So, I promised to get back to you on this quirky Brian Bannister day-night split issue. First, just as a reminder, here are Banny’s day and night splits for this year.
Brian Bannister by day (this year):
– 4-0, 0.62 ERA, 29 ip, 12 hits, 3 runs, 2 earned runs, 0 homers, 7 walks, 18 K.
Batting average [...]
So, I started to write this blog post on my six weeks as a radio talk show host. And then I got off on this long tangent about my friend, Miami columnist Dan Le Batard. It is, in fact, SO long, that I’m posting it as a separate deal. I’ll get that radio thing done [...]
We’re going to try and put a blog post tonight off the Royals-Tigers game. Lots to talk about in baseball. Chipper’s .400 run. Lance Berkman’s absurd streak. Justin Verlander’s collapse. My Tampa Bay Rays. The correct pronunciation of Luke Hochevar. Lots of stuff.
In the meantime though, I happened to go to Amazon and I noticed [...]
For fun … here’s my greatest day in sportswriting:
So, this was at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. I mentioned here earlier that the Olympics are like nothing else in sports journalism. You become entirely and inexplicably consumed by the Games, especially at the Summer Olympics where there are always about twenty different things going [...]
Wow, as someone who claims to be one of the nation’s leading Brian Bannister scholars, I am embarrassed to say I missed this. But I did. It is brilliant reader PC who points this out:
Brian Bannister by day (this year):
– 4-0, 0.62 ERA, 29 ip, 12 hits, 3 runs, 2 earned runs, 0 homers, 7 [...]
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