http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:13:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Headline on GQ's May 2008 profile of Robert Downey Jr: The Man in the Irony Mask Headline on my profile of Stephen Colbert, which ran in the October 2007 issue of Vanity Fair: The Man in the Irony Mask (The GQ story, incidentally, is by Matthew Klam, one of my favorite writers and the ... http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-word-of-the-day-originaliness/ Pedro is undoubtedly one of the best pitchers never to throw a no-hitter or a complete game. The story of his 9 perfect innings with the Expos is well-known (he gave up a double to lead off the tenth of the 0-0 game). I didn't realize that two other near-perfect ... http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2008/04/04/more-pedro-ephemera-perfection-and-the-hand-hunter/ Not surprisingly, I've gotten lots of emails about the news that Murray Chass might have been nudged out the door at the Times. This would undoubtedly be a good thing for the sportswriting profession, as well as for anyone who regularly reads the Times' sports section. (Just last week I ... http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2008/04/04/we-wont-have-murray-chass-to-kick-around-anymore-maybe/ I've had a long, and somewhat complicated history with Pedro. Some of my most joyous baseball memories are the result of his brilliance. (I've already gone on too many times about his 17-K performance at Yankee Stadium in September 99...the game that got me escorted out of the ballpark for ... http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2008/04/03/pedro-you-break-my-heart/ Yes, it's baseball season again. That will, of course, result in more frequent hardball-related posts than I've been managing as of late. I'm also going to start an experiment -- a semi-regular (and mostly random) collection of other interesting ephemera. This will, at the very least, highlight my oftentimes unhealthy ... http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2008/04/03/you-blinded-me-with-science/ Lord knows Boston sports fans have plenty of options when it comes to reading about Ye Olde Towne Team -- I'd bet there's more available information floating out there than about any other professional team in history. Much of the time, this means there's a lot of redundant stories out ... http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2008/03/30/required-reading-u-l-series-on-sox-farm-system/ I haven't been able to come up with words that adequately describe my amazement at this -- the first ever demonstration of a voiceless cell phone call. Seriously -- this is not a joke. As Netscape founder Marc Andreessen put it, "my brain just exploded." http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2008/03/27/breaking-news-pitchers-will-never-again-need-to-cover-their-mouths-with-their-mitts/