December 2007

  • Claymation Mel Allen

    Anyone out there know of a spot on the intertubes that has a screencap or video of a This Week In Baseball with the very creepy Mel Allen claymation? It appears this actually happened and not one of those things I “remembered” happening, but were actually some sort of weird dream I had. Any…

  • Intellectual Heavyweights Slug It Out over Intellectual Lightweight

    J.C. Bradbury of The Baseball Economist fame and the guy who basically taught me everything I know about Baseball economics, Andrew Zimbalist are having an exchange over J.C.’s book. The amount of respect I have for both these guys far exceeds the amount of respect I have for myself (as many posts here at…

  • A Three Quarters of the Way Until April Fools Joke?

    Slate.com’s Tom Scocca puts on his speedos and splashes playfully around in the journalistic sewer. I once submitted an article to Slate and got turned down. After seeing this exercise in dung chucking being greenlit, the shame I feel at being turned down has multiplied tenfold. Seriously Tommy, are you kidding me? You don’t…

  • Catching Up is Hard to Do

    Comma comma down dooby doo down down. Dental work, a documentary, the holidays and my own personal shortcomings have left us dark for a while and for that I apologize. So let’s do the hard work and get back up to date with a roundup post: