Wednesday, October 16, 2002

baker leader Dusty Baker...A True Leader Who Follows I had the privilege of working with Dusty a couple of years ago when I was heading up an online sports community called WeTalkSports.com and he was our national spokesperson. I won't claim to know him well, but I will claim that I came to have great respect for him as an inspirational leader, human being, and baseball manager. So I enjoyed this piece. I hope Baker stays with SF. I know he'll make the right decision. Managing on a Higher Level. Whatever help the San Francisco Giants' Dusty Baker has received, materially or supernaturally, he has become one of the best managers in the game. By Murray Chass. [New York Times: Sports] 10:45:10 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

ownes signs ball No Fun League Once again the NFL can't get its shit together. Read between the lines: if Owens wasn't already a "bad boy", he'd have gotten away with this clean. It wasn't a big deal. Holmgren's reaction? Now that's egregious conduct. Once Again, the N.F.L. Outlaws Fun. The N.F.L. tells players such as 49ers' receiver Terrell Owens to go a little crazy, just don't go insane. The behavioral line seems to shift from week to week. By William C. Rhoden. [New York Times: Sports] 10:38:56 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

Tell This Guy What's What! Phil Ackley, on his Radio blog today, asks if anyone is ready to see the Giants get trounced in the World Series. Go give it to him! 4:51:19 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

series sold out World Series Sold Out, But if You've Got Sperm to Trade... Robert Scoble spent the morning trying to score a World Series ticket. I just heard from a buddy who says Gary Radnich on KNBR had a call from a woman who will trade two upper reserved seats to all three home games for quality sperm. Yeesh. There was also a guy who had one seat four rows back of first base in the lower boxes for sale in the paper - $4,725 for all three tickets. I just got through on the phone. All tickets for the World Series are now sold out. I didn't get any. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 12:20:43 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

wild card series Bob Costas: Sour Grapes on the Wild Card Series Bob Costas is a TV guy. TV guys aren't happy when the World Series is played without a New York entrant because it can adversely affect ratings. So take his viewpoint in this article from the New York Times with a large morsel of sodium chloride. Wild-Card Series: A New Paradigm for an Old Game. Major League Baseball stands ready to celebrate the first wild-card World Series in history. Not everyone is ecstatic about the development, however. By Murray Chass. [New York Times: Sports] Obviously, I'm delirious over my Giants being in the Series. I'm equally excited by an all-California World Series; for far too many years the East Coast teams have dominated baseball. Maybe Costas has been too busy preening to notice it, but the population in the U.S. shifted west a while back. And I think an all-Wild Card Series is a wonderful thing for baseball. Costa's caustic comments notwithstanding, the wild card has added a measure of excitement to a game that this year would have had darned little of moment after about August 1 as most pennant races were out of reach. Oh, and one more thing. GO GIANTS! heh heh 10:00:38 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

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