Jay Fitzgerald makes some excellent points about ‘knight of the keyboard’ Dan Shaughnessy’s recent coverage of the ALCS for the New York Times….

Here are the stakes, as New York Times writer Harvey Araton sees it: “Fear is not something Steinbrenner hides well. You can smell it on him all the way from Tampa. His Yankees have not won the World Series since 2000, not a very good advertising campaign for his cable network, which is dedicated to… Continue reading

Read this for a sample of some of the bitterness hanging over the San Francisco Bay area after this past weekend of baseball.

On the other hand, Allen Barra at Slate (of all mags) defends Rush.

I like Rush Limbaugh on the whole, but Robert George at NRO is right when he chides the radio talk-show master for his unfortunate comments on ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” over the weekend: “I’m not feeling sorry for Rush today (the drug story aside, which seems like a cheap shot). He did what we hate… Continue reading