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My friend Lisa, who has spent a lot of time in Italy, sent me this link a month or so ago. The phenomenal thing is not only that he wrote only one post, but that it is of some interest to all of us who love baseball.
But I sure wish he’d tell us more of the Italian game.
Tigers dazed and confused – MLB – Yahoo! Sports
I’ve spent enough time praising Jeff Passan this year that he should have his own category, but not yet.
This analysis of the Tigers’ woes makes for nice theater (read: column) but ignores the reality. There is no hope of really measuring a team’s abilities (and disabilities) in a seven-game series.
That fact makes it hard for baseball writers who have to maintain the pretext of, um, what may we can best call “inevitability.” But as sports consumers we shouldn’t buy into the drama they have to create to do their jobs. Not that it isn’t entertaining, and even sometimes meaningful, but because the purveyors of this news make it hard to tell the difference.
Anyone who has been checking in regularly (or irregularly) probably noticed some funky doings here lately. By arduous trial and error I seem to have learned enough mySQL to be able to see the light up ahead. And it doesn’t look like an oncoming train.
Thanks for your patience. With production getting underway on the magazine (The Fantasy Baseball Guide 2007!) there probably won’t be a lot of action here. But (knock on wood) at least it looks like things are working.