January 2005 Archives

A quick note to point out a few more Giants blogs...and apologies to Jefferson of Skaldheim, whose site I used to link to, but it was excised from the list somewhere down the line. Whoops. And a slightly less quick...
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This guy apparently wants Giants' bloggers to hold hands and sing "Matheny's catching my Lord, Kum-Ba-Yah."...
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Or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bullpen by E.L. Mallo I Among 55,000 Dodger fans, The most moving thing Was Finley flapping Octoberly around the bases. II I was of three minds, Like a tree from which hangs the...
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If you haven't seen, Athletics Nation scored a long interview with A's GM Billy Beane. Part 2 was posted today. The questioner slobbers on Beane's shoes a bit, but the interview lends good insight into the more emotional aspects of...
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The great Steve Goldman reports stumbling upon a 17-year-old news item suggesting that Giants GM Al Rosen nearly traded Will the Thrill plus two pitchers to the Yankees for Don Mattingly. Wow. It wouldn't have been Bagwell-for-Andersen, not quite. But...
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Steve Shelby has compiled the latest Giants payroll figures. I'll take the liberty of slightly altering the list he published Wednesday. Instead of listing salary and signing bonus separately, I'll add the figures together and subtract deferred salary to represent...
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Memo to Carlos Delgado: They're not going to like your politics down there in Arlington. Sorry, couldn't resist....
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Let's pull a thread out of our...er...out of this week's comments. Appended to the previous post, "gdog," which I believe is a Serbian name pronounced "guh-dozhe," bemoans the $6.1 million, two-year contract the Giants have given to Pedro Feliz as...
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The Giants have signed Pedro Feliz to a two-year, $6.1 million contract, the AP is reporting. They've also signed Yorvit to a $700,000 deal....
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Two quotes of note from Felipe in an AP piece that ran yesterday: "To become a major league manager is a dream that many men have in the world of baseball and only 30 have the honor to do this...
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adj., Not subject to decay. If you want to read the only sports column ever to use this word, click here. (Thanks, Elbo, for the pointer.) Said column also references the much-referenced, Alan Schwarz-moderated "Great Debate" between statheads and scoutheads,...
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I'm still catching up on all the readings I missed in India, where sportswriters have yet to turn their sabermetric attention to the national sport, cricket. One image I'll remember forever: in the ancient city of Varanasi, just a few...
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I'm back from India and fighting the evil forces of jet lag (no relation to Jet Li), brought on by forty straight hours of airplanes and airports. At least I have an excuse for saying dumb things; not so for...
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I'm happy to report that El Lefty safely avoided the tsunami tragedy in his travels, and that he'll be back and blogging soon. But in the meantime, I'd like to build on some thoughts left in the comments section, most...
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