On January 22, 2003, the Red Sox signed former Twins designated hitter David Ortiz. Chris Jaffe (The Hardball Times) has a look at the signing.
Francona: The Red Sox Years is on book store shelves today. The Globe's Chad Finn has a review.
Brendan O'Toole (Over The Monster) asks: "With myths shattering all throughout the sports world, is there any role left for mythmaking in baseball?"
Truck Day is February 5. Two weeks!
3 comments:
Downloaded the Franocona book , I am not that quick of a reader, so I will have my review somewhere around the all-star break.
I am hoping the book store in the building I work at has it on Friday.
Dave Zirin, The Nation:
[T]his weekend’s football games presented an orgy of militarism. From the armed forces ads, to the live shots of the 101st Airborne watching overseas, to the warplanes flying overhead, the unspoken slogan was, “If you like the NFL, you’ll just love the US military.” Amidst the militarism, there was no mention that the greatest commonality between the violent, high-adrenaline excitement on the field and the drudgerous, when not dangerous, poverty-wage work in the US military is traumatic brain injury. The league has even engaged in a joint partnership with the US Army to share research because of the stark similarities between being hit with a concussive grenade or an IED and being hit repeatedly by a middle linebacker. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the tributes to King by the NFL don’t include the time when he said, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
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And every other kind of doom, as well.
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