Comments on: Lede Time II

By: Boatzilla

Boatzilla — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:52:42 +0000

[17] You are absolutely right about the sports tabloids here, but Ichiro is no choirboy. Did I tell you the story about my friend seeing him entering the Park Hyatt with some hottie and trying to squeeze in the elevator with them? When the bellhop made sure nobody else got in, my friend says to him, “So I guess that elevator is reserved for Ichiro and his wife.” The bellhop says back, “That’s not his wife.” I love the fact that Mr. Zen falls prey to the sins of the flesh like the rest of us, including A-God.

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:44:33 +0000

Berra in 1950, TWELVE strike outs! This is not possible..

Baseball Refernce helps you get through the off-season.

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:42:12 +0000

[19] Really?? Is it possible for Hank Aaron to actually be under-rated now? Most consistent player ever?

1956 Yogi Berra 30 home runs, 29 strike-outs…

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:43:20 +0000

Did you know Hank Aaron never struck out 100 times?

Amazing how the game has changed.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:34:56 +0000

How many days til pitchers and catchers?

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:18:56 +0000

Going back to the earlier thread abotu Matsui & the Sawx, someone linked to Nikkan sports homepage. I wouldn’t trust the tabloids here if they headlined “Humans breathe air in order to live!”. Especially the sports tabloids..they once reported Ichiro was caught in a blackmail S&M scandal with high-class Vancouver prostitutes..about as likely as Matsui signing to play OF in Boston!

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:40:09 +0000

As ESPN goes, this is actually a pretty decent article.
Milton Bradley anyone?
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=crasnick_jerry&id=4637105

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:50:11 +0000

OK people… this is too strange. Frightening.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4642952

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:49:31 +0000

stumbled across this and it made my night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsG_jgM4eKs

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:30:45 +0000

[9] I guess $3m is the price of being somewhere you are not wanted.

By: RIYank

RIYank — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:27:18 +0000

It’s the Internet BWAA awards.

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:17:59 +0000

[8] Huh? The voting on those things isn’t supposed to be announced for until what, next week?

[9] I’m not surprised.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:16:37 +0000

[8] Where did you get that from?

By: RIYank

RIYank — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:50:28 +0000

Varitek exercises his option to stay with the Red Sox.

By: RIYank

RIYank — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:23:20 +0000

MVP: Joe Mauer (Teixeira 2nd, Jeter 3rd)
Cy Young: Zack Greinke (CC 3rd)

In the NL, Pujols, Carpenter. Hm, and Wainwright was second in the Cy. No wonder everyone was so worried about the Cardinals…

By: BuckFoston

BuckFoston — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:03:29 +0000

I think one of the coolest things is that Don Larsen and David Wells both went to the same HS. Then later on they both pitched for the Yankees. Then they both pitched perfect games. And on top of that Joe Trimble’s Lede on Don Larson’s Perfecto could have and maybe should have been used again for David Wells.

By: Just Fair

Just Fair — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:46:08 +0000

[0] And I just realized you linked the Povich article. D’oh! Sorry bout that.

By: Just Fair

Just Fair — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:37:47 +0000

[1] I just read the Larsen perfect game article for the first time. Good stuff.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/larsen.htm

[3] Thanks for the classic reading. I love that Secretariat one from earlier. I’ve read it dozens of times over the years. I wonder if Arod’s related. : )

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:33:04 +0000

July of 1939 and Povich, an out-of-town sportswriter, refers to the Yanks as the “highest-salaried prima donnas of baseball.”

The more things change….

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:14:35 +0000

That is pretty good. What’s amazing is how many of these were written on deadline. The entire Kram piece was written on deadline even though it was for SI. Remarkable.