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MLB used to do it, I don't know why they stopped. Probably because there wasn't an interest in it?

At any rate, hopefully I'll be able to purchase some of these baseball related box sets that I hear so much about...

On another note - all this talk of Eli finally getting it together and this is why you don't judge a young quarterback too early, etc, etc - made me think of some of the young(ish) Yankee pitchers and perhaps young pitchers in general. When do you know someone sucks? Do we know for sure Igawa, for example, sucks?

I'm not sure what Igawa's early career projections were, but Cashman wasn't expecting him to be more than a middle rotation pitcher in the AL. Igawa probably doesn't suck, but he's probably not much better than mediocre. Nobody's expecting him to lead his team to a championship. It was Eli's job description.

Your point about people expecting too much too soon from athletes in general is still a good one.

offtopic - how long until Giselle dumps Tom Brady and starts dating, you know, a winner?

Offtopic - To be fair to Brady, he hasn't won a Super Bowl since before he and Giselle were an item, so I don't think he'll be dumped anytime soon.

And there are some Pats cheerleaders who might give Giselle a run in the looks department, so I think he'd be OK even if she moved on.

and yeah, no shortage of all sorts of love for Brady. A few women I work with think he's slumming it with Giselle and could do better. Imagine that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/sports/baseball/09larsen.html

Problem is that the NBC video is owned by a collector and rarely seen. MLB tried to buy one of the amateur videos last summer but apparently didn't offer enough. The article doesn't say what the story is on the other guy's video.

The Specter thing is worse than it looks on its face, too. Specter's #2 leading campaign contributor is Comcast. And his #1 contributor is a PAC set up by a law firm that represents Comcast. To my mind, that changes the story from absurd to disgusting. On the bright side, this info is now in Specter's Wikipedia entry, so maybe he'll experience some fallout.

Oh, and Brady: the guy did march his team down the field for the go-ahead touchdown with 2:40 to play. I don't think his rep is much tarnished by this loss, even though he might take it harder than anybody. He's Jeteresque, if I may dare to say so here...

The battle for the 13th player spot is shaping up to be an interesting one. Assuming that Duncan is the 12th man, the Yankees are looking at Ensberg, Jason Lane, Chris Woodward, and now possibly Mench for that 13th spot. Like Ensberg, Mench has a history of hitting left-handers. My preference would be 1) Ensberg 2) Mench 3) Woodward and 4) Lane. If any of frontline players gets hurt (why am I thinking of Giambi?), they could then carry two of those players.

Native Tongues FTW!

I love Yankeeographies by the way. I also love that the Yankee Classics only exhibit games in which the Bronx Bombers reign supreme. I've never quite gotten the criticism of that policy. Why on earth would a network that caters to Yankee fans air a game in which the Yankees lose? Is the point to have your entire audience turn off their sets all at once?

I'm just hoping McNamee doesn't show up with a cigar.

Yes, the stakes are now very large, same as for Barry and for Tejada. The stained dress line is painfully funny, william.

It seems, Roger is relying on a stand-off with McNamee and Pettitte having nothing but hearsay to offer on Roger's possible drug use (which is likely). There will be no cancelled cheques here, we can be pretty sure of it, simply because if there HAD been, the strategy would HAVE to be different.

The x-factor may be 'correctness', the optics if the justice system goes after a black star and a Latino star for perjury and backs off the white star... this, of course, should be utterly and massively beside the point, but we live in the world we live in.

Speaking of the '01 Serious . . . the dazed feeling of shock - still present now 3 days later - that I've seen on so many Pats fans reminds me of how I felt after Game 7 in 2001. That the events that caused that shock, in both cases, occurred late on a Sunday night in Arizona, is a little too eerily similar for me.

34 The only criticism I have is that I wish they had more variety. Of course, I don't know who has the rights to the games, so that could be the issue.

Also, while Jeter has Arod as his more stats/no rings rival, Brady lost his when Peyton Manning won Super Bowl XLI.

I have a pretty extensive collection of Classic Games, so what I would love to see are replays of more mundane games. A random regular season tilt with Scooter and Bill White behind the mike, for example, would be a very nice treat.

I wouldn't mind seeing games like Tartabull's 9 RBI game, or Niekro's 300th win, for instance.