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Vin Scully. No color analyst. Thank God for the MLB Extra Innings package. I tuned in as I was beginning to type up these rankings. I just wanted to hear Scully call the game. When I was in Duluth, Minn., I would tune in to hear Bob Uecker do a Brewers game, but only if [...]
A friend of mine was having a big party. This wasn’t the typical college-boy crap, with sticky floors in the basement from spilled drinks and a line 15 minutes long just to get to a keg of Busch Lite. No, this was an honest-to-God party. She rented out a facility near the uppity St. Paul [...]
I am the one writer here who does not *love* The Wire. Does that make me a bad person? I don’t care what you think. The West Wing all the way, baby. Aaron Sorkin could write a mediocre sitcom about late-night TV and I woul … oh. Uh. Well, my love of The West Wing [...]
I used to work at a newspaper that didn’t have a major league team, but it was a pretty big metro area, with a hub airport and the whole shooting match. It was hell. Everybody wanted to talk college sports; I might have been the only person in the metro with the MLB package. In [...]
NoPepper.net: Your home for thousands upon thousands of ill-researched previews. We roll on. NL EAST 1.Philadelphia Phillies Reasons to love ‘em: Understatement: The Phillies have good pitching. Wait. We’re getting an update over the wire. There are 20 players on Philadelphia’s roster who are not starting pitchers. And they are also damn good. When Ryan [...]
I see how it is. I’m the only one with the baseballs to make the official NoPepper.net predictions. Well then. I am now tempted to pick the Royals to win the Central. But you, dear reader, deserve more than that. Not much more, since this website is free and has no advertising. Still. I did [...]
The Patriots are going to do the impossible and go undefeated for a season, knocking off the Giants in the Super Bowl. Mid-majors will get crushed in BCS bowl games. The Yankees look good to repeat in 2010. Butler vs. Virginia Commonwealth. Ladies and gentlemen, I present the last five or six years in conventional [...]
One by one, sports in America have been ruining their postseason for the sake of making a buck. Hats off to Bud Selig, who has broken through the regular-season ceiling with his roundly panned six-game slate set for Thursday. A HISTORY OF CHASING THE BUCK Sports have a long history of screwing over fans in [...]
I hate Barry Bonds on multiple levels. But let’s be honest. The government’s case against Bonds is nothing short of vindictive. Granted, the guy is kind of a prick. That statement is true, so long as we acknowledge that “kind of” translates to “totally.” But that’s not nearly the whole picture. I hate that Barry [...]
What can we learn from spring training standings? Only that the word meaningless has two alternate names, Grapefruit and Cactus. But let’s pretend they mean a tiny bit of something. The standings certainly pass a sniff test. Pittsburgh is near the bottom of the Grapefruit and Florida *is* the bottom, so there’s that. Philadelphia’s near [...]