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More baseball players who look like musicians
By Ted Berg - Oct 22, 2009 3:54 pm

In the comments for the last post, Chris pointed out a good one that I overlooked. Here’s Metallica’s James Hetfield and Mark McGwire:

And one my father pointed out a really long time ago, which is actually an amazing call. Here are John Kruk and Meat Loaf, and I’m pretty certain they’re the same person:

Baseball players who look like musicians
By Ted Berg - Oct 22, 2009 2:40 pm

Mike Cameron’s name has, for whatever reason, popped up as a candidate for the Mets’ open left field slot for next season.
I don’t think it should happen and I don’t think it will, but the rumors have reopened debate amongst my friends over whether Mike Cameron looks just like Seal. You be the judge:

There’s a [...]

Ken Davidoff, we hardly knew ye
By Ted Berg - Oct 22, 2009 12:00 pm

According to press release from Newsday, Newsday is pioneering a new web model which involves charging money for Newsday.
According to me, Newsday is pioneering its way into new realms of dumb.
Here I thought the black background with white font was a bad idea.
I grew up on Long Island and my family subscribed to Newsday. Whenever [...]

Commenting on commenting
By Ted Berg - Oct 22, 2009 11:08 am

As you may have noticed, it was impossible to comment on this here blog over the last two days. I didn’t notice this, and I was pretty baffled since I was having some of my best traffic days and no one was commenting on anything.
I thought maybe, for no apparent reason, everybody just ran out [...]

Items of note
By Ted Berg - Oct 22, 2009 9:58 am

Paul at Section Five Twenty-Eight returns with more John Olerud facts. My favorite: John Olerud avoids using the word “moist,” because it sounds so inappropriate.
Tim McLelland is sorry. In the words of Eric Gordon, “Sorry doesn’t put the Triscuit crackers in my stomach.” Also, one thing we’re all missing in this is that Tim McLelland [...]