So what if it’s after the All-Star Break?
Actually, since I got a (surprising) number of complaints that my invariably wrong predictions fell by the wayside this year, sacrificed at the altar of actually trying to pay my rent, I thought I’d try to revisit what I had *planned* to write now that we’ve reached […]
I am breaking my long streak of not posting to suggest that you watch “Sugar.” It’s an HBO film that is surprisingly good… I have a weird hangup about this film, in that I don’t know if you need to be in the bizarre emotional state I’m in (four surgeries in, rehab still failing, wondering […]
Today is the two-year anniversary of the first surgery on my left knee. In the past 24 months, I have attended roughly 150 physical therapy sessions (not counting daily work on my own), had three more surgeries, suffered from one systemic staph infection, and gone through 8 physical therapists. I still can’t go down stairs […]
Seeing as it’s a month into the season, I should probably get around to writing up the NL East and Central. I don’t have anything terribly insightful to say; I like the Cubs and the Phillies, with the Mets taking the wild card. The Marlins are an illusion, the Brewers have lost too much pitching, […]
I can’t decide whether this is the worst division in baseball, or if that honor goes to the AL West. The AFC West and NFC West are similarly putrid. Why are all the good teams east of the Mississippi in both the NFL and MLB? I’m not sure.
For the Rockies, 2007 just keeps looking […]
I’m already running late, so I will move quickly to the AL East, which by all accounts holds the best three teams in baseball despite them all getting off to shaky starts. As I pointed out in the AL Central preview, it’s hilarious that one of the Rays, Sox, and Yankees will miss the playoffs, […]
As a fan, I feel torn about the Central. One the one hand, I love a competitive division, where any team has a chance to win it, and last year just 14 games separated first place from last place in the Central. On the other hand, I like watching good teams, and the Central was […]
Wow, it’s been nearly 7 months since I last made a post on here, 11 months since my last knee surgery (still can’t go down stairs), and 30 months since I last played baseball. However, at least, for the first time since October of 2006, I played catch over spring break, and the elbow felt […]
Check it out.
(as I always do), I’m going to run thr0ugh the rest of the NL Newsblast-style.
The central has two good teams- Chicago and Milwaukee. Chicago has better pitching, but not so much better that it’ll make up for the Brewers’ lineup. Before the season, I thought Fukodome was a great signing, but I thought it […]
For years, the NL West has been the crappiest division in baseball. With the Rockies and D-Backs in the NLCS last year, that appears to have changed. It’s a mystifying division to me, because I can’t figure out if there are three legitimately good teams or if Colorado and Arizona were really just mediocre teams […]
I’m running out of time on these, so before the season can start, I’m going to throw these out there and explain them later.
NL West:
SAN DIEGO
Arizona
Los Angeles
Colorado
San Francisco
NL Central:
MILWAUKEE
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Houston
Pittsburgh
NL East:
I still haven’t made up my mind on the East, which I think is going to be the tightest division […]
I used to do the East last, but I guess when the Red Sox have won two world series in four years, it’s a little less important to pit the Red Sox and Yankees as a struggle between good and evil. Make no bones about it, the Yankees are still everything that’s wrong with everything, […]
There’s one thing I forgot to mention in the AL West predictions, of which Chuck’s comment reminded me: The Mariners are the perfect team to sign Barry Bonds. There’s just absolutely no way they would, but as he pointed out, they are rich in pitching but are going to struggle to score runs, have a […]
No, HBWT is not dead! Instead, we’ll talk about a dead division, the AL West!
Well, maybe that’s not fair, but basically, there is one good team in the West, one team I think might be good, and two stinkers. Let’s start with them.
I went the other way last year and picked the As […]
Long story short, I was googling something about Rouen, and this picture popped up:
I’ve been there roughly a hundred times, including my first arrival in Rouen when Sylvain picked me up. I’ll always remember it, though, as the backdrop for this picture. It may be my happiest in France.
In other news, knee rehab […]
This being my last weekend in French baseball, I figured I needed something to get me fired up, to rekindle the excitement of that first day flying from San Francisco to France. I needed something of an edge, too, something that would put me over the top.
That’s right.
The moustache is back.
Editor’s Note: Feast or famine, it seems. After weeks with nothing, you get this Kaczynski-style rant… oh well. I thought about breaking it in two, but it seemed better to just get it down on paper while it was fresh. Hugs and handpounds,
Ev
Seeing as how I tend to run off at the lip from […]
Sorry for the lack of updates. I am in the middle of another four weeks off before our game on the 21st at home against La Guerche. There is actually a lot to report in the HBWT world, but it will have to wait until another day as I have not had the opportunity to […]
Now you know how I felt about some of those calls in the games against PUC.
A short drive from the Formula 1 took us to the Toulouse baseball field. It’s a very respectable field, no goofy cutout infields or concrete mounds or anything. The team is actually just called Stade Toulousain, with interlocking ST on their caps, because they’re affiliated with the Stade Toulousain rugby team, one of the biggest, […]
Saturday found us road-tripping south to Toulouse. The team wanted to avoid a debacle similar to that which surrounded our travel to Montpelier- a last minute increase in our train tickets nearly doubled the team’s cash outlay- so we traveled in the ultimate budget option, a minibus. Now, I can hear what you’re saying. “Ev, […]
I have a post prepared that will run later on French Hip Hop, but in driving home from the Fete de la Musique (more on that later as well), I heard on the radio a local hip hop group trying to garner street cred in a late night SkyRock (more on that later as well, […]
