One last pitch for Tim Drew I heard this piece on NPR this morning and sought it out when I got to work. It made me shed a manly tear that nearly caused me to blow through a traffic light. This page has an audio link to Frank Deford’s audio story as well as a transcript of the same...
I have a VHS tape of me winning the silver medal in a wrestling tournament in high school before the nerves got to me and stopped that sport, I never could do anything like this...
Dusty waves to fans after NLCS game 7 loss.Okay! Here’s how it all goes down. The Cubs are the favorite going into game 7 of the NLCS. We’ve made it this far, sloughed off a billygoat that has been a few years lifted. Kerry Wood is on the mound and we have it at hand, right? Not so, as the way events would work out. Not so. The Florida Marlins will go to the World Series for the second time since expansion brought them into the league. I am astounded, flabbergasted, and any number of other ways of saying the same thing. Jack McKeon, 282 years-old, makes it there. That is the only redeeming quality of this. Florida has no realizable fanbase. Just like Atlanta, where I live, until the playoffs. Sure, they will fill the seats at the beginning of next year, and as long as they continue to win. However, as soon as a slump comes the ticket sales will suffer. People will decide, instead, to stay in their RVs, and the team will once again have to rebuild or die. The best hope I have is that the Red Sox can make their way past the Yanks. You see I am a good Marxist, or at least a Marxist. And giving to the suspicion that the Yanks may be the best team in baseball via revenue, I cannot give the championship to those fuckers precisely for the same reason. I don’t like dynasties. I don’t think that they are ultimately good for sports or the fans. To the extent that Atlanta has won umpteen NL East...
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