As our Bradley Woodrum noted this morning, the first two games of the ALCS at Yankee Stadium — despite announced figures to the contrary — appear to have been poorly attended. Where are all the Yankees fans?
These places and doing these things, turns out (data courtesy Investigative Reporting Investigation Team):
On account of I was a pretty terrible catechumen, I don’t remember the Book of Revelation word-for-word — or even chapter-for-chapter, really. That said, I’m almost positive that one of main visions included therein — and heralding the end of earthly existence, etc. — is the one depicted in the image above.
Terrifying image captured from TBS by Erik Malinowski.
As noted minutes ago in these very same electronic pages, the author is watching the Nats-Cards game via Postseason.TV. One benefit of that sort of thing: four Pete Kozmas hitting a home run. Or, at least, four concurrent shots of the home run Pete Kozma hit, like, 10 minutes ago.
Today’s NLDS game between St. Louis and Washington (live boxscore) is available only on the MLB Network and online, using MLB’s playoff streaming-video product, Postseason.TV. Which, that means — for those of us who (a) don’t have the former but also (b) want to watch the game — that a purchase of the latter is necessary.
Below, for those interested, are two screenshots from Postseason.TV — the first an example of the “quad feed” option, which features four camera angles simultaneously; the second, of the “tight center” option by itself.
Note that, while Bob Costas’s commentary accompanies the feed, that there is no “presentation”-style editing — meaning the viewer himself controls what he sees. Also, there are no instant replays.
Here’s the aforementioned “quad feed” (click to embiggen):
The following tweet is entirely and in-no-way altered from the original (click to embiggen):
The author has not verified, but is willing to state with some authority, that all five of the men in the image embedded here were close, personal friends of late Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio and would be entirely capable of telling a story about same Yankees legend that begins with — or, at least, contains — the words “So I says to Joe, I says…”
Here are Yu Darvish’s three slowest curves that were also strikes from Friday night’s wild-card play-in game (box).
Here’s a 68.0-mph curve from Darvish to Chris Davis in the third:
People who search for Detroit Tigers right-hander Max Scherzer on Google also search for great intellectuals and artists of the Western Tradition, thorough research conducted by the author reveals. And Justin Verlander, also.
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Despite what was clearly an impressive — and perhaps best ever all-around — age-19 season from Bryce Harper, it remains the case that no qualified teenage player since the beginning of the 20th century has produced an offensive line better relative to league average than noted Italian-American Tony Conigliaro did in 1964, when he posted a 137 wRC+ for the Boston Red Sox as a 19-year-old.
This video, narrated (I believe) by former Boston broadcaster Ken Coleman, depicts Conigliaro using the sort of powerful power for which Italian-Americans have become famous to hit his first major-league home run, which came in his first-ever plate appearance at Fenway Park. Italy, the end.
Mike Greenberg, purveyor of Hot Sports Opinions, has, early this morning, purveyed the hottest of them all. As the totally-not-altered or -edited image above (which the reader is free to click, for purposes of embiggening) clearly demonstrates, however, there is at least some precedent for baseball being played on spreadsheet.
