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Friday, February 06, 2004 |
Pickoff Moves
I'll Get You, My Pretty: Jamie McCourt Speaks
From Josh Barkin's Yikes blog comes news of an unheralded (or at least, previously unknown to me) KPCC interview with Jamie McCourt, the Wicked Witch of the National League West. (See about two thirds of the way down the page, under the entries for Friday, January 30.) It's part of a larger interview with Times baseball columnist Ross Newhan about the Dodgers sale. I'll probably update this from work, as my RealPlayer on Linux is uncooperative with this release of the kernel (sigh).Update: Well, if you were expecting anything of substance, you were bound for disappointment. She had nothing to say you didn't hear at Frank's January 29th press conference.
No, Jon, I'm Not Out To Get Your Readers, I'm In It For the Money
Jon Weisman worries that "new blogs are going to steal readers from me", but it's the writing and not just the links that make the blog great; if I end up one fifth the writer Jon is, I'll consider this site a success.
Grading Paul DePodesta's Term Papers
Mariners Wheelhouse has a story he stole from some other blog: a white paper written for Credit Suisse on the state of player analysis. If you want a preview of Paul's thinking before he presumably becomes the Dodgers' next GM, here it is.
Curt Schilling, The Smartest, Classiest Guy In The Majors
Now that he's left the NL West and is pitching for a team I can root for, I have to say Curt Schilling is the classiest guy in the majors. Not only did he uncharacteristically address the fans directly via the Redsox fan forum prior to his trade, but he handled his own negotiations with class and dignity, writing performance clauses into his contract that violate the players' union rules, but were accepted by MLB anyway. Now comes the news, again via Mariners Wheelhouse, that Schilling's talking baseball at the Sons of Sam Horn Bosox website. How cool would it be if one of the Dodgers or Angels would do that? Schilling designs and plays wargames in the offseason, and is part owner of MultiMan Publishing. Certainly one of the smartest guys in the game if not the smartest, Curt, my hat is off to you.Update: Jay Jaffe would beg to disagree with my characterization of Schilling after a peculiar incident involving the SoSH website, a quoting blog, and an underage goat. Okay, two of those three are correct. Why don't you go over there now and find out which two?
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