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Comments on: How to win friends, etc: A review of George Vecsey’s “Baseball” http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:41:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: djarm18 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/#comment-31013 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:31:25 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/#comment-31013 Call me foolish or clueless, but I just like Joe Morgan's voice. He's better on radio admittedly, but I think most Sox fans can't get over 1975. Seth, thank you for reading that tripe for us. That book sounds awful. A many journalists- especially in the pop music field- are long on witty commentary but come up short when it comes to sound organized ideas. But they have a name with some cache, and alas, they land a publishing deal. Maybe I'm being cynical, but tell me it ain't so, Seth. Also, Seth, my employeer's filter out any sport and blog content on our browsers... but amazingly your blog comes through!!! It is a life-saver. Please don't start tagging your websites with hidden keywords like sports, Sox, and sex. I would then be forced to read endlessly innacurate wiki postings on subjects like solar flares or something. Go Sawx! Call me foolish or clueless, but I just like Joe Morgan’s voice. He’s better on radio admittedly, but I think most Sox fans can’t get over 1975.

Seth, thank you for reading that tripe for us. That book sounds awful. A many journalists- especially in the pop music field- are long on witty commentary but come up short when it comes to sound organized ideas. But they have a name with some cache, and alas, they land a publishing deal. Maybe I’m being cynical, but tell me it ain’t so, Seth.

Also, Seth, my employeer’s filter out any sport and blog content on our browsers… but amazingly your blog comes through!!! It is a life-saver. Please don’t start tagging your websites with hidden keywords like sports, Sox, and sex. I would then be forced to read endlessly innacurate wiki postings on subjects like solar flares or something.

Go Sawx!

]]> by: John B. http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/#comment-30990 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:43:49 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/#comment-30990 Joe's insistence that pitchers would come inside while the shift was on also styimed me (particularly as I watched Schilling throw like 5 straight outside.) Joe at least admitted he'd been wrong there. That guy is an absolutely dreadful announcer. Even my girlfriend (who's watched maybe 15 baseball games in 25 years) was pointing out his stupidity. Re: the review - well done. The NY Times needs some serious help in the sports writer department. Joe’s insistence that pitchers would come inside while the shift was on also styimed me (particularly as I watched Schilling throw like 5 straight outside.) Joe at least admitted he’d been wrong there. That guy is an absolutely dreadful announcer. Even my girlfriend (who’s watched maybe 15 baseball games in 25 years) was pointing out his stupidity.

Re: the review - well done. The NY Times needs some serious help in the sports writer department.

]]> by: miles44 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/#comment-30961 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:41:01 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/#comment-30961 Last night the most painful aspect of the game was not Joel Piniero's inability to, like, get anybody out, but Joe Morgan's continued insistence that the SS should never play on the right side of the 2B bag, ever. Even when The Shift resulted in a couple of outs, Morgan immediately took to explaining why the out would've been made with a traditional defensive set-up. Why are Morgan and McCarver still announcing? Seth, can you start a campaign to get them replaced with color commentators open to ideas that have been conceived in the last 40 years? Last night the most painful aspect of the game was not Joel Piniero’s inability to, like, get anybody out, but Joe Morgan’s continued insistence that the SS should never play on the right side of the 2B bag, ever. Even when The Shift resulted in a couple of outs, Morgan immediately took to explaining why the out would’ve been made with a traditional defensive set-up. Why are Morgan and McCarver still announcing? Seth, can you start a campaign to get them replaced with color commentators open to ideas that have been conceived in the last 40 years?

]]> by: Jack http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/#comment-30880 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:34:36 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/09/how-to-win-friends-etc-a-review-of-george-vecseys-baseball/#comment-30880 Yes, you are trying to kill your career. Are you crazy? Yes, you are trying to kill your career. Are you crazy?

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