Tag Archive for ‘coffee’ rss

Friday Links (16 Apr 10)

by Geoff Young on Apr 16, 2010 (0) Comments

This week’s links are proudly sponsored by coffee. Give yourself a present… Uno Oh, To Be A Padre In August ’80 (Baseball-Reference). Steve Lombardi notes that the Padres played three games of 17 innings or more within a 12-day stretch back in 1980. Yikes. Bill James for Nobel (Sabermetric Research). This article from Phil Birnbaum [...]

Writing the Book (15 Dec 08)

by Geoff Young on Dec 15, 2008 (4) Comments

I’m pressed for time this morning, so we’ll be quick. Work and various other commitments kept me from writing at all during the week, so it was another 20-hour weekend. Really, with enough coffee, almost anything is possible. Oh, and I’m sporting a sweet mullet these days. Think of a cross between Barry Gibb and [...]

You Read It, You Name It

by Geoff Young on Jun 24, 2008 (113) Comments

I enjoyed my day off so much, I believe I’ll take another. The agenda is roughly the same: Drink coffee Play with dogs Watch Stargate SG-1 Play Mob Wars Read Lillian Ross’ Reporting Back (where I learned, among other things, that the great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok once wrote a piece for Benny Goodman; I’ll [...]

Friday Links (28 Sep 07)

by Geoff Young on Sep 28, 2007 (103) Comments

Coffee in the bloodstream, jazz in the ears, baseball on the brain. Let’s get busy… Trade winds blow true (San Diego Union-Tribune). Tom Krasovic tells us what we already know: Kevin Towers is good at that trading thing. Here’s a passage that helps confirm some things we’ve long suspected: Padres statistical analysts deserve credit, Towers [...]