Tag: Being a Fan

My (now) Annual Slack for Lackey Request

During Spring Training last year we were inundated with stories about how so many Red Sox players would be becoming fathers during the 2010 season.   They’re the kinds of stories many of us want to read.  It’s fun to…

So it begins

I’ve missed baseball this week.  Tonight at 8 o’clock it’s back with the first game of the Rangers/Yankees ALCS.  CC Sabathia goes up against CJ Wilson, which should be story enough but we’ll get hit with how much we should…

Thank US!

I’ll have other entries about this weekend and about the end of baseball in general, but I wanted to get this one out while it was fresh in my mind.  Yesterday, during an Twitter conversation, I was telling Caryn @…

Money for Nothing

In March of 2010, the unemployment rate in Florida was 12.3%.  In August of this year it was 11.5% and it fluctuated in the months between March and August.  The average unemployment rate in New York this summer was 8.3%…