Goodbye Gears

Don’t you just hate it when it costs the same to fix your bike as it would your car (your hypothetical car, that is)? Yeah me, too. But on the bright side- my… Read More →

Welcome to ESPN, may I take your order?

On 23 June, Setanta, a popular sports network who owned the rights to most American sports here in the UK, not to mention several Premiership games, went into administration.  As a result, all… Read More →

Great Weekends (Oh I’m back to writing this thing)

Having just come back from some great family holidays, I’ve spent the last (first) weekend in London having a very good, very relaxing time.  Now I know I haven’t been very good about… Read More →

In The Miso Soup

Last week, whilst browsing my favorite multi-media store Fopp in Covent Garden, I came upon an author I had heard of but not read – Ryu Murakami, I had heard he was a… Read More →

Shea Stadium; The End of an Era

In 1957 New York City had one American League and two National League baseball teams, but at the close of the season, both the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants  left for… Read More →

Yankee Stadium: 1923 – 2008.

Both New York baseball teams will be playing in brand-new stadiums next season, and with the end of this season will come the bull-dozing of two historical stadiums, Shea Stadium, home of the… Read More →

Baseball in the UK

Why was I not informed about this? Apparently there’s a youth baseball, an adult fast and slow pitch softball, and an adult baseball league, all right here in London (and elsewhere around the… Read More →

Peanuts AND Cracker-Jacks

After checking the Mets online, it occurred to me that the Mets-Phillies game might just be important enough to be the channel 5 game tonight, so after a quick check online, I found,… Read More →

5 Cool Boards for the Fall

As with everyday, I was busy for part of the week looking at cool things on the internet that a) I can’t afford to buy and b) I’m not really cool enough to… Read More →