Monthly Archives: April 2009
Let’s all watch somebody Twitter: Fox Sports Ohio’s Jeff Brantley and new media
I’ve watched Fox Sports Ohio for the last few days, as the Astros played a series with the Reds. The Fox broadcasters, Thom Brennaman and the former reliever “Cowboy” Jeff Brantley, have an ongoing “plot” along with the Reds broadcast … Continue reading
Filed under Social media
What’s so big about Lance Berkman
This is a new static page at the top of the page, heading in the direction of explaining the name of this blog to others, and attempting to articulate for myself the appeal of the namesake. When it comes to … Continue reading
Filed under Style
On baseball fields, and space, and grass
Many writers cite the green expanse of a baseball field that pops into view upon emerging from the sub-grandstand walkways of the nation’s ballparks. The field–and the idea of a field–is integral to our historical and cultural image of baseball, … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
bigPumaLinks: Easter edition
If you’re not following the baseball yatra (yatra: n. [Hindi] journey; travel) of Rinku and Dinesh as they train as pitchers in the Pirates system, you’re missing two kids learning baseball from the ground up, in a most unusual manner. … Continue reading
Filed under bigPUMALinks
Bill “Spaceman” Lee knows a hitter when he sees one, and he sees Manny
My philosophy about Manny Ramirez is in total accord with Bill “Spaceman” Lee’s in this recent interview with ESPN: the hitting trumps. It really is hard to imagine his presence becoming so negative in Boston that it outweighed his prodigious … Continue reading
Filed under Style
