Sexton and Me

Sexton and Me

Baseball

On the basis of some of the things that I’ve written here and elsewhere, I’ve been accused of being a Sexton “loyalist.” Those who make that accusation don’t know me very well. In particular, they fail to see just how a great a test of my...

Let’s Go Rangers, Let’s Go Mets!

Baseball, Hockey, Uncategorized

I may be living in the Middle East, but I’m still a dyed-in-the wool New Yorker. And it’s a rare moment for a New York sports fan of my persuasion: both of my favorite teams are in first place. That would be the New York Rangers (hockey) and the New York...

Devilish Thought Experiment

Baseball

George W. Bush and Laura Bush watching Game 5 of the 2010 World Series, with Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton in the foreground. So if I were the Devil and had, by virtue of my position, perfect foresight, I think that last night I would have beamed myself over to the...

Signing Up the Team

Baseball, Politics, Sports

Major League baseball’s free agent-signing season began today, with the Yankees making a monster offer to the Milwaukee Brewers’ pitcher C. C. Sabathia. They’re apparently also planning big offers to free-agent pitchers Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett....

The Triple Crown

Baseball, Politics, Sports

Always on the lookout for connections between baseball and politics, I was happy to see Jon Stewart mocking both the Obama and McCain campaigns for pandering to baseball fans. The most fair-weather of these fair-weather fans turns out to be . . . well, Sarah, of...

Schama’s America

Baseball, Politics, Reading, Sports

I’ve just started reading Simon Schama’s latest book, The American Future: A History, which arrived today from amazon.co.uk. I got interested in the book when a friend sent me this a link to a review of the book by Niall Ferguson in the Financial Times....