Comments for Diamonds and Gridirons http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com Mitchell Plitnick's sports blog Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:07:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 Comment on About by bibomedia http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/about/#comment-9 bibomedia Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:45:17 +0000 #comment-9 :) :)

]]> Comment on A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s by Baseball » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-6 Baseball » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:09:40 +0000 http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-6 [...] Mitchell Plitnick wrote an interesting post today on A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’sHere’s a quick excerptAgain, that is an eminently affordable contract, even for the A’s (who, incidentally, are now in baseball’s lower-middle-class in any case). What Beane recognized was that he had a choice—be a decent team for the next few years and … [...] [...] Mitchell Plitnick wrote an interesting post today on A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’sHere’s a quick excerptAgain, that is an eminently affordable contract, even for the A’s (who, incidentally, are now in baseball’s lower-middle-class in any case). What Beane recognized was that he had a choice—be a decent team for the next few years and … [...]

]]> Comment on A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s by Dog Training » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-5 Dog Training » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:07:16 +0000 http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-5 [...] The Scream wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAs the Hot Stove League season winds down and gives way to the annual rebirth that is spring training, writers start to assess who the winners and losers were in t he off-season. … Teams have down years where the injury bug and a few problems dog them down. But this team had no future…. [...] [...] The Scream wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAs the Hot Stove League season winds down and gives way to the annual rebirth that is spring training, writers start to assess who the winners and losers were in t he off-season. … Teams have down years where the injury bug and a few problems dog them down. But this team had no future…. [...]

]]> Comment on A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s by baseball » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-3 baseball » A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:18:21 +0000 http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-surprising-winner-this-off-season-the-oakland-as/#comment-3 [...] Mitchell Plitnick wrote a fantastic post today on “A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s”Here’s ONLY a quick extractThat team is the Oakland Athletics. But wait, you say, the A’s traded their best pitcher and their best position player for a bunch of guys we’ve never heard of. How can that be a win for the A’s? It can be and it was, but to understand … [...] [...] Mitchell Plitnick wrote a fantastic post today on “A Surprising Winner This Off-Season: The Oakland A’s”Here’s ONLY a quick extractThat team is the Oakland Athletics. But wait, you say, the A’s traded their best pitcher and their best position player for a bunch of guys we’ve never heard of. How can that be a win for the A’s? It can be and it was, but to understand … [...]

]]> Comment on About by Tony Tothe http://diamondsandgridirons.wordpress.com/about/#comment-2 Tony Tothe Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:06:25 +0000 #comment-2 Hello Mitchell, Glad to see you now have a sports blog....Not too many leftists seem to enjoy sports like we do...As you know I love baseball but my first love is hockey....I've played my whole life...I am not much of a football fan but I was sure glad to see the Giants beat the 18 and No!!-Pats..It was a great game..The Giants played three of the bests games I can remember...I didn't think anything could top the Packer game and then came the Super Bowl which was incredible....I agree 100% with your Clemens post especially the part about the idiots in Washington not having anything else to do with their time...Anyway look forward to your comments...I know they will be as penetrating and as insightful as your political commentary....Do your read Dave Zirin's stuff? He is quite good. All the best.-Tony Hello Mitchell,

Glad to see you now have a sports blog….Not too many leftists seem to enjoy sports like we do…As you know I love baseball but my first love is hockey….I’ve played my whole life…I am not much of a football fan but I was sure glad to see the Giants beat the 18 and No!!-Pats..It was a great game..The Giants played three of the bests games I can remember…I didn’t think anything could top the Packer game and then came the Super Bowl which was incredible….I agree 100% with your Clemens post especially the part about the idiots in Washington not having anything else to do with their time…Anyway look forward to your comments…I know they will be as penetrating and as insightful as your political commentary….Do your read Dave Zirin’s stuff? He is quite good. All the best.-Tony

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