Afternoon Baseball

Common-sense ruminations on baseball and culture.


These include:

Why we can make incredible computers on the head of a pin, and turn almost anything into a fuel resource, and we can clone animals, yet AA batteries don't improve while technology sucks more power from them.

Why casting directors think Lindsay Lohan will make a movie better by her addiction-fueled presence.

How ABC thought "Cavemen" wasn't going to be terrible. I mean, you don't have half-hour commercials for a reason. It's like two-hour movies based on one halfway funny joke that sets up the film in the first 90 seconds. And this happens all the time.

Why Tiny Fey keeps getting better-looking. I'm not surprised, however, that that link shows Conan O'Brien looks just like a "Mary Poppins" girl.

How Tim McCarver has a job on TV.

But mostly, why the Yankees are taking so long to decide on Torre. It's not fair to the organization, the coaches, the players, the fans or Torre. It's also going to hinder relations with pending free agents, whether they be in-house or elsewhere, as well as put more of a spotlight (or bulls-eye, if you choose) on the next manager.

It'd be one thing if the delay, or the interminable negotiations, were of a contract matter. By this I mean talks with Torre on a new deal or Mattingly, et al, to fill the position. But this is merely the talks before the talks.
While one can understand the hesitancy of the younger Steinbrenners and the other Yankee execs to rush the first post-George decision, looking lost won't comfort anyone. Nor will it improve upon the bottom-line, if not entirely fair, blame on Torre for not delivering a champion since 2000.

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