Walkoff Walk Walks Off
Three years into a remarkable burn, it looks like Walkoff Walk will shut its doors for good at the end of January. The blogosphere will sorely miss the stylings of the writers at the irreverent WoW. Rob Iracane and Kris Liakos were the primary writers and editors of the site that was seemingly dedicated to immortalizing the importance of the game-winning walk, and, perhaps, shrimp running on treadmills. 310toJoba, Dan McQuade and Drew Fairservice also wrote for WoW, with Fairservice recently starting GhostrunnerOnFirst, a Blue Jays blog on ESPN’s Sweet Spot Network. Something tells me we haven’t seen the last of this crew.
But, before we lose them in this particular iteration, let’s celebrate the genius that was Walkoff Walk. Here are some of the best posts in WoW history, in no particular order:
Kris Liakos’ “Annual Teams That Were Dead By Memorial Day” post (5/7/08)
Kris discovers Rinku and Dinesh (5/2/08)
Kris interviews Rinku and Dinesh (12/11/08)
Drew Fairservice makes a link between gut size and strikeout ability (6/30/2010)
Drew comments on DRaysBay taking out a goodbye ad for Carl Crawford (12/2/10)
Rob Iracane rips off Nate Silver, argues for expansion (5/13/08)
Rob writes about economics in a semi-intelligent manner for once (12/2/08)
Rob wonders why it’s so often minorities that ‘lack hustle’ (5/6/10)
Rob skewers Jon Heyman for circular logic on Bert Byleven – a year ago (1/5/10)
Dan McQuade’s excellent movie recurring review feature, Cinema Varitek (4/30/09)
Dan laments the lack of ‘cat-ty’ analysis (6/15/10)
310toJoba takes a look at WAR and MVP votes, parts 1 and 2 (1/16/10)
With a phone full of pictures of pitchers' fingers, strange beers, and his two toddler sons, Eno Sarris can be found at the ballpark or a brewery most days. Read him here, writing about the A's or Giants at The Athletic, or about beer at October. Follow him on Twitter @enosarris if you can handle the sandwiches and inanity.