Recent content by ralph russo

Appreciate the responses Jim and ****. I sort of cut and ran last night because it was late but was really looking forward to seeing what if any response I got. I'll add one thing on ambiguity at the risk of making myself a target. Actually it's a question: Have journalist looked at the Freeh...

Why whiffed? I'm going to play devil's advocate here. He was there to write a book on Paterno and he chronicled the central figure's last days in that "biggest scandal in the history of college sports." What did you expect him to unearth? A confession of some sorts from Paterno? If you're...

Since I've now read the book cover-to-cover, I figured I'd chime in. If you are among the many who are filled rage because of what Paterno did or did not do in the Sandusky case, you will hate this book and feel Posnanski failed miserably. And probably even want to hate Posnanski. For those...

Problem with Hurdle as manager of the year is I've never found him to be particularly good at managing. I think of all the four major American professional team sports baseball managers are the least influential when it comes to team performance. The best baseball managers are good at using...

Holy cow this thing is up to 31 pages already! Strong showing folks.

Many of the players who were at the "unveiling" in Brooklyn loved the Seahawks' jerseys. This is important to know because generally speaking the people who complain about all these newfangled uniforms and lament about how hideous they are, those people, nobody in charge cares what those people...

Fair enough. But so far hard to see any evidence of wrong-enough-to-be-shot. Maybe that changes.

If somebody is following me around for no reason, I view that as a threat, and yes I might knock out the jackass. Probably not these days, because I'm smarter than to get into a fistfight at 41 years old, but at 18 _ very possible. There are a lot of facts still to be sorted through in this...

There is probably an interesting debate to be had about guys, such as Oliver, who disappeared way to quickly from the hall of fame ballot. Brian Kenny, or maybe it was Max Kellerman, made an interesting case for David Cone getting more consideration. I think Cone was off after one year and he...

Me and my communications degree turned out OK. A few years back I heard Tony Kornheiser say his advice would be majoring in English if you want to get into journalism. Learn how to write. Master the language. Learn the rest on the job. I wish I had done that. I also learned to write on the job...

Somebody once gave me some good advice about situations such as this and it goes a little something like this: This job that you're gunning for is the most important thing in your life. It's not the most important thing in the life of the person hiring you. In fact, it might be the third- or...

Was thinking about starting a thread about this particular topic, but why double up. Keep all thing's Casey together. My question is: Would it be ethical to report where Casey Anthony is living? No matter what you think of her, she was found not guilty. And I think it's fair to say that she...

Gold. Pure gold. My favorite part comes at the very end, in the 'positive comments.' About Wetzel: "I suspect God likes him." God hates the BCS?? And on this point I have no doubt she is correct. The great Lenn Robbins no doubt is/would be disappointed to find out he was only fourth. Pure

You know, now that you mention it, I have seen a subway ad. I think mistook it for an add for some bad sci-fi book. I would have demanded cash payments from these crackpots when they were paying for the cars, ad space, shirts and whatnot. "Hey buddy if you think the world is coming to an end...

Was wondering what the hell this was about. There was a car painted with all kinds of end of the world, May 21, signage rolling around my neighborhood Sunday, playing odd sounding music from a loud speaker on top. Also, saw a couple with black T-shirts touting the same thing walking down my...