All blogged out for now
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- April
- 3
There is much to do today and, alas, blogging is not on the list.
The Yankees are not playing and I’m fresh out of things to tell you about them. I need to do my final expense report from spring training, book a few flights for road trips and take care of some other business that went left undone when I was in Tampa.
The rest of the week includes hanging out with some friends, going to the city for lunch and maybe even going to see a movie.
I won’t be covering a game again until Saturday. 50 straight days is enough.
However, my paper will have people covering the next three games and I’ll post the lineups and other pertinent information here as it become available. I’m also planning to do a mailbag and perhaps some in-game blogging from in front of the TV.
If you still need to kill some time at work, check out the Baseball Musings database.
Or just do some work, would ya?
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Peter Abraham
Work? Are you insulting me? LOL.
Watching baseball and writing on what happend is work???
Peter,
That’s an Iron-Man schedule you’ve been keeping. Excellent work. I’m just getting caught up after Opening Day. It was a good one. The guys looked great!
Recharge those batteries and have some fun, Pete – you deserve it after the great ST coverage.
Peter,
I waited all day for you to pick the Gators last night. I knew that was my last hope for the Buckeyes to win. Oh well…
Pete – a well-deserved rest. You’ve created a compelling new experience for die-hard fans and changed the way I track the Yankees through spring training. It will be intersting to see how this translate into the day-to-day of the regular season (FYI, with Torre’s post game always broadcast by YES you lose that differentiation . Sound bites from the players
and not just the obvious “stars-of-the-gamewould be a draw)One suggestion under the category “maintaining your sanity” The ARod watch will be at-bat by at-bat, fielding mistake by fielding mistake. A real rollercoaster ride. Just like him, you need to play your game and not react to every comment (shot, insult, distortion) We all know what you bring to the table. Say what you want, when you want. It is your creation. We log in and get to say our piece but you shouldn’t think you need to keep defending yourself. You’ll be exhausted by Memorial Day.
Rich: The audio is largely hit or miss depending on how quiet it is in the area. As for the rest, you’re right. I’ll try. But being less combative and competitive has never been a strong point of mine.
So…as soon as A-Rod contributes to a Yankee win, you have nothing left to write?
Peter, check out “Reign Over Me,” pretty good flick. Sandler does the serious role in it pretty well and it’s a good story.
Matt: right, exactly. I really didn’t write those 3 stories in the paper today or the 22 blog posts yesterday. Once again I have been exposed
Pete, you should watch 300, and if you’ve already seen it then you need to see it again.
“I need to do my final expense report from spring training”
translation: figure out ways to bury the beers and lap dances.
Enjoy, Peter.
Pete – 300 was great and so was Reign Over Me, but that latter was a little slow.
Pete:
You did remember to do your taxes, right?
man you deserve a couple days off
Taxes are done, yes.
RBJ: No comment.
That Baseball Musings is a dangerous place, like diving into a bottle and staying there.
Pete, any trips to Mons Venus on that expense report?
I did hear 300 was awesome. Haven’t had a chance to go see that yet (saw Reign with girlfriend, imagine 300 isn’t her thing…..), but heard it was great.
Enjoy your time off!!!!!
Enjoy your well-deserved time off Pete and try to have some fun. Your one of the best in the business.
Cashman blew it! We should’ve gotten Gil Meche. He’s a SoxKiller.
tarheel, wasn’t pete a little concerned about expensing a sandwich from the hotel shop? i’m guessing a little more towards the Pink Pony end of the spectrum in that case? and to be honest, i think mr. 38pitches himself is going to be the greatest soxkiller this season. if he has many more outings like yesterday, it doesn’t matter who’s on the mound against them.
Ok, so for all the games I’ve gone to, I’ve never bothered with the Stadium Club. I was thinking about checking it out for Friday night’s game… anyone have any opinions on it?
Pete – what did you think about NoMaas going after you again?
Oh yeah, enjoy your time off….
enjoy the time off, pete. catch you saturday.
Espn Buster Olney Today Chat
Evan NYC: Buster, with all due respect what went through your mind when you decided that the Yankees are not going to make the playoffs?
Buster Olney: Evan: Lack of depth in the rotation, questions about the defense, but more than that—I like the Indians a whole lot, with some of their young pitchers about to make an impact, and I think the Tigers are, overall, the best team in the majors on paper. That leaves you to choose between the Red Sox and the Yankees in the East to make the playoffs, and I think the Red Sox offense will be good (not as good as the Yankees’, but good) and their rotation will be better than New York’s rotation. I thought the Yankees were better last year and picked them to make the playoffs and the Red Sox to not make the playoffs (rightly), and that’s just my sense of things right now. But we’ll see who gets hurt during the season, and what moves are made by which teams…
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Thanks, Pete, for the great blog coverage of spring training. It really was the next best thing to being there.
DaaYankeesWin: I love the photoshop stuff on NoMaas and they quite often raise some excellent statistical points. But the general tone of the site seems to be they hate everybody who isn’t them. Plus they’re all anonymous, which excludes any site from being valid.
One of their message board posters sent me some examples of things they say about me and others. It’s kind of creepy. Just not for me—not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hey, whatever drives traffic to my blog I’m all for.
[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThere is much to do today and, alas, blogging is not on the list. The Yankees are not playing and I’m fresh out of things to tell you about them. I need to do my final expense report from spring training, book a few flights for road … [...]
NoMaas is trash.
They bash Peter for “hating on” A-Rod yet they turn around and do the same exact subtle jabs at Torre.
This is re the other thread, but nobody gets charged with an error on that play. Anybody who’s been watching baseball for more than a couple of years knows that. Back to AA for you, Pete, but as you say more traffic, and more traffic is what drives the media.
G for Giambino,
Nomaas definitely takes shots at Torre, however, they have made it clear they don’t like him. With Peter, he takes shots at Arod and then claims innocence.
NoMaas’ shots at Peter aren’t bad. The message boards, however, take some thick skin to navigate through the garbage.
“They bash Peter for “hating onâ€? A-Rod yet they turn around and do the same exact subtle jabs at Torre.”
i object to this. the jabs are not subtle.
Alex Rodriguez is good at baseball, and Peter is subtly contributing to the hateful atmosphere that is driving him out of town and will ultimately hurt this team in 2008. Joe Torre, not that good at baseball, but managers have minimal impact on baseball teams as far as I can tell, so I tend to avoid the overt Torre bashing. Except when he really boneheads a bullpen move.