http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7tK2mQIkxE
This is an experiment. I used free Google Hangouts On Air to record and broadcast this live just a few minutes ago. The recording is available on youtube at the link above. Obviously, no one was likely to have realized that there was a live event in time to join this public hangout but in the future I might schedule an event and make that known here at my written blog.
Google Hangouts On Air permits up to nine others to join simultaneously. As moderator I can drop someone who is disruptive and even ban that person from future participation.
This could be a better more dynamic medium than the blogtalkradio thing I did for a while:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radicalbaseball/2010/11/04/various-new-topics
Let's see how it goes.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Red Sox fans, why mock Derek Jeter?
During last night's Yankee game in Fenway Park Boston Yankee captain and icon Derek Jeter dropped a routine pop fly for an error and an unearned run. Red Sox fans cheered. That was not unexpected but what was surprising was that the cheering persisted and clearly turned into mocking Jeter.
I am a Yankee fan but I realize that the baseball deification of Derek Jeter is premature, unwarranted and overdone. Still, the guy plays hard and almost always says the right thing, no matter how boring. See:
Thursday, September 16, 2010 Derek Jeter behaved badly and should apologize.
So why mock Jeter? Was it Boston's parochialism that led it to abuse its greatest athlete, Bill Russell of the Celtics? Was it the insulation of having more black people on the two baseball teams combined than in the Fenway stands?
I've seen his before. In 1978 Boston fans mocked Yankee pitcher Catfish Hunter when the Red Sox drove the clearly ailing Hunter from the mound. What satisfaction did they derive? Catfish, who stoically took the abuse, was another noble warrior who never offended them except that he played for the Yankees. Jeter does not merely play for the Yankees. Derek Jeter is a Yankee. Always was. Always will be.
New York's not perfect. To quote myself:
I never met a Met fan who knew what he was talking about ... or a Boston fan of any sport.
I am a Yankee fan but I realize that the baseball deification of Derek Jeter is premature, unwarranted and overdone. Still, the guy plays hard and almost always says the right thing, no matter how boring. See:
Thursday, September 16, 2010 Derek Jeter behaved badly and should apologize.
So why mock Jeter? Was it Boston's parochialism that led it to abuse its greatest athlete, Bill Russell of the Celtics? Was it the insulation of having more black people on the two baseball teams combined than in the Fenway stands?
I've seen his before. In 1978 Boston fans mocked Yankee pitcher Catfish Hunter when the Red Sox drove the clearly ailing Hunter from the mound. What satisfaction did they derive? Catfish, who stoically took the abuse, was another noble warrior who never offended them except that he played for the Yankees. Jeter does not merely play for the Yankees. Derek Jeter is a Yankee. Always was. Always will be.
New York's not perfect. To quote myself:
I never met a Met fan who knew what he was talking about ... or a Boston fan of any sport.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Nasty Factor
mlb.com
I was glancing at the pitch by pitch for a game today and saw NF (Nasty Factor) in addition to a description (fastball, slider, etc.) and miles per hour (mph). I can't find the balloon definition but it seemed interesting.
For the few minutes I followed the game this way it helped me see what the previous batter had done, which I missed because I was so bored I was doing other stuff, like watching the 1972 movie 1776. Hey, I'm a real American.
radicalbaseball.blogspot.com
I was glancing at the pitch by pitch for a game today and saw NF (Nasty Factor) in addition to a description (fastball, slider, etc.) and miles per hour (mph). I can't find the balloon definition but it seemed interesting.
For the few minutes I followed the game this way it helped me see what the previous batter had done, which I missed because I was so bored I was doing other stuff, like watching the 1972 movie 1776. Hey, I'm a real American.
radicalbaseball.blogspot.com