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    2023-24 Celtics

    Well. That was fun. With the big six in street clothes, and Hauser and Pritchard anchoring the Maine Celtics, they beat up the beaten down Charlotte contingent. It tells us literally nothing, reveals nothing we didn't already know. But it was entertaining and fun, and watching the six...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    Am I the only one who is grieving the end of this remarkable season? Make no mistake, I'm excited for the playoffs, too, and nothing will please me more than hanging #18. But this has been a joy ride, from start to finish, and the slow, largely unpressured march of the regluar season, from...
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    2023-24 Maine Celtics game thread

    I had the pleasure of watching him not long ago and you've described my feelings to a T. He sees the court extremely well, and has a nice stroke. He needs about 20 pounds of muscle, however, and is frame is pretty slight. Intriguing, though, and I'm glad that we've got him for a while.
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    JD Davison, 2nd round pick

    I have no idea what the suspension is about, but I was at the Maine Celtics game a week ago, sitting right behind the team bench, and I was amazed at some of his behaviors. He didn't come onto the floor until about two minutes before tip off. He often sat at the very end of the bench during...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    This would make sense of why Mazzulla may have struggled last year in game, with the calling of time outs and other in-game decisions. Now, with a year's experience under his belt, he's excelling not only at scheming the big picture, who's on the floor with whom, etc. But also making good...
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    Jaylen Brown: Will he be enough in Year 8?

    Lots of love for this line. LOL
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    Can you believe it: Joe Castiglione, the 2024 Ford C. Frick Award winner!

    In his prime, and he's perhaps a few years beyond that now, no broadcaster did a better job of letting you know what it felt like to be in the ballpark with him. Home or road, Joe always had nuance and detail at his fingertips that conveyed not only what was happening, but what it felt like as...
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    Tim Wakefield has passed away from brain cancer at 57 (10/1 update)

    I always thought that that Tim Wakefield had to be the most courageous player in the game. I mean, he's standing there, 60 feet away from ferocious hitters, armed with nothing but that knuckler, a pitch that he could not throw with all his might, for doing so would make it hittable. Instead...
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    Bloom, Cora -- Do they stay or do they go?

    And lighting. I see several games a year at Hadlock in Portland, and even though the lighting has vastly improved in the past few years, it's still midnight compared to MLB lighting. Playing most games at night, I can't help but think that both defense and hitting are improved with the better...
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    When to get excited?

    Before game 4 in 2004, I emailed a friend, "It seems that there is a game scheduled for the Red Sox today, might as well go ahead and try to win it." Of course, I sent the same email each day for the next eight games. It seems that there is a game scheduled for the Celtics tomorrow, might as...
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    2023 A's: Worst MLB Team Ever?

    The 1899 Cleveland Spiders were in the single "big league" the National League of 12 teams. Their owners also owned another NL team, an arrangement called syndicate ownership. The owners traded all the good Spiders to themselves, and left the rotting carcass behind. After June or so, they...
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    2023 Starting Rotation

    Well, we'll just cross that bridge when we come to it.
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    NFL best players by Uni number (per Mitchell & Ness)

    Bradshaw
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    Bill James for the Baseball HOF

    Kirby Higbe.  Wrote "The High Hard One."
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    Bill James for the Baseball HOF

    I want it, too.     Bill James did more to enhance my understanding of baseball than any human being.  His abstracts, while in retrospect obviously tentative first steps toward an analytic understanding of the game, were amazing to me, and I read them with great anticipation.  James was the...
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    Ortiz. toast?

    Duck!  
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    Unusual plays

    Saw this happen just last week at Sea Dogs Game in Portland.  A pitch was chopped into foul territory down the first baseline, hit six or eight feet foul.  Batter stopped running, and it bounced back into fair territory spinning like crazy.  Easy out at first.  
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    Bean visiting MLB Teams

    It's not Christians as such who have trouble accepting LGBTQ folks, but rather Christian fundamentalists.  There are Christians, I'm one, who don't read the Bible literally.  I don't believe the world was created in 6 days, and I don't think that homosexuality is inherently sinful.  I don't want...
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    Baseball’s Fight With Fatigue

    I'm sure that all of this is a factor, especially the travel.  But there's simple math here too.  A baseball season is 26 weeks, give or take.  In 26 weeks, the average American worker gets 52 days off, just with weekends.  We also earn vacation days, personal days and sick days.  Now I know...
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    Teams might bid on All-Star Game starting in 2017

    This time, it counts!     Is this a serious proposal?  If so, they're now making home field advantage in the World Series contingent on the outcome of a game whose home field is determined by the standings of exhibition games. 
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