Since the
Moneyball script was leaked this summer, some folks took it upon themselves to
shoot a scene, just to see how it would come out. Execution isn't flawless, but it is a cool visualization of what the movie will/would be like. I imagine tighter cuts and dialogue delivered a little snappier, but we can work with this.
Via
Baseball Musings.
I should say up front that I'm a huge fan of Timmy so maybe I'm oversensitive, but
isn't this kind of a weird thing to say?
In the same way that a child's bedroom isn't the same without a favorite old teddy bear or a beloved, threadbare old blanket, Fenway Park isn't the same without Tim Wakefield.
Threadbare?
Or, Bullying the Ballot Box.
Red Sox Nation's power as one of the more active constituencies when it comes to MLB All Star balloting is well known. With that power comes great responsibility. Such as the responsibility to vote
AAA player Lastings Milledge into the All Star Game. It makes sense, if the National League team is weaker, the AL is more likely to win and thus take home field advantage in the World Series. Also this:
...At the very least we'd be teaching MLB a valuable lesson on how to take a person's name off the digital ballot if they're not even wearing a major league uniform at the time. Why is Milledge even eligible?
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Baseball Musings.
Today's Sunday Globe Magazine has a
5,000 word profile of Jerry 'RemDawg' Remy. Interesting to read that his bubbly, fun loving on-air persona is so far from how he is when not doing game analysis. In the off-season, he stays out of the public eye completely "preferring to sit alone in his den, in front of his 70-inch flat screen, and smoke his Marlboro Reds".
There are some other tidibits including Remy quit smoking this year, his side business makes about a million dollars a year, and he hates giving speeches. Remy was soundly criticized for promoting The Remy Report a couple years ago, but toned it down drastically last year.
This profile was definitely not written for a sports fan and features many apparent contradictions, but it will give you a quick sketch of the man.
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Twitter)
Mike Piazza's strategy for keeping the steroid media monkey off his back?
Telling reporters the truth - off the record. This made it harder for the reporters to report the story, and I think gave them less incentive because it wouldn't be as much of a 'gotcha'.
I'm sure there are examples of politicians using this off the record truth telling strategy with reporters and it plays right into the self-important "villager' mindset that corrodes the reporting of many DC insiders.
He's great, I just don't know how long he'll last, and there's whispers he's hurting already this year.
Recently, Rickey Henderson
was on ESPN radio. As part of the show, the announcers had a list of
The 25 Best Rickey Henderson Stories Of All Time and asked him to true or false some of them. As I mentioned in my
Appreciation of Rickey Henderson - Stories, Thoughts, and Links post from a couple months ago, that list is plagiarized from
this 2003 Sports Illustrated article (which is why I didn't link to it originally.
The 6 anecdotes clarified by Rickey below the jump...
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