Massive Monday links.
Posted on October 5, 2009 · 21 Comments
I’ll be on ESPNEWS today at 2:40 pm EDT.
My “scouting reports” on the seven playoff teams are now up:
I’m working on the individual series pieces, but I’m hoping to slip the DC eats post in later today.
UPDATE: I forgot to include links to my new quizzes on mental_floss, where I’m a guest quizmaster again this week. Today’s is name the 22 non-metal elements, and yesterday’s was name the original seven cast members of Saturday Night Live.
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Keith,
Any idea about the chances Ricciardi gets hired as a GM (or lower) anytime soon? I heard Minaya is interested in hiring him for a position within the organization. Personally, as a Mets fan, I would rather see Ricciardi as GM than Omar…
And thanks for the breakdowns – solid, as usual.
I aced the SNL quiz, but only got 7 of the elements. Proud to be an American!
Keith – 2 things from your breakdowns.
1)This line – “an athletic defender who couldn’t hit pavement if you threw him off a building” was fantastic. Gave me a good laugh.
2) I wonder how many people will read the Yankee preview and google “MAORP.” Either that or they’ll entirely skip that part while muttering something about stat nerds.
Why are your articles always so hard to find? I come to this blog to find your ESPN stuff. That’s so backwards. But I love the culinary posts, so it works out…
You forgot antimony.
Antimony is considered a metal.
I’d be surprised if JP got another shot as GM, but I have no doubt he’ll get a special assistant job if he wants one.
Antimony is a metalloid, just like arsenic and tellurium.
So is germanium, which is considered a metal. Metalloids span the split between metals and non-metals.
So why are some on your quiz and not others?
NERDFIGHT
I can’t believe I got all of the elements. The worst part is, I nearly forgot selenium until I thought of the movie “Evolution.” Good god I suck.
Hydrogen is not on the right side of the periodic table.
Actually, both George Coe & Michael O’Donoghue were part of the original cast repertory also.
They weren’t considered cast members, though. They were what you would now call “Featured Players”
Strike 3 to Polanco broke from a foot inside to 6 inches inside. Randy Marsh is pretending he’s in Fenway.
“left-handed, he jumps on fastballs — even when the pitch is a breaking ball”
I’m a big Phils fan and that line made me laugh out loud.
Pavano versus the Yankees in the playoffs. I want blood.
(His.)
I got 6 out of 7 on SNL, but I totally choked on the last one. I could picture her face, but couldn’t remember her name.
On another note, isn’t it time that baseball does away with 40 man rosters after September 1. Last night’s game was great and exciting, but it is so strange that the final playoff spot gets determined in a game with different rules than they use in the first 130 games of the season and in the postseason. I’m all for teams calling up kids to use in September, but it would make a lot more sense if each team had to submit a roster of 25 for each game instead of being able to use 10 pitchers and 5 pinch runners.
Keith, I saw on your twitter feed that you’re a big Morena Baccarin fan. Is that due to Firefly?
True, Hollinger, but in the first season, SNL didn’t make the distinction between cast members and featured players so they were considered original cast members.
So is it official? The 2009 Twins, the worst team to ever make a baseball postseason?
Well, the Cards once won 83 games or something like that and won the WS. The Twinkies are not that good, but teams don’t like to play in the Metrodome.