Personal Archive

One of the things I would like this blog to become is a résumé of sorts. Writers are a transient lot and web writers more so. Some of the sites I have written for went under (draw your own conclusions about any connections) and that translates into trying to find somebody to take pity on you and ask you aboard. Some are in the links. I don’t feel comfortable about breaking down the articles in my old blog so they aren’t listed below. You can try some of the links in the old MLBtalk site (courtesy of Wayback) but a lot of those are now behind the wall at ESPN Insider. Speaking of Wayback, I’m not posting individual links to my old TOTK/Sports bytes (about 70-80 columns) work since Wayback really messes with the formatting and some of them look like they were written by ‘The Riddler.’ I’ll try to find some of the slop I wrote for Bootleg Sports 1 (more below) however my About.com (nee The Mining Company) articles are lost as are my old Yankees.com columns.

You didn’t miss much and the web is better off with their annihilation. I’ve been polluting the web for quite awhile, as you’ll no doubt notice.

The Hardball Times

• Grumpy Old Men revisited

• The Pujols Awards: week 4

• The Pujols Awards: week 3

• Grumpy Old Men

• The Pujols Awards: week 2

• Striped Delight

• The Pujols Awards: week 1

• Exorcising the ghosts of 2007…

• Buck Weaver lives!

• Idiology

• Gutted Fish

• Does VC stand for ‘Validating Cronyism’?

• Cooperstown needs a piece of “The Rock”

• Alex Rodriguez opts for free agency…

• The 300 Club

• Getting hormonal

• Battling Boras

• Ghosts of World Series past

• Sorting through the sewage

• Baseball's greatest matador

• Yost infection

• Will Bonds be Barried in 2008?

• A September to remember

• Is it a eulogy? Epilogue? Pathetic whining?

• Is this for real?

• Scream of consciousness

• Stockholm syndrome

• Other than a rousing game of limbo ...

• Not that there’s anything wrong with that

• Road kill

• A-Rod traded to Blue Jays for Marcum and McGowan ...

• Discount da ringzzzz

• The Bible, David, Samson vs. natural selection

• Treating Barrynoia

• Selig inspiring Fehr ...

• Break out the torches and pitchforks

• Brainwashing by Boras

• A More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

• Gary Sheffield's mouth, I'd like to introduce you to Deep Throat

• Why Dukes' talent will override decency

• Rick Ankiel's Comeback

• Autopsy of a Losing Skid

• That loud sucking noise

• The War Of The Worlds

• I'm With Stupid (Again)

• Too Early To Worry

• Let The Games Begin!

• Mirror Mirror

• Five Questions: The Toronto Blue Jays

• Shea It Ain't So?

• Whom Would You Choose? (Again)

• You Said It

• Whom Would You Choose?

• Tone Deaf

• More Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics--The Pitchers

• More Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

• Post Mortem

• Randomly Yours

• Secrets Are Not To Be Fehred

• A Juicy, Jurassic, Jay, and Just Plain Lucky Quartet

• The Dice-man Cometh

• I'm With Stupid

• Better To Remain Silent And Be Thought A Fool…

• Three Ringed Circus

• Baby Pictures (Part 2)

• Baby Pictures

• Credit Where It's Due

• Oh My God He Killed Kenny

• Numerical Nightmare

• Root Root Root for...?

• How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love (well, tolerate anyway) the Wild Card

• Slappy Rue Here

• Cy Burgh

• Sifting Through The Wreckage

• It's Down To This...

• Is Larry Beinfest History’s Greatest Monster?

• Catching Up

• Daze Of Whine And Hosers

• RAT-A-TAT-TAT

• A Tale Of Three Cities: The Saga Of A-Rod

• NL Contenders and Pretenders

• Jay Break

• Jose Canary?

• Phlop

• Risky Business

• Around My Consciousness In 80 Lines

• No(ah) Snit, Sherlock

• May Jay! May Jay!

• Nausea

• I Want A New Drug

• My Boy's Gonna Play In The Big Leagues

• Don't Bury Bonds...

• Please Stop Hitting The Hot Button

• Say What?

• Michigan And Trouble

• WTF?!

• Preparing For A Butt-Kicking

• Five Questions: Toronto Blue Jays

• What About Us?

• Apocalypse Now

• Hysterical Abstract

• Leverage For Dummies

• Where Are They Now? (Part 2)

• Where Are They Now?

• Are Happy Jays Here Again?

• Hatred, Bile and Invective

• Big Mac Attack

• When Will Bud Whip It Out?

• Being A Hopeless Fanboy

• Class Is In

• It's Not The Second Advent In The Bronx, People

• Wally Pipp: Put Me Back In Coach ... Pretty Please?

• Something For Joey

• The Sun is Bright; Will Bud be an Eclipse?

• Battered Fish

• Like Son Like Father?

• Nostradumbass Strikes Again!

• It's October! Let's Dig Up The Dead!

• The Big Threes

• Fall From Grace

• Hall of Fame Intangibles

• The Truth Hurts

• Blast From The Past: The Empire Strikes Back

• The Greatest Of Them All

• Thar She Bl-O's!!

• The Day The Music Died

• Oh No! Not Another Rafael Palmeiro Article!

• It's A Funny Funny Game 2.1

• It's A Funny Funny Game 2.0

• Riffing

• Toronto Blue Jays Report Card

• American League Cy Young Candidates

• National League Cy Young Candidates

• Blast From The Past: History Lesson From 1929

• And Let The Screwing Continue

• Dumb And Dumber

• Blackmail Black Knights and Black Humor

• Snapshots: September 8, 1940 ... Fenway Park

• Have No Fehr Toss Don On His Ear

• Crystal Balls: The Slide Of The Yankees

• Blast From The Past: Wally Berger

• Maniacally In-Klined

• Under The Radar

• Blast From The Past: Jimmy Wynn

• Five Questions: Toronto Blue Jays

• Eye Of Newt, Powdered Bat Wings And Incantations

• Frozen Rubber And Horsehide

• Welcome To Spring Training: 2005 Style

• Bridging The Gap To Greatness

• My Big Fat Steroids Column

• Pinch Me I'm Elmer Valo

• Cry Me A River Build A Bridge And Get Over It

• It's A Funny Funny Game

• The Whole Was Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

• Blast From The Past: Virgil Trucks

MSN Canada

• A.J. Burnett, Roy Halladay and Dizzy Dean: A cautionary tale

• Time for the Jays to look to 2008

  What are RBIs really worth?

• In defence of Barry Bonds - Part 1

• In defence of Barry Bonds - Part 2

• How John Gibbons is hurting the Blue Jays

• How John Gibbons is hurting the Blue Jays - a follow-up

• The amazing story of Rick Ankiel

• Memo to John Gibbons...

• Baseball's cheaters: It's not hard to see why they do it

• Blue Jays forecast - looking forward to 2008

• Where will Barry Bonds play in 2008?

• Comparing A-Rod to Joltin' Joe

• The historic run of the Colorado Rockies

• Is A-Rod worth $30 million? Caveat emptor

• The Impact of the Mitchell Report

  A-Rod: Baseball's Evel Knievel

  Barry Bonds: Baseball's Fall Guy

• The 2007 MVP awards: Did the right players win?

• Tim Raines Deserves The Hall of Fame

• The Winter Bleatings

• Baseball Hall of Fame voting: Tim Raines was robbed

• Mythbusting

Others

• The Curse of the Moose (Baseball Prospectus)

• Larry Walker and the Hall of Fame (Baseball Prospectus)

• The Blue Jays' Lineup (Baseball Prospectus)

• More Mythmashing (Baseball Prospectus)

• Brattain: Not Out Of The Woods Yet (Biz of Sports)

• Waterloo (Biz of Baseball)

• A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Away...(The Baseball Analysts)

• Blast From The Past--A $1000 Giant Mistake (Replacement Level Yankees Weblog)

• A Star Nobody Wanted To See Twinkle (Replacement Level Yankees Weblog)

Bootleg Sports

(I can't believe these things are still up)

I should mention something here. I'm surprised with the anger in my writing back then. Contraction was allegedly in the works and it looked like there was going to be a prolonged work stoppage. I do recall being quite upset with the powers that be in 2001-02, I just never realized how much it showed up in my writing until I looked over a few of them.

It's funny how you remember things, I think this was from our second attempt at Bootleg Sports. Or Sportstalk 2.0. Bootleg Sports 1 had a rough start and I seem to remember regrouping for another shot. We just couldn't earn enough revenues to stay afloat. Further, I can't believe how many columns I wrote for editions 1 and 2 ... I didn't think there were that many. Admittedly, there are some stinkers in this lot--oh well.

• Heat In The Desert

• Tampa Bay, Texas, and Toronto Need Not Apply

• The Ghost Of Lefty

• The Rocket? Not!!!

• American League Cy Young Wrap Up

• NL Cy Young Wrap Up

• Dumbfounded

• The Peasants Are Revolting--As Is The Commissioner

• Spitting Image

• Heavenly or Hell’s Angels?

• Drowning Baseball’s Sorrows

• Platinum Pacifiers Urgently Needed

• Selig’s Trying Incite Fehr

• Dancing With The Grim Reaper

• A-Rod Will Be A-Met Yet

• Projectile Vomiting Anyone?

• Heterosexuals Are Attracted To The Opposite Sex

• Scars

• If You Love Yourself, Don’t Consummate the Relationship

• Manure Spreader

• The Sweet Smell Of Colon

• Yellow Journalism

• Liar Liar Pants On Fire

• Laboring Under Misconceptions

• Dropping Dead(line)

• The Serpent’s Venom

• Is Bud Wiser For Rewarding Incompetence?

• The Dark Side Of The New Agreement

• Free Agent Follies

• How [Ole]rude!