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Snakes In My Pants
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Jan 30
N.Y. Newsday: Coughlin inspired by player he’ll never forget
There is an excellent article in Newsday about one of the reasons that Coach Coughlin is legendary at BC. Here is an excerpt:
“America is … locked into this image of [Tom Coughlin] as a hard-boiled boss whose heart rarely flutters. … Jay McGillis [is] the player Coughlin will never forget. … He played [...]
Jan 30
Twins blinked
How much did the Yankees and Red Sox (smartly) not want to sign a pitcher to six or seven years at $20-25 million per? From the Bergen Record:
his was late Monday night, about 12 hours before the Mets would pounce upon their most dramatic trade in recent history. Twins’ general manager Bill Smith, in a [...]
Jan 28
Twins: So about that Hughes offer…?
We are, according to various reports, in the home stretch of the Johanana Santanana Sagaga.
Jan 27
Baseball finances
The NY Post’s Joel Sherman has a smart take on baseball’s finances:
The annual “woe is baseball” reaction arrived last week with news of the Yankees’ 2007 official payroll again being well over $200 million ($218.3) and again well ahead of the next-highest team, the Red Sox ($155.4 million). I hardly want to be a Yankees [...]
Jan 26
Yammerin’ Hank: Yanks make the playoffs or someone gets Cashed
Hank Steinbrenner press phone rang again, and naturally he answered. He now says he’s happy to go with young pitchers instead of established vets, but woe betide, well someone, if the gamble ends short of the playoffs.
“I will be patient with the young pitchers and players. There’s no question about that because I know how [...]
Jan 26
Cashing out?
Brian the Cash-man’s m-o is ordinarily to play things reasonably close to the vest. Unlike, say, Hank “Stop Me Before I Interview Again” Steinbrenner, he has shown signs of having a filter between mind and mouth.
(To wit: When the Yankees agree on a negotiating position, Cashman will tell the press: No comment; Yammerin’ Hank will [...]
Jan 25
Mike Lopresti - USA Today: Coughlin has stared down unbeaten juggernaut before
There is a great article about Tom Coughlin in USA Today.
In it, Lou Holtz recalls “”All the fans and all the media were talking about games in the past,” Holtz said on the telephone this week. “I was scared to death of Boston College. You could tell Tom Coughlin was a tough coach. I remember [...]
Jan 25
There will only be an NCAA 1-A playoff if it doesn’t disrupt the bowl system
The NCAA reports that TV ratings for bowl games — even the pre-Christmas bowls — were higher than ever this year.
“With more than 1.7 million combined fans attending a bowl game and close to another combined 129 million households tuning in to watch the bowl games on television, bowl payouts ran an estimated $225 [...]