The Poscast With Michael Schur
Here are a few posts that may be coming. Then again ...
-- A breakdown, 1-to-30, of the best hitting parks in baseball (or 30-1 of the best pitching parks in baseball).
-- The iPad Review (really*).
-- More thoughts about rooting against LeBron
-- The 32 most fun people to watch in sports
-- Watching a single tennis match from Paris
-- My off-again love affair with the movies
-- Why I'm going to start playing golf
-- Thoughts on the Negro Leagues Museum
*I'm going to make a deal with you, the reader. Sports Illustrated has just made the extremely exciting announcement that the SI iPad app is now free for subscribers. Absolutely free. All you have to do is sign up for SI Everywhere. You don't even need an iPad to sign up -- you can read the magazine on your computer or on other devices. So, sign up. I have a number in mind. If that number of people sign up for the iPad app, I actually will write the iPad review.
I'm not saying that this will make the deal any more appealing, but I can tell you that plans are in the works for a new version of the SI app, one where this blog will be featuring prominently.
Also, I may have mentioned this: It's free.
The Poscast this week is the third one with Parks and Recreation Executive Producer Michael Schur (aliases Ken Tremendous, Mose, Agent Falcon). We discuss the awesomeness of Adrian Gonzalez, the sudden relevance of the Royals, the Pujols contract situation, the seeming and crushing inevitability of the Miami Heat victory over the Bulls along with various other things.
Mostly though, we have our second draft. Our last draft, you almost certainly do not remember, was over our five favorite baseball books. This draft is of the five athletes we would like to invite over for dinner. Well, I understood it to be five athletes. He understood it to be five baseball players. This led to much confusion and the bewildered broadcasting by the host, which has become a hallmark of the Poscast.
I will tell you that Michael goes off the board with his fourth pick and takes us into dangerous political territory. But with my deft skills as a broadcaster, I managed to make matters worse. So, tune in!
-- The 32 most fun people to watch in sports
ReplyDeletePretty please
I'm a big fan of some SI online properties (yourself, Dan Patrick, golf.com) but I don't own a mobile phone so why would I need to sign up for an ap?
ReplyDeleteAdmit it, you already have the iPad review written and you're just messing with us.
ReplyDeletealraedy have ipad app. glad SI finally decided to make it free for subscribers.
ReplyDeleteI really want to hear more about why you root against LeBron. Guy was a free-agent who decided to change locations, yet most of the sports media killed him for this. Makes no sense..no one forced you to watch "The Decision", or attend the absurd party the Heat had. I will never, ever get the LeBron hatred..
ReplyDeleteCan't buy an iPad until I get the definitive review.
ReplyDeleteThis may violate posting etiquete, but the other day we had probably a too spirited discussion about Carlos Beltran, with me saying he was overrated and his reputation would forever be scarred by THE STRIKEOUT. Several Met fans strongly disagreed and Joe, as he has for the past ten years, started it with a pretty fawning post on Beltran.
ReplyDeleteWell, the Mets owner Fred Wilpon has now weighed in. I realize Fred has how own problems, but he Met fans were arguing that the Beltran contact was a good one, so I thought even at this late point I should add what the guy who paid the money under the contract thinks about it:
STORY:
Beltran also is an impending free agent and a likely candidate to be shipped out by July's trade deadline. Wilpon criticized himself for agreeing to give the center fielder a seven-year, $119 million contract after he hit .435 with eight home runs in the 2004 postseason for the Astros, who lost in the NLCS to the Cardinals.
"We had some schmuck in New York who paid him based on that one series," Wilpon said, referring to his idea to sign Beltran, who has been slowed by knee injuries but has played better than expected as a right fielder this season. "He’s 65 to 70 percent of what he was."
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/metsblog/mets_owner_rips_reyes_beltran_and_Srdv3R9rfF8zRONGq7mz8J#ixzz1NEUOyiGG
This is it! The iPad review is coming! People said it wouldn't but I always believed. Finally, I will know whether or not I should get one.
ReplyDeleteMost people are going way overboard on the Yankees demise. A-Rod's WAR is 1.7 in 42 games, he's missed all of 4 games - that's probably about 6.5 WAR for the year. I would take that, even if you are knocking off a good percentage a year over the course of his contract, he will have value. Not Longoria value, but it's on a par with Youkilis for instance. The real issue is the availability of top starters, and what to do when Rivera is gone or ineffective - that was the biggest edge they had, turning a playoff game into an 7 inning affair many times.
ReplyDeleteA-Rod was vilified for opting out during the World Series and the Yankees totally backed down and gave him way too much after saying they wouldn't budge. It will certainly inform CC that he should opt out and get more from NY.
Does Montreal care as much about baseball as Los Angeles cares about football? I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteThe A-Rod contact extension was mystifying. It seemed like he had made a mistake and had little leverage, but he got a great dea. Any explanation for that?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have the subscription and use their IPhone to read the magazine? The link Joe provided provides an impressive list of smartphones which work, but the IPhone is not listed as one of them.
ReplyDeleteKC: The simple explanation is that Fred Wilpon is a dope. He called out Reyes, mocked and denigrated Beltran, did the same to Wright, and said the team is "sh***y".
ReplyDeleteAny owner with a brain who isn't a Steinbrenner knows that it's sheer lunacy to insult your team like that in public. The Mets have had attendance issues recently, and here's the owner mocking the team and saying the team sucks. Is that supposed to drive more people to the ballpark?
Calling out Reyes and Beltran is misplaced anger (they're playing wonderfully so far this year and are hardly the Mets' biggest problem) and incredibly illogical. Since the Mets will undoubtedly trade Beltran and may trade Reyes, why on earth would their employer publicly downgrade their performances? That's detrimental to their trade value! It makes it sound like Wilpon would be happy to get *anything* for either of them, which again, isn't a good sign to fans.
And to mock Wright and call the team "sh***y"? Is this the minor leagues? You can't keep this stuff in-house? And also, despite the injuries and missing their ace Johan, the Mets are essentially a .500 team right now.
People all over the media are ripping on Wilpon for this idiocy, even the NY Post and, of all people, Mike Francesa, which is ironic considering the Wilpon's comments sound like a WFAN caller's.
What Fred Wilpon thinks of the Beltran contract now is irrelevant to what Beltran has actually been worth. Personally, I cannot wait until Wilpon sells the 49% of the team he's trying to sell. Hopefully, he'll dump the other 51%, too.
The greatest sportswriter of my generation and an extremely funny comedy screenwriter with a magical gift for sports meta-analysis get together for a third time. Not to write. But rather to talk.
ReplyDeleteF*** the heck?!?!
You guys do see the irony of that, right?
ReplyDeleteThis poscast was the best yet. Joe and Michael really have a great rhythm.
ReplyDeleteI will install the SI iPad app by close of business today.
I have picked up a subscription despite the lack of IPhone compatability. Hoping for the IPad review soonish.
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