You wanna know what bugs me? People who fling around superlatives like they have no meaning. Example 1: Greg Anthony, a former NBA player and now a basketball analyst on ESPN, was asked who he thought would win the Western Conference Finals series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Utah Jazz. In (correctly) predicting… Read More »
NOTE: I started writing this several weeks ago, and while I have tried to update all the references to time, I may have missed one or two. So if something doesn’t flow right, that’s why. In mid-June on Sunday Night Baseball, Joe Morgan said the following (paraphrased): You know I think wins are the most… Read More »
An article by Kevin Hale over at Particletree about the pain of dealing with subdomains got me thinking, and I realized I actually have something very applicable and helpful to say on the subject. I don’t think I have ever written here about the stuff I do 40+ hours a week for DigiCert. I work… Read More »
At the beginning of the season, before Roger Clemens had made his decision to come back to the Yankees, I did some interesting research. At that point in time, National League teams had a total of eight former Cy Young Award winners (Brandon Webb, Chris Carpenter, Barry Zito, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Tom Glavine, John… Read More »
I recently made a list of topics I wanted to eventually get around to blogging about. Looking back over the list today, I realized that four of the six topics (and a fifth one I added today) directly relate to race and its place in sports. Here are those five topics: Don Imus and “freedom… Read More »
I recently completed (mostly, anyway) work on the website for Metropolis Design, a Utah-based product-development firm. We kept their existing design, but we re-did it with Web Standards and search engine optimization in mind. There is also a lot more content up, which was one of their main issues with regards to search engines. I… Read More »
I don’t always have a lot of time to write what I want to write, and sometimes when I get a minute, I have forgotten some ideas I had. So I thought I’d do a bullet list of things I want to write about, and when I get to each of them, I will link… Read More »
I want to like Buster Olney. He seems like a nice guy, he grew up a Dodger fan, and he has a dream job. And to be fair, he doesn’t say stupid things nearly as often as Joe Morgan does. But if he was banned from ever mentioning Alex Rodriguez again, his STP (Stupid Thing… Read More »
In the past, I have enjoyed pointing out when baseball commentators have made stuff up. (I have, in the past, nailed Joe Morgan, Tim Kurkjian, and Richard Justice.) But let me tell you this: when it’s Peter Gammons, I don’t enjoy it at all. But I’m going to give him as much benefit of the… Read More »
Pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training today! After all these months of pretending to care about football and basketball and hockey, I can be a real sports fan again, because there’s finally a real sport to care about!