My motivation in starting this list was to have some kind of sampling on the sidebar. My motivation in finishing it is having Catfish Stew mentioned in this week’s Sports Illustrated. So if you’re coming here from there, read a sampling below, and then vote for us.
Note: This is just a list my own writing that I’m happy with. Philip and Ryan can make their own doggone lists. Call me selfish if you like. ;P The list is below the fold…
The Fold
The List:
Things Are Looking Up, 28 Aug 2003
Vlad the Insaner, 12 Jan 2004
Blog the Dawgs, 31 May 2005
The Evil Midnight Blogger What Blogs At Midnight, 11 May 2005
Villains Foiled Again, 29 June 2005
Hardscrabble, 8 June 2005
Document 213543: Mission Failure Report, 19 July 2005
Kid Kendall, 11 August 2005
The Athletics Zone, 7 September 2005
One And A Half Is…, 20 September 2005
Ah, That Day, 22 September 2005
Hope, Released, 26 September 2005
Gallery of Elimination, 28 September 2005
Parting, 29 September 2005
Remembering Bill King, 18 October 2005
On Bartolo Colon’s Cy Young, 9 November 2005
And Gets Out Laughing, 15 November 2005
AI on Zito, 20 November 2005
An Ace of Spades, 13 December 2005
Baseball in the Vanilla Sky, 19 January 2006
Fan Fest: Three Things Learned, 28 January 2006
Must. Bat. Kendall. Ninth., 21 February 2006
Death and Parataxis, 10 April 2006
The Curse of the Bobblehead, 16 April 2006
A Picture Worth A Thousand Words, 22 April 2006
Ken’s Adventures in Weirderland, 7 May 2006
A Good Haymaker, 25 May 2006
Intersections, 31 May 2006
Matt Kemp’s Magic Floating Helmet and Other Assorted Images, 18 June 2006
25 Least Favorite Oakland Athletics, 22 June 2006
This Is A Tank-Free Zone, 6 July 2006
From Fjords To Fenway, 17 July 2006
Is It Real or Is It Photoshop?, 13 August 2006
Eskimo Ballplayers Have 108 Words For Slump, 15 August 2006
Ask Dr. Catfish Stew, World-Famous Man of Science, 16 August 2006
King Of Pain In The Groin, 20 August 2006
Bookends, 11 October 2006
Another Long, Rambling Post That Starts Out Nowhere Near Where It Finally Ends Up (The A’s Dugout), 31 October 2006
Zito Thoughts:
Part 1, 29 December 2006
Part 2, 4 January 2006
Part 3, 12 January 2006
I Am Holding Bobby Kielty Prisoner, 27 January 2007
Ex-Athletics Report: Zito’s New Delivery, 17 February 2007
1. The Zito triptych was great. That changed a lot of what I perceived about the guy. Put that in, definitely.
2. My favorite is "Ah, that Day". It had never occurred to me before I read that one that a baseball blog could actually be scary.
3. Personally, my favourite was The Evil Blogger What Blogs at Midnight. That was when I realized that it could be fun to read blogs about teams that I don't normally follow.
The bit about Rickey Henderson as a Surf Dawg was great, too.
4. the link to King Of Pain In the Groin (one of my favorites) isn't working.
5. 4 Thanks, should be fixed now. I left off the "h" in "http".
6. Perfect. But may I be permitted to opine, you should have included the Return of Scott Brosius and other unsolved mysteries to your Best Of list.
7. my favorite, hands down, is "death and parataxis". i think that's ken's magnum opus.