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Sunday, October 31, 2004 |
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Truer Words Were Never Spoken
Idiots Write About Sports refers us to this Boston Herald story about the Farrelly brothers and their pursuit of a baseball-ized version of Fever Pitch, a book about the woes of being a sports fan. In the original, it was about being a fan of the English football -- er, sorry, soccer -- club Arsenal, but of course the Farrelly gang had to translate it to the Bosox, about whom you may break out the adjectives: long-suffering, cursed, etc. Well, of course, they didn't plan on the Sox winning it all, and dang it all, they had to put in a rewrite to make their screenplay actually track the book -- fancy that -- which has Arsenal winning it all. Of this late disaster/opportunity:"We've always been lucky but this is the luckiest we've ever been -- to be involved with this thing at this time,' Bobby Farrelly told the Track.Truer words were never spoken..."Actually, our only discernable talent is luck."
Arrive In The Third... also has something on this.
Tradition Has Ben Franklin's Face On It
In that same article, Arrive In the Third makes a fine point:I really couldn't care less about the names on the back of the jerseys -- but stop making the "tradition argument." You can't say you need to modernize the ballpark experience by cutting back the organ and modernize the broadcast experience by dumping Ross Porter, then turn around and expect us to buy that you are so enamored with tradition you wanted the names off the jerseys.Yeah. Is Ross Porter part of that tradition? Or are you only interested in traditions that result in positive cash flow changes?
Playing GM, Minus The Borasian Headaches
Richard points us to this New York Post story chock-full of speculative goodness about the Beltran sweepstakes, what with Carlos ending up in an Angels uniform and all ("a person close to Beltran said Anaheim is where the center fielder will go"). For now, I refer you back to my response to Bill Shaikin's Times fantasies; I still say Beltran's a Yankee next year.More On Sosa's Outburst
The commenters at Cub Reporter had a couple good points about the Sosa outburst:- He's all about his home run counts. Er, maybe.
- The Cubs should have run him out after 1998. That probably bears more scrutiny, but it's not indefensible in that the Cubs have a bucket of dough ($16M in 2004, $17M in 2005) tied up in him; for that kind of money, you could get a decent hitting shortstop and plug several holes in the bullpen.
- The Cubs now almost have to trade him. I don't buy that, but it's much more probable than it was even as of Friday.
- "He didn't mention being part of a winning team." To me, this is the real damning thing: he's lost interest in winning, which is strange considering a few years ago he was floating a trial balloon about being traded if the Cubs didn't get serious about winning. The Barry Bonds of the NL Central, eh Sammy?
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