Speaking of short outfield porches (see three posts down), here is a question I’ve asked before and never had adequately answered: Why are baseball outfields deepest in centerfield and shallowest in left and right? Why not a uniform distance all the way around?
ESPN’s resident Bostonian, Peter Gammons, said here on “Mike & Mike in the Morning” that the new Yankee Stadium is poorly conceived and widely ridiculed.
We all know Albert Pujols is one the best players in baseball, but on Thursday night he also proved there is no I in team. While hitting his 14th homerun of the season he took out the I in the “Big Mac” sign at Busch stadium
I can’t say that it’s the most talked about thing in Red Sox Nation, because frankly, no one really wants to talk about it. They’d rather talk about Jason Bay’s great numbers, or Daniel Bard’s premiere, or how great it is to have this much talented pitching. But it’s on everyone’s mind
A clarification on that post about today being the 70th anniversary of the first televised sports event: Actually, the Columbia-Princeton baseball game was the first televised event in the U.S. Nearly three years earlier, the Germans experimented with broadcasting some of the Olympic Games in Berlin.
I used up so much of my space in the Friday column on Chris Russo’s excellent quotes that I didn’t get a chance to convey what I thought of his Sirius XM show after listening to it for five hours Wednesday. Here’s one thing I found interesting: When they were “Mike and the Mad Dog,” Russo and Mike Francesa enabled each other to push the outer limits of their designated personae - one an amiable goofball, the other an arrogant know-it-all.
I used up so much of my space in the Friday column on Chris Russo’s excellent quotes that I didn’t get a chance to convey what I thought of his Sirius XM show after listening to it for five hours Wednesday. Here’s one thing I found interesting: When they were “Mike and the Mad Dog,” Russo and Mike Francesa enabled each other to push the outer limits of their designated personae - one an amiable goofball, the other an arrogant know-it-all.
The Yankees Thursday announced new procedures for batting practice that will allow fans without tickets near the field to get close to it - but not in the Legends Suite. I wasn’t that big on autographs as a kid, and I’m still not. Once I asked Bonnie Bernstein to autograph something at the Super Bowl because as a child she studied at the gymnastics academy my daughter was attending at the time.
Most of you, (I wasn’t old enough) remember Alyssa Milano from the show Whos the Boss , or evn the smoking hot mediocre singer, but I know Alyssa Milano as the hottest diehard baseball fan I’ve ever seen. Why can’t any man not be attracted to Alyssa Milano, she’s sexy and she is a die hard LA Dodgers fans you’ll ever meet
A source with direct knowledge of the situation informs WatchDog that Anna Benson has had early discussions with VH1 about a potential reality series. (I originally broke the news on Twitter, then remembered I work for Newsday, not Twitter.) Face it: They just don’t make New York baseball wives like Anna anymore.