · writers