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Dodgers need a slice of Piazza in 2008
I was a little sad to hear that Mike Piazza retired this week, unsigned and out of uniform. For Barry Bonds to fade out of baseball and disappear unclaimed and unwanted makes sense. It is unfortunate to see the greatest offensive catcher ever ride off into the sunset without a grand tour to let his [...]
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- Evidence That SOME Sports Doping May Be Inadvertant
October 18th, 2007 - The little book of dreams
June 20th, 2007The Oregon State Beavers lost. To UC. Bad. Totally outplayed. Not today in the run up to the college world series, but a few weeks ago on Memorial Day when they were here in town to play my alma mater, the UCLA Bruins. It’s not hard to tell that baseball rules in my house. Between [...]
- The unassisted double play
May 29th, 2007Its 9:30 on a sunday morning and I’m standing on the sun scorched grass of a high school practice field watching 10 little boys in bright orange Tiger jerseys facing down one loan Met with a 29 inch aluminum bat in his hands. Standing on first and ready to run is another little Met. Everybody [...]
- Cheating, Lying, Doping – a philosophy of failure
May 27th, 2007I’ve been following the coverage of doping in the cycling world over at Bicycle.Net and thinking a bit about the nature and value of sports. In the 1730s the RamChaL, an Italian Jewish philosopher and Kabbalistic mystic, wrote a guidebook to doping and cheating in sports. Well, he probably didn’t have sports in mind when [...]
- California Trout Season 2007
April 26th, 2007The California Game and Fish Commission reports: Massive trout stocking — of a magnitude we haven’t seen since the 1990s — is coming to a stream, pond or reservoir near you. If you don’t go trout fishing this spring, you’ll likely miss the best season in years! (April 2007) See for yourself! (video 4MB) Trout [...]
