Category Archives: Media

Where Nothing’s Ever Wrong: A Fan’s Inquiry Into the Role of the Baseball Rumor

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Ted

There were two astronomically important free agents on the market this off-season, and a constellation of three more high-profile players to fill the offseason skies and guide the navigation of the fleets of baseball’s rumor mongers. Messages like naval mail … Continue reading →

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Open Book Baseball: An Interview with Alyson Footer, the Houston Astros’ Sr. Director of Social Media

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Ted

Baseball is known for clinging to old paradigms, and hugging out-moded–ahem, traditional–viewpoints on media, culture, technology, and copyright. Some figures in the baseball media even pride themselves on their vintage-inspired view of the game. Alyson Footer is no such figure. … Continue reading →

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A Recollection of Victory

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Ted

The generation of kids who are now college-aged came up in the middle of a losing streak. America lost to Osama bin Laden on September 11, 2001, and continued to lose as it bowed under the pressures of war and … Continue reading →

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Situational Essay: The Language of Degree and Kind in Baseball and Life, by Paul Franz

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Ted

This Situational Essay comes from friend of the blog and regular contributor Paul Franz, whose work you can find at his blog, Nicht Diese Tone. When we construct our little narratives to explain the strange things we see every day, … Continue reading →

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You Gotta Keep Score: Mariners Broadcaster Dave Sims Talks Scorekeeping

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Ted

“You gotta keep score,” broadcaster Dave Sims told me over the phone. “I don’t know anyone in this business who doesn’t keep score.” Even early in my conversation with the Seattle Mariners play-by-play veteran, I understand the depth to which … Continue reading →

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Descent into Doucheyness?

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Ted

As the Giants ran towards a World Series victory last year, Brian Wilson was a pleasant surprise: a ballplayer with equal parts focus and humor. He appeared in odd places, and said funny things about himself and the game. His … Continue reading →

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I, Human

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Eric

A crazy article from the New York Times StatSheet, a Durham, N.C., company that serves up sports statistics in monster-size portions, thinks otherwise. The company, with nine employees, is working to endow software with the ability to turn game statistics … Continue reading →

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The Anatomy of a Hit Piece

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Eric

Not baseball, but this remarkable column by Adrian Wojnarowski on the Lebron James situation caught my eye. Mostly, I was amazed by the first paragraph: The Championship of Me comes crashing into a primetime cable infomercial that LeBron James and … Continue reading →

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Radio Motion Meditation

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Ted

A version of this essay appears at Everyday Ichiro In a previous post, I talked about sports talk radio. Now, it’s onto the good side of baseball on the radio: the game broadcasts. I listened to a good part of … Continue reading →

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Pew Pew Pew! Baseball Demonstrations from the Booth

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Ted

I enjoy it when retired pitchers turned broadcasters in expensive ties grab a baseball that some intern had to scare up for them and demonstrate how to throw a cutter or a circle change. The starched cuff of a fine … Continue reading →

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