Weekend Reading: Lost Sock Edition
Step right up, get your Saturday afternoon reading right here!
First, Baseball Prospectus Unfiltered has a must-read interview with Chili Davis on being the only Yankee to get a hit—and a home run, at that—in Pedro Martinez’s famous, 17-strikeout game in Yankee stadium from 1999.
Home Run Derby has the sad-hilarious (sadlarious?) pictures of some of the worst seats in America’s major league ballparks.
Squawking Baseball takes Buzz Bissinger to task for some inopportune words about baseball salaries.
Speaking of money, the Biz of Baseball links to a report that Harold Reynolds and Hazel Mae, formerly of NESN, will be joining the new MLB Network. I have to wonder if he will inappropriately hug her.
Joe Posnanski has a nice, long, director’s cut of a story he wrote about A’s reliever Brad Ziegler.
Sox Addict has ESPN leaving single, red socks in LA laundromats.
FireNedCollettiNow is discouraged by Manny’s inaugural GDIP. Given the name of the blog, I’m shocked, shocked.
And last week, while in North Carolina, I penned my weekly column for the Boston Metro about the Angels and their deceptively craptastic offense. Of course, later that same day, they acquired Mark Teixeira. Oops.
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