Dispatch From Dialup Hell
While Vinny's been hanging around up in my neck of the woods, I've been hanging around in his neck. Of the woods. Mahopac, that is. This is the main reason for my infrequent posting over the last couple of days. When I'm at home, I have wonderfully fast (and even more wonderfully free) DSL. I'll open 37 browser windows and just go to town. When I'm here (the girlfriend's place) I'm using a dialup connection that rarely sees the good side of 30K. I might just have to buy this girl a cable connection, because I'm ripe to lose my mind.
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Today is a day of two Jayson Starks.
McCarty expands repertoire
This is the good Jayson Stark. He profiles one example of an interesting development: super-duper utility players. He does a little statistical cherry-picking...
Kieschnick pitched in 42 games, got 70 at-bats, outhomered Robbie Alomar (7 to 5), had a lower ERA than Jeff Weaver (5.26 to 5.99) and became the first player in history to hit a home run as a pitcher, a DH and a pinch hitter in the same season.
...but nothing that makes you worry for his sanity or wonder why he gets paid to string words together.
Then there's the other column.
Yanks solid from top to bottom
Sometimes Jayson Stark columns bring to mind an inversion of that old joke: "Ecch, the food was terrible. And the portions so small!" The Stark version is, of course, "Sure it's a pile of crap - but what a big pile!"
From the first sentence...
There is no place in sports quite like the New York Yankees and their own inimitable universe.
to the last...
And it's a particularly fascinating thing to contemplate on a day when the $39-million right fielder is the owner of the most talked-about right thumb in America.
It's just absurd. The quotes he gets from players, managers and executives make the story worth reading, so here's my tip: Read the article, but skip anything not surrounded by quotation marks.
Catch you later, when I'm back to the ol' high-speed connection. For now I'll lie awake dreaming of multi-megabit connections and wondering who was the owner of the most-talked about right thumb in America last week. Google News isn't the ultimate authority (although I don't know who or what is), but they're going with Kenny Thomas.
Today is a day of two Jayson Starks.
McCarty expands repertoire
This is the good Jayson Stark. He profiles one example of an interesting development: super-duper utility players. He does a little statistical cherry-picking...
Kieschnick pitched in 42 games, got 70 at-bats, outhomered Robbie Alomar (7 to 5), had a lower ERA than Jeff Weaver (5.26 to 5.99) and became the first player in history to hit a home run as a pitcher, a DH and a pinch hitter in the same season.
...but nothing that makes you worry for his sanity or wonder why he gets paid to string words together.
Then there's the other column.
Yanks solid from top to bottom
Sometimes Jayson Stark columns bring to mind an inversion of that old joke: "Ecch, the food was terrible. And the portions so small!" The Stark version is, of course, "Sure it's a pile of crap - but what a big pile!"
From the first sentence...
There is no place in sports quite like the New York Yankees and their own inimitable universe.
to the last...
And it's a particularly fascinating thing to contemplate on a day when the $39-million right fielder is the owner of the most talked-about right thumb in America.
It's just absurd. The quotes he gets from players, managers and executives make the story worth reading, so here's my tip: Read the article, but skip anything not surrounded by quotation marks.
Catch you later, when I'm back to the ol' high-speed connection. For now I'll lie awake dreaming of multi-megabit connections and wondering who was the owner of the most-talked about right thumb in America last week. Google News isn't the ultimate authority (although I don't know who or what is), but they're going with Kenny Thomas.
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