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Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
Miscellany
Word Around The Blogosphere
- Redbird Nation is cool and classy in their exhausted congratulation to the Sox. "My brother-in-law Alec said it was like the Cards were throwing the World Series, but they were really bad actors and forgot to make it look like they were trying."
- Ditto for Alex Belth at Bronx Banter.
- Bambino's Curse has responded: the blog will close, but
I will resurface somewhere, somehow, and in some form in the future (like Dr. Who after a regeneration). Indeed, I just this morning bought a couple of domains that I may use for the new endeavor. Plus for the past couple of months me and a couple other folks (whom I won't name but let's just say they make the best fan t-shirts in the world) have been planning a joint project that we hope to launch by Opening Day 2005. (You'll love it! Trust me.)
LaRussa
Tony LaRussa is now 1-3 in the World Series. Is there something about his micromanaging that causes players to choke, or at least, to press? Something I once heard about Lasorda seems that it could also be true of him as well: he gets the least out of the most of anybody I've ever seen.King Epstein
At Dodger Thoughts yesterday, I got into a bit of sparring over the difference between the message I perceived from Moneyball and that everyone else seems to get. By concensus -- and the fact that the book tells us so -- Theo Epstein is part of this "revolution" (though if it is, no less a persona than the Dodgers' own Branch Rickey has been taking advantage of it since the 40's). Today in the New York Times, a story about Theo, archetect of the greatest club New England has seen since the Bambino, whose ghost has lost its power amid a flurry of bats.Hiatus
I've been thinking long and hard about the amount of time I spend on this blog, and it seems to me that the offseason is as good a time as any to take a breather. I've needed to spend more time at work lately, and this seems a good point to slow down a bit, if not completely stop. I've got one more big post saved up, but after that, I'm planning on reducing my output in the near term. I'll be back as the hot stove heats up in a couple weeks with the November GM's meetings.
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