Archive for September 2nd, 2010

Speaking of Sterling

Why does he insist on having TWO dumb catch phrases for Granderson?  The “Something sort of Grandish” reference (a 1947 Musical “Finian’s Rainbow”) is bad enough.  But then he must follow that up with singing “the Grandy-man can”.  Its just flat out awful.
The problem is there is no alternative on radio.  If you are fed [...]

Prediction Check

On July 21 I wrote down my predictions of what the AL East would look like on September 1. On August 11, I published those predictions here.  Lets see how I did:

Team
Prediction
Actual
Diff

Yankees
83-49
82-50
-1

Rays
79-53
81-51
+2

Sox
76-56
74-58
-2

Pretty much nailed the Yankees performance (the KC series split 2-2 instead of 3-1 is essentially the difference), and slightly underestimated the Rays.  I did [...]