Archive for August 5th, 2010

The Real HR Champ

Agreed.  I think everyone knows how I feel about this.  I still like Alex.  I’m glad he owned up to his mistake.  But let’s be clear about something: Everyone needs to stop referring to the Hall of Fame as an entitlement.  It’s not.  Just because you play great doesn’t mean you should be in the [...]

The REAL all-time HR champ

With A-Rod in the news, NYTimes.com today has a fine article on Hank Aaron. Late in his career his annual HR production actually picked up – he had a great off season training regimen I never knew about, and Hank studied pitchers’ release points by looking at them from the bench though one of the [...]

Side Notes and that “other” team.

Lost in the hoopla of A-Rod’s historic asterisk yesterday was the fact that the Captain went 4 for 4 yesterday, with 3 runs scored, and 2 doubles.  This was a good sign, and he is hitting over .300 since the All-Star break.
ESPN had some nice Jeter tidbits concerning yesterday’s game:

With his 4-4 day, he passed Joe Dimaggio on [...]