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A mish-mash of neglected links.
Send in the Docs: A musical assessment of the Mets situation
So first they said that Jose Reyes had sustained a hamstring injury in Saturday’s game and we held our collective breath. Then they said it was a Grade One, the “best” kind of that injury you can have. He’d miss the Sunday game and, given the long flight to the West Coast, perhaps Monday’s, just [...]
One Jew’s loss is another Jew’s gain?
Mark Cuban, Dodgers’ owner?
Baseball bonus
Here are some odds and ends for our MOTs. Despite his slow on-field start, Kevin Youkilis is batting 1.000 with his charity work. And despite his struggles, Ian Kinsler refuses to worry, as per this item from the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: The first two hitters in the Texas Rangers’ lineup Saturday were the possessors of [...]
Jewps update, March 31
Jordan Farmar scored seven points off the bench as the NJ Nets fell to the NY Knicks last night, 120-116. Omri Casspi returned to action after a week, scoring seven points with four assists in 12 minutes off the bench in a 116-113 win over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday. The next night he played [...]
Literary birthday greetings: Mickey Rutner
Extra literary: Rutner, born this date in 1919, appeared in an even dozen games for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1947. He even had one home run. But he was immortalized by Eliot “Eight Men Out” Asinof as the inspiration for the main character in his 1955 novel about the struggles of a veteran minor leaguer, [...]
Jewps update, March 3
Omri Casspi scored six points in 31 minutes as a starter in the Sacramento Kings’ 107-102 loss to the Portland Trailblazers last night. MyJewishLearning also posted the video highlight of Casspi dunking and referred to an interview posted on the site in Jan. 2010 with Omri and his older brother Eitan. And speaking of Portland… [...]
Mis-taken identity?
I have a feeling this one is going to get me in a bit of trouble. There was an episode of Seinfeld in which Jerry was upset that his dentist had converted to Judaism “for the jokes.” (By the way, this was the episode that put “yada yada yada” into pop lexicon.) Here are the [...]
NFL Week 10 “rap”-up
Birthday greetings, Harry Feldman
The NY Giants’ righty pitcher from 1941-46 finished with a tidy career record of 35-35 in 666 innings. Howard Megdal ranks Feldman (no relation to the current Texas Ranger lefty Scott) as the seventh best (out of 13) right-handed starter in The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players.
