Posted in Baseball, Family, General, Life, Sports on Jan 14th, 2008 34 Comments »
Outside of the Lord, my wife and my father there was no person who impacted my life more than Johnny Podres. A true mans man if there ever was one. As I enter the final year of my major league career and baseball life I can only hope that when it’s all over the body [...]
Posted in Baseball, Family, General, Life, Sports on Dec 20th, 2007 584 Comments »
Ok I get that. We all get that and anyone that actually read the post will understand that I was not saying Roger used, I’ve never said that. My comment was that as a fan, as someone that he made a major impact on, given the circumstances surrounding his personal trainer and the testimony he [...]
Posted in Baseball, Family, General, Life, Sports, Websites on Dec 19th, 2007 772 Comments »
Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens, Andy Petite, Todd Pratt, Gary Bennett, Paul Byrd, Dave Justice, Fernando Vina, Alex Cabrera, Brian Roberts, Lenny Dykstra, and many more. I know them, or have been friends with them, or know them through competing against them, and many more names on that list.
If you plan on writing [...]
Posted in Baseball, Life, Sports on Dec 13th, 2007 180 Comments »
I hate to think it is, but I don’t think there is any other way to look at it. Not since the Black Sox scandal of the early 20th century has this sport had to endure what it will starting at 2pm EST.
I am hoping no one I know or respect shows up as a [...]
Posted in Baseball, General, Life, Sports on Dec 5th, 2007 88 Comments »
““NASHVILLE - The Baseball Writers’ Association of America voted this morning to approve a resolution where starting in 2013 all contracts that have financial terms attached to major awards will not be eligible for consideration for that award.
The resolution stems from Curt Schilling’s new contract were he received a $1 million bonus for at least [...]
Posted in Baseball, General, Life, Sports on Dec 4th, 2007 121 Comments »
As fans you have your perspective. There are large contingents of fans in both markets, NY and Boston, that lean towards the Bill James approach to players and their teams, and probably an equal amount of ‘old schoolers’ that believe their eyes tell them all they need to know, even when not backed up by [...]
Posted in Baseball, Family, General, Life, Sports, Websites on Dec 4th, 2007 19 Comments »
Want to grab a cool gift and help a charity? 10$ from each sale of the shirt linked here is donated to charity, 5 to ALS and 5 to the Shade Foundation.
http://www.chixappeal.com/
The shirts are very cool looking.
Late ADDITION! To any Sox fans, here is another link for a few different pieces of Sox gear that [...]
Posted in Baseball, General, Sports on Dec 3rd, 2007 152 Comments »
A rotation featuring Beckett, Santana as the top two is pretty much as good as it can get. The thought of pitching behind these guys has to fire ya up. That being said I look at it like this.
If we make the move we’ll have done so with Theo knowing whatever he had to trade [...]
Posted in 38 Studios, Baseball, Family, Life, Sports, Websites on Nov 30th, 2007 78 Comments »
Seems like I walked out of the office Monday evening and turned around and it’s Friday already. Yesterday was spent regrouping from the out and back SF trip.
To say the day was full on Wednesday would be horribly misleading. Starting at about 7am we didn’t stop until we landed in Boston around 3am the next [...]
Posted in 38 Studios, Baseball, Family, Games, General, Life, Sports on Nov 27th, 2007 109 Comments »
Sitting in the Logan Airport waiting on a flight to San Francisco. Speaing tomorrow at the Dow Jones-sponsored Consumer Technology Innovations conference in Redwood City, then a few meetings and back tomorrow night.
You can check it out at http://consumertechnologyinnovations.dowjones.com/
Always interesting to be in front of and among the money/brains behind and inside the tech world. I’m [...]
