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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Weekend Roundup

Shank has rare back to back columns, the first on the android disguised as Tiger Woods press conference, the second on Red Sox spring training.

The Tiger column was a decent read. The Red Sox column was a bit more entertaining:

It was all about the baseball, and it made me miss the bad old days of players arriving late, out of shape, and disgruntled. It made me long for the days when the Rocket would go AWOL and Pedro would snub the franchise to stay in the Dominican for dad’s birthday.
That's Theo's way of saying "No more easy columns for you, Dan."

I've also noticed trace amounts of self-deprecation in recent articles:

Some of us (the same nitwits who worry about offense) question the reliability of modern defensive statistics.

...

But can you jazz things up down here, just a little?

“We’ll try,’’ he said. “I could light my hair on fire . . . or yours.’’
Come on baby, light my fire!

2 comments:

mike_b1 said...

Last year, he wrote the same column about the lack of controversy in the Red Sox camp:

2009
"This is like the bad old days when Red Sox spring training was an annual festival of curiosity and calamity. Players would arrive late (Manny, Pedro), walk out of camp (Roger), or fall from shotgun seats (Wade) when their wives wheeled out of restaurant parking lots. The organization would respond with all forms of coverup and double-speak. It was good fun for everybody."

2010
It was all about the baseball, and it made me miss the bad old days of players arriving late, out of shape, and disgruntled. It made me long for the days when the Rocket would go AWOL and Pedro would snub the franchise to stay in the Dominican for dad’s birthday..

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2009/03/03/an_injection_of_speculation/

mike_b1 said...

And here is the foundation of what will be The CHB's column tomorrow:
http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/news/story?id=4935675