Many thanks to all who’re dropping in via Boston Sports Media Watch. Took a look at my traffic and was surprised to see such a jump. The compliments are much appreciated - nice to know I’m not talking in a vacuum! Or maybe it’s just that the Boston Sports Media mafia have put off people so much that people like to read opinions from as far from Boston as they can get.
I guess that means I actually have to take care when I write. Now if someone would let me on SoSH… who IS ManilaSoxFan anyway? I wonder how big/small the community of Sox fans in South-east Asia is.
On to baseball proper… I just read the New Yorker article on the knuckleball. Fascinating - especially the part on the pan-MLB fraternity of knuckleballers. Do I like knuckleballers because they are Everyman’s revenge, a pitch seemingly for those not born with raw arm power, or do I like knuckleballers because Tim Wakefield is a knuckleballer? Yes. :) Love how the Sox are stocking up on knuckleballers. Now if someone could just bring back the eephus…