-
Click to subscribe to RSS
Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Yank You Very Much
Bits & pieces from the Yankees’ 2009 World’s Serious win: • If Game 6 was Hideki Matsui’s swan song in the Bronx, that was one sweet sound. • Andy Pettitte is what used to be called a hoss – as … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Election Day
So I woke up Election Day and here’s what I found in my emailbox: “Mayor Tom Menino is now following you on Twitter!” My first instinct, of course, was “that can’t be good.” But then I thought, “it must be … Continue reading
Yanked Around, Part Three
Well that was tantalizing, yes? The question going into Game 5 of the Yankees-Phillies World Series bakeoff (or is that baseoff?) was: Who can replicate his first pitching gem from this Series – Philadelphia’s Cliff Lee or New York’s A.J. … Continue reading
Ads ‘n’ Ends: Mass. Senate Race
From the race to (don’t say) replace Ted Kennedy: • If you only watched television, you’d think Steve Pagliuca was running unopposed for the U.S. Senate. (He’s got ads on USA’s NCIS retreads for heaven’s sake.) Pagliuca (accent on the “pal”) … Continue reading
Kinda Yanked Around
Joba the Hurt. That’s how Game 4 of the World’s Serious felt in the bottom of the eighth when the Phillies’ light-hitting (at best) third baseman Pedro Feliz homered off Yankee reliever Joba Chamberlain. But then it all turned around … Continue reading
The Googletron Makes a House Call?
No sooner had the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider filed a post about The Googletron than – lo and behold! – The Googletron seemed to post us. Email from admin.official@google.com: Thank you enter MP3-FREE.ro We thought that this site can help … Continue reading
Not Yanked Around
Finally (!) the Yankees played like the Yankees in Game 3 of the World’s Serious. And for once I agree with Fox Sportscaster Tim McCarver: After Carlos Ruiz homered off Phil Hughes in the bottom of the ninth, Yankee manager … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Use Your Bean, Wall Street Journal
Very smart piece in the Weekend Wall Street Journal about Pedro Martinez. Headline: “Pedro: Baseball’s Last Great Ego.” Too bad the Pedro paean also included this: During his career, teammates have seen him singing and dancing in the clubhouse in his underwear … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bean in the head, Pedro Martinez, plunk in the ribs, Wall Street Journal
Leave a comment
Tom Menino Comes Out of the Closet
Saturday’s Boston Globe features a full-throated “Tom Menino for Mayor” endorsement, along with Menino’s head-scratching contribution to the Globe’s Quotes of note: “This is the me you’re going to get. I’m not going to get a haircut, new clothes, new … Continue reading
The Googletron
Just as the Internet sucks up all other media – newspapers, television, radio, etc. – so does Google suck up all other web platforms. Already colonized: email, emaps, webvideo, your platform goes here. Currently under construction: Google Books – Amazon … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Google becoming the Internet, Google Books, Google GPS, Google Wave, Googletron
3 Comments
Campaign Outsider 