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Manny and Ryan
“Don’t do the crime / If you can’t do the time.” The catchphrase may have its beginnings with Robert Blake—who knows something about both, and with some changes sneaks into Bob Dylan’s “Heart of Mine.” More to the point, I … Continue reading
Ryan Braun and FedEx
The man that finished a close second in the National League batting race in 2011 (ever-clever José Reyes of the New York Mets beat him out—by collecting a hit and benching himself on the last day of the season: Reyes … Continue reading
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Tagged Jose Reyes, Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers, National League, New York Mets, Ryan Braun, Steroids, Ted Williams
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Manny Ramirez Returns
The Oakland Athletics have signed the always-colorful baseball bad boy and dropout Manny Ramirez. After serving a fifty-game suspension for “testing positive,” The Pride of George Washington High School will be in his twentieth Major League Baseball season and active … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball, Manny Ramirez, Oakland Athletics
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Another Passing of a Sort: Tim Wakefield
Tim Wakefield, knuckleball (cricket fans: a specialty pitch, with the ball gripped not exactly by the knuckles but at the fingers’ edge, with an inward curl; the grip keeps the pitched ball from rotating so that it floats in an … Continue reading
Gary Carter, Whitney Houston, Many Events
The past several days have witnessed a convergence of many events, unrelated perhaps, but like all things juxtaposed by fate, each gives to the other a different and new meaning. There were the untimely deaths of only the third New … Continue reading
Cricket versus Baseball versus Cricket (and I Hope Nothing Bad Is Being Said)
ROTB received a fascinating article from number-one fan of this blog, Ron Kaplan, on the history of cricket in Israel. Noodling around the subject, I (Evander) discovered the video, below. For baseball fans, the footage shows some of the action … Continue reading
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Red Sox on the Cheap
After spending $515 million on free agents over the past five years, and having third place to show for it in 2011, the Boston Red Sox have shelled out only $7.5 million in signings this off season. The franchise has … Continue reading
Baseball versus Cricket versus Baseball
Many thanks to Ron Kaplan for the entertaining video, below. It is “baseball-centric” for sure. But it does objectively go into the physics and biology of batting, in each sport. Incidentally, “the news” regarding a baseball batter not being able … Continue reading
Equal Opportunity Sinners
Because cricket and baseball can be as ignoble as otherwise, this article by Rob Steen on whether cricket can learn a thing or two from baseball in stamping out match-fixing is worth a read. Steen skates over baseball’s less than … Continue reading
“Ulysses” (at 90) Meets “Who’s on First?”
Ulysses, the 20th-century masterpiece by James Joyce (whose favorite cricket player was Arthur Shrewsbury, who had a striking resemblance, Joyce thought, to his Zurich-based artistic confidant, Frank Budgen), turns 90 today—if my (Evander’s) math is anywhere close to correct. Although … Continue reading
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