Because baseball is unexpectedly interesting, today’s grill features baseball links: 1. I only read it because I hadn’t noticed who the author was, but even Bruce Jenkins is writing vaguely positive things about the A’s. “We’ve become so watchable,” said Beane, as if slightly amazed himself. 2. Last night’s game featured the first 7-1 putout ...
Someone once said that if their was no Yankees, an enemy like them would have to be invented to galvanize non yankee fans against a common enemy. I get that. So, hooray for the Yankees! #Athletics vs. #Yankees: Crisp CF, Weeks 2B, Reddick RF, Cespedes LF, Smith DH, Moss 1B, Inge 3B, Norris C, Pennington ...
I have fond memories of a six-week visit to London when I was in college. My media studies summer course was housed at the dorms of University College London, and every day a cafeteria full of unsophisticated Midwestern kids was confronted by a full English breakfast including delicious bacon (“It has BONES in it! What ...