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Read it now and you'll receive (free to the first 80,000 readers) ... an inaccurate Carlos Delgado comparison! ... a gratuitous Woodstock headline! ... a dated reference to the 1974 "All-Bobby" Bonds/Murcer trade! ... much bashing of the magazine formerly known as Baseball Weekly! ... a dismissal of David Wells from the Yankee rotation! ... a subhead that advises breaking a commandment! ... all that and a free plug for The Batter's Box.

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_Sean - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 01:46 AM EST (#33780) #
Fantastic! I laughed out loud. Especially at the Ron "DL" White disclaimer...
Gitz - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 03:03 AM EST (#33781) #
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work. Oh, and Mick is just showing off his knowledge of HTML.
Coach - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 08:00 AM EST (#33782) #
I'm of two minds on this HTML stuff. (I can hear Mick thinking "just two? Coach is coherent today.") One wants to know where Doherty is when I gnash my teeth and complain about my own technical incompetence; the other is very glad I didn't give him rights to post pictures. But all the stunts worked; I read the column and as usual, enjoyed it.

Isn't there a comma in "Baseball, Weakly?" At least the Pastime is back in the front half of the rag, and maybe Mick's right -- especially in fantasy forecasting, print is dead, killed by the Internet. The paper, once the only thing in the USA Today empire I liked, immediately went downhill when they added football and has reached bottom; it's the same writers, with less enthusiasm, in half the space. The "Delgado-type year" line is particularly sloppy; we put Carlos under a microscope around here and have no idea what to expect. Maybe Matsui will be immobile in the field and have concentration lapses, but I guess Olkin's saying he'll hit between .262 and .344, with 25-44 HR -- a safe prediction. And I agree with Mick; in a category called "Impact Rookies," how can Hee Sop Choi be ahead of Contreras?

I bought Sports Weekly yesterday, I swear for the last time, because it was the Fantasy Preview, which used to be a great issue, and I wanted to discuss what they had to say about the Blue Jays with BB readers. Since they jacked the U.S. price 20% when football invaded, it's actually cheaper in Canada (about $1.30 if you can borrow American quarters from Craig) but it was a waste of my two loonies, and my time. The feature story is a puff piece on Beat-agan.

Here's the only "inside scoop" I found to share with Jays fans: Josh Phelps is a good hitter. That's about it. Oh, and John Hunt doesn't seem to know who Chris Woodward is; he thinks Felipe Lopez, Marlon Anderson, Jack Wilson and Angel Berroa have more upside. This year. Save your money and read those clever ESPN fantasy dudes. The Toronto guy may not be the equal of the Yankees correspondent at making words dance (figuratively over there, literally here) but both columns try to entertain, and at least one informs. The A's scribe has his moments, too.
_Matthew Elmslie - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 09:10 AM EST (#33783) #
Brief hijack: the Blue Jay Way site is back up at a different address: www.bluejayway.ca . This should be, if I understand correctly, the last such upheaval. Also there's a new columnist whose first column, a preview of the '03 Jays, is up.

I would read the Yankees article but I'm blocked from it at the moment. I'll get to it this weekend, I suppose.
Coach - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 09:38 AM EST (#33784) #
No problem, Matthew. Here's Marcus Chiang's column; same rose-coloured glasses as me, and (I hope) thousands of other fans. I'll fix the sidebar link this weekend.
_Mick - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 09:51 AM EST (#33785) #
... very glad I didn't give him rights to post pictures.

MANNNN, coach. You should know better than to challenge me like that!


Coach - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 10:11 AM EST (#33786) #
Lawyers and webmasters run my blog; I am a helpless bystander.

[straight line] Why does the Star cut off its columnists' heads? [/s]
_Matthew Elmslie - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 10:33 AM EST (#33787) #
"Why does the Star cut off its columnists' heads?"

Somebody has to.
_Hannibal Lecter - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 10:43 AM EST (#33788) #
straight line] Why does the Star cut off its columnists' heads? [/s]

It's a convenience food!
_Beeah Guy - Thursday, February 06 2003 @ 11:21 AM EST (#33789) #
Getcha NEW YORK YANKEES INFO HEAH

Hey theah, Mick -- yoah stealin' the Beeah Guy's thundah heeah!
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