However NFL commissioners are removed, this one needs to go, whether for mis- or malfeasance in office. The attempt to hang Brady and, by extension, to hamstring the Patriots, was a put-up job from the beginning. Goodell’s not the only rat in this: other team owners went along when they should have spoken […]
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NOW IMPEACH ROGER GOODELL
February 14, 2017Kill The Umpire!
September 29, 2011Two teams, the Red Sox and the Braves, have suffered colossal collapses and lose playoff spots for this baseball year. Due to career mobility, mine is a serialized fan history, from the Cardinals to the Braves and Diamondbacks, and in these latter days I root for the dearly departed Sox from Beantown. So […]
Despicable Them: Baseball Strikes Out
April 4, 2011Ah, just listen to the crack of the bat and the roar of the crowd. But it’s not a game anymore, only a newly-minted circle of the super-rich whose teams are wagered on in office betting pools and imagined to be gods by children. Kids always felt that way about their hardball heroes, back to […]
In Memoriam: How George Steinbrenner Compromised the Future of Baseball
July 15, 2010The brain of a sports fan is not a rational one. One may be a loser, broken-hearted, and victim of bad luck, bad genes or bad temper, and all is well if his fave team wins a championship. Sports writers, announcers, SportsCenter jocks and their kin, of whom there seem to be a frightful number […]
Damn Yankees
May 9, 2010[Baseball, sad to say, is a spectacle of all the other teams chasing the Rich Kids. It isn’t a miracle that the Yankees win so often, it’s a huge one that they ever lose] Given that it is the rest of the baseball world’s perennial hope to beat the Yankees every year, a little objectivity […]
Return of the Tiger
March 19, 2010The meaning of celebrity, and who ought to be whose heroes. The world is at odds with itself over the imminent return of Tiger Woods. Golfers are united in the conviction that it’s the best of all worst worlds–else, no one will care, let alone watch the PGA. All others are split over the morality […]
All Is Forgiven
July 11, 2009“All Manny had to do, like A-Rod, was hit a homer or knock in a run, and all would be forgiven” Manny Ramirez was about to bat for the first time since his suspension for use of banned substances–a euphemism that means he’s a dirty rat who’s done his part, with others, to ruin baseball. […]
Ichabod's Kin 