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Helping Women Understand Baseball

Posted May 1 at 10:54 am by Mike Seely

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A pair of Seattle authors, Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney, are aspiring to do just that, with the release of this book. Ladies, there are only two ways to third base with a real man: balls and....balls. (Bah-dump-bump!)

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Costas' Deadspin Debate

Posted April 30 at 3:17 pm by Mike Seely

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Both Deadspin founder Will Leitch and "Friday Night Lights" author Buzz Bissinger make some very good points in this Costas segment on the impact of blogs on sports media. And I love Deadspin and a lot of armchair quarterback sports blogs (basketbawful being my fave), just as I love "Friday Night Lights." But you know what I don't love? Bissinger's condescending, dad-knows-best tone in this segment. He comes off like an absolute fucking prick (plus, to write what Deadspin might write, he looks like Travolta's character from "Battlefield Earth"). And what's Bissinger done that's been worth a damn since "Friday Night Lights," anyway? He got unfiltered access for "Prayer for the City" and "3 Nights in August," and those books were both shit. Why? Because he got way too cozy with his subjects (especially LaRussa, who essentially co-authored the Cardinal tome), which is exactly Leitch's point when he criticizes the sort of access the Bissingers of the world get as a double-edged sword. There's a happy medium here, fellas, but Bissinger certainly doesn't achieve it, whereas Leitch cops to not even trying — a far more noble place to be, in my opinion.

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