Archive for November 20th, 2006

• Greatest. Player. Page. Ever.

  Alright, enough with Ryan Howard and his 58 home runs and his NL MVP award (the Phillies suck anyway, I know; the last time the Phillies appeared in the postseason, Darren Daulton was their catcher), but you have to admit, the player that Howard beat out — Albert Pujols — has the greatest player page [...]

• State-of-the-Art

  Speaking of Ryan Howard and the Philadelphia Phillies and in the wake of the news that the Oakland A’s are relocating down the I-880 corridor to Fremont, where they will build a state-of-the-art baseball-only stadium (I like how teams sell “state-of-the-art,” as if a team would not build a state-of-the-art field these days. Oh, I [...]

• Fifty-Eight Is Not What It Used To Be

  In lieu of Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies winning the National League Most Valuable Player Award, the winner of which will be announced shortly, it should be noted that Howard hit the quietest 58 home runs in the history of Major League Baseball. Fifty-eight home runs, good for tenth best ever (or fourth best [...]

• 9-to-5 Thoughts: Street Vendors

  As I took these photos with my cellphone camera, I thought of how differently one looks at street vendors in one’s own city than one does street vendors in, say, Paris or Barcelona. Just interesting is all.