Comments on: INSIDE “INSIDE BASEBALL”

By: JenJen

JenJen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:20:16 +0000

These are my favorite three outs in baseball history, and this is by far the best article I’ve read about El Duque’s stellar job of relief.

By: Random10

Random10 — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:45:26 +0000

If you tell me Roger Angell wrote this I will believe it. When Johnny Damon came up to bat, I made Lola stop working in the kitchen and come watch his at bat. Sometimes you know a classic even before the moment ends. I would have loved to see the meeting end with Damon whiffing away and ending up on his butt in the dust, but standing at the plate with the sheepish look of having been fooled is also appropriately satisfying.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:37:05 +0000

It was a good win

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:26:32 +0000

I was happy the RSox lost.

By: commander0

commander0 — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:59:45 +0000

Surtze has been useless for months now. Small has been quite effective out of the bullpen more often than not, in addition to the many solid starts he gave. He was absolutely the right choice for that spot. It is, in fact, the sole reason he is on the roster.

By: Doug Hannum

Doug Hannum — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:38:31 +0000

Rick,

That was the best piece of baseball writing I have ever had the pleasure of reading. And I have been at it for almost forty years. Disregard Frank’s comments; don’t change a thing.

Thanks.

By: JimBobElrod

JimBobElrod — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:14:41 +0000

Hey Frank,
Why don’t you go out in the street and find something else to politicize.
Let’s hope we wind up playing the Yankees and have Central and Eastern time zone starts. Also, it’s hard to work up a good hate against a team called the Angels. Beating the Yankees would help with a grudge I’ve been nursing since Kansas City was their unofficial farm team back in the ’50’s.

By: Frank Thomas

Frank Thomas — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:18:16 +0000

I haven’t read writing this crystalline clear and penetratingly erudite since, well…I’m going to have to go back to my friends autistic three-year old brush with a pack of crayons and the back of a Bennigans childrens menu. And I say this as a (to mirror your love of cliche) dyed-in-the-wool White Sox fan. Just a hint here Mr. Lardner-sentences with more than three clauses strung together usually digest a bit easier with commas somehwere in the sentence. I would also try to avoid mixing metaphors like drinks at Bush’s favorite bar.

I will give you this: as an obvious fan of pResident Dumbass it is clear your English skills transcend the man who who wrangles with sentences like Barney sprawled out on the tarmac or a drunk on a mountain bike. ‘Is our children learning’ he once famously asked. I’ll read your next tome and see.