MISTER FADED GLORY
I'd call this blog a "Critique of Life," except that sounds way too pretentious.
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Category Archives: Baseball
Contradiction Alert: Joe Posnanski
I go out of my way to praise Joe Posnanski. He’s an effortless, skilled writer who has no peer when offering sublime, subtle columns on sports and life. Just as often, Joe gleefully admonishes the old-guard of baseball writers for … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Sports Media
Tagged Clutch, Heart, Hypocrisy in Sports Media, Joe Posnanski, Luck, StatHeads
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Sabermetric, Writer, Hypocrite.
Yesterday ESPN senior baseball blogger Rob Neyer used his Twitter feed to point out his condescending response to an aspiring blogger’s letter. I confess I didn’t pay much attention at the time, just rolling my eyes. But I’ve taken a … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Sports Media
Tagged Baseball, Bert Blyleven, Bloggers, Clever titles, ESPN.com, Irony?, Rob Neyer, Saber, Saber War, SweetSpot, The Big Lead, Tim Raines, Twitter
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Oh, right. (Quick Cubs mea culpa.)
Speaking of the Cubs and Red Sox, our friend Joe Posnanski offered a quick shout-out to esteemed Boston GM Theo Epstein. Poz rightfully lauded Epstein’s front-office philosophy on RBIs, which the Boston GM highlighted in a radio interview defending J.D. … Continue reading
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Quickly, then we’re done.
Three competing – but tired – stories still plague our airwaves, hurting our ears and frustrating sensibilities. Not so for sports media, however, which demonstrates irrelevance with each character study. Let’s deliver our backhanded compliments and be gone from these … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, NFL, Sports Media
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Seriously, everything’s a harbinger?
Apparently, it’s not enough that the Cubs’ 100-year countdown with no title passed last year with only a flicker in the playoffs. Imagine, 100 years come and gone, the autotext story hopefully erased from most hapless writers’ laptops – and … Continue reading
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Hey, Chicago … uh, what do you say?
Well, here we are again. Deep breath. It all starts again in Houston, tomorrow, against one of our best friends, Roy Oswalt. It all starts, for us (and ends, really), with Carlos Zambrano on the bump, in dreadful Minute Maid … Continue reading
Sunday morning, tomorrow looming (part 2)
I’m staring at the email not unlike a kid packing his backpack before the first day of school. I don’t really want to go. I mean, I’ve enjoyed the time away. Six months of the NFL and college basketball and … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cubs, Melancholy
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Trying not to work ‘smoking’ or ‘pole’ into the headline
St. Louis promoters finally figured out how to pack their club with hundreds of eager StL. males. Nope, it’s not the sultry babe on the pole. Nope, it’s not the promise of more babes on poles. Nope, it’s not the … Continue reading
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He’s a gamer
Speaking of our other favorite dominant regular-season team that flamed out in the postseason … By now all this offseason Cubs stuff is totally old news. The North Siders parted ways with Kerry Wood, sadly dealt Mark DeRosa, smartly dealt … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Colts, Cubs, Irony?
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Disappointing Day
Not exactly a banner news day for humorous Cub fans. First, the news broke from the Las Vegas baseball winter meetings – and not just as a floaty tidbit from Peter Gammons – that formidable Padres starter Jake Peavy would … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cubs, Television
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A.Y.F.K.M.?
So let me get this straight. The Cubs blow it in the playoffs again. Mark Cuban‘s legal status may prevent him from owning the club. The Trib may be bankrupt; and Jake Peavy a pipe dream. Kosuke Fukudome turned out … Continue reading
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Our day in the media
First of all, you might remember my bewildered ruminations on the Manny Ramirez trade last summer – I still find it an unconscionable baseball move, I still find the mass media’s overwrought scoldings laughable, and I still can’t fathom the … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cubs, Sports Media
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