Posted: August 4th, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 63 Comments »
You know that all the posts listed here won’t be coming up … but here are a few of the things I’m working on:
– Defensive numbers and what they mean (with special guest star).
– Thirty-two greatest baseball players of all time.
– Thirty two great baseball players today.
– Thirty-two greatest movie endings of all time (that I have seen).
– Thirty-two lousy movie titles for good movies.
– An American Story Told Backward (or “Backward Told Story American An”).
– Thirty-two Infomercial Products.
– Following the steps of Jerry Rice.
– Why people (or one person) loves horror movies — yes, lots of movie stuff coming up, maybe.
– Aside: Have you ever wondered this: Why are Coca Cola and Pepsi advertising all the time? I was wondering this when I stopped into a nameless little gas station in the middle of a town I didn’t know … and all they had were Pepsi products. Which is OK (though not preferable), but it made me realize that in my life I almost never get to make an actual choice between Coke and Pepsi. I guess I do get the choice at the supermarket when I buy cans (which I almost never do) but I don’t get that choice in restaurants, or at the fountains or most convenience stores, or almost anywhere else. It just struck me, people always say “What do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi,” but the reality seems to be that you really don’t get to CHOOSE that often, do you?
– Thirty two best sports books of all time (it’s coming, I promise!).
– The Cubs and pain.
Posted: August 2nd, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 103 Comments »
So, I have these lists lined up to do. The best sports books. The best baseball players today. The best baseball players ever. The best sports movies. The best offensive football players. The best basketball scorers. The best golfers. The best infomercial products. The most important people in television history. And on and on and on. You probably know: I’m very much a list guy.
But I wanted to figure out a different way to do it. And … I could not come up with one. As Sollozzo says in The Godfather, “Kid, I’m not that clever.” But I did come up with a gimmick. You ready for it?
Thirty-two.
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Posted: July 27th, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 35 Comments »
Lots of pieces in the works including something on Hall of Fame weekend, the aftermath in Cleveland and one of the great American sports heroes of the last half century. In the meantime, though, I thought you might enjoy a look at this week’s special edition of Sports Illustrated … with my story on Stan The Man Musial.
Posted: July 14th, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 32 Comments »
Several people have asked about this: I originally put up a post here about Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert and the Comic Sans font … unfortunately, I had absolutely no idea how to actually make it actually appear in Comic Sans. So I removed the post right away.
The good news, at least for Comic Sans, is that the SI people DO know how to change fonts. And so … here’s that post if you are interested.
Posted: July 12th, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 55 Comments »
As you know, I’m always working on about 30 different things. Most of these fortunately die somewhere along the way, and it’s a good thing (believe me, you would not have wanted to see my “What Jim Gray’s Interview With Pete Rose Would Look Like Now” post).
Anyway, now that I’m back in the U.S. of A., here are some posts that might be on the way.
– The New Snuggie?
– My favorite sports books.
– The 25 best movies I have ever seen
– The 50 most valuable players in baseball.
– Why this British Open might be Tiger’s most important tournament ever.
– The iPad Review — yeah, I really might actually finish that one at some point.
– What I learned about American soccer in South Africa.
– Homage to Bob Sheppard and Electric Football.
– Baseball’s worst defensive players.
– Why penguins are awesome (with photos).
– Etc.
Posted: June 26th, 2010 | Filed under: Media, Pop Culture | 472 Comments »
Inspired by this, I’m going to put together my list of the Top 100 sports books. Obviously this has been done before … but never by me and the Brilliant Readers of this blog.
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Posted: June 4th, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 7 Comments »
Reminder, that I’ll be doing a Twitter Chat — follow JPosnanski — at 2 p.m. Central time today.
Topics will include: Well, I really have no idea. We’ll talk about whatever comes up … in 160 character segments.
Posted: June 2nd, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 39 Comments »
Posts on the way, perhaps:
– Gibby.
– The Tao of Pau.
– The ginormous iPad review.
– A brilliant reader inspired post on the edginess of Miracle Whip.
– Ubaldo.
– The World Cup Preview Series from a soccer amateur.
– The Potential Generation
– Afternoon naps
As always, there are no promises that all or any of these will appear. But one guarantee: I will be doing a Twitter chat — whatever that is — on Friday at 2 p.m. Central time. I think all you have to do is follow JPosnanski and you can take part. More details as I know them.
Posted: May 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 48 Comments »
The Brilliant Reader section of this blog has always been a big reason why I write this crazy thing. I’m so proud to be part of the community of people who come here on a regular basis … the comments are, almost without fail: Smart; funny; decent; thoughtful. Even those comments that strongly disagree with my points are almost always done with respect and fairness, and even those that are not especially respectful or fair are usually pretty humorous. I’ve probably had to delete fewer than a dozen comments in more than two years.
But my most recent post, about Roy Halladay, left me with a punch to the stomach. Someone claiming to be my friend, Rany Jazayerli, publicly charged me with plagiarism. I’m not sure everyone understands how serious a charge plagiarism really is in journalism … it’s the Cardinal Sin, the fireable offense. I know. I have been plagiarized, legitimately, word-for-word. And though I never said anything about it and wished it could have just passed without delay, the person lost his job.
Every now and again, someone will email and say that I copied something from them … almost always something I had not seen and usually, at least in my mind, something that barely seems similar. I’m probably overly sensitive to the charge; I write a half-million words a year minimum, often on deadline, and I always try to be very, very, very — I cannot put enough verys in here — sensitive to other people’s work. I want to credit other people all the time. I never believe that I have come up with anything really new. But I would never want to use anyone else’s idea or thought without crediting them entirely.
All of which leads us to an imposter in the Halladay post who bizarrely and recklessly made his ridiculous charge under Rany’s name. Of course, I didn’t know he was an imposter then; I thought it was Rany and, out of respect, I left up the comment. I then wrote the real Rany a strong email because I was deeply hurt that he would do that. Now, I’m embarrassed that I had that little faith in him … of course, the real Rany did not post the comment. Some jerk claiming to be Rany did. I apologize to Rany here because I should have known better and should have trusted that he would not do that. In a way, the imposter was trying to hurt him as much as hurt me.
I suppose this is one of the worries of the Internet: That there are idiots out there who will happily to try and ruin reputations. There are too many sites where the commenting threads have ballooned into racist, sexist, anti rants of stupidity and viciousness. I have long been worried that, as this blog became more read, that the comment section here might lose its decorum and intelligence. I’m proud that it has not. That is directly because of the Brilliant Readers who set the tone. The offending comment has been removed along with those referencing it.
Posted: May 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Media | 7 Comments »
Well, of course, you are more than welcome to continue to donate money the Harvester’s, the wonderful food bank in Kansas City. But I thought for now you would be interested in some numbers.
It looks like 182 people made donations and they raised 4,799.20. Simply amazing work by Brilliant Readers.
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