Wednesday Webcast

On tonight's SportstalkNY webcast, our guests include:

Ron Blomberg, former New York Yankee and the MLB's first designated hitter. He has since managed the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox to their first championship in the Israeli Baseball League. His autobiography, Designated Hebrew chronicles his experiences in baseball as well as his experiences fighting anti-Semitism.


Dan Rootenberg, outfielder for the Netanya Tigers and first player to sign a contract with the Israeli Baseball League. He has also developed The Spear Center, a state of the art physical therapy center.


As always, the show will be on at 9 PM; and we take your calls at 631 615 4799.

Wednesday Webcast

The SportstalkNY webcast will be on as normal tonight, at 9 PM.

This week's show we are having a special round-table discussion on steroids in baseball, and among our guests is Don Hooton, founder of the Taylor Hooton Foundation, which combats the growing steroid use in high schools across the US.


On February 13, we are doing a special show on Yankee and Shea Stadiums, so if you have a Stadium story or personal experience you want to share, feel free to email a video clip to us at Sportstalkny1@aol.com

Some More Blog Notes

Right then...

SportstalkNY is on again tonight, nine PM Eastern, click here to watch and listen live.

Our guests tonight are Ed Willes, author of The Rebel League about the World Hockey Association, and Mark Littell, inventor of the NuttyBuddy, but perhaps more famous for giving up the Chris Chambliss home run in game five of the 1976 ALCS (see last post).

As always, there is a chatroom at the site, and we take calls at 631-615-4799.



I'm off to see Enchanted this afternoon. Hope it's worth my $10.

It's a Small League After All...

Not much new in Yankee land, so some news stories around the league you may have missed...

Dan Haren to 'Zona. The price for Arizona? Most of its present and future farm system. Remember when the Yankees used to think that was a good idea? Yea? Well, I'm glad the Yanks don't any more.

Jim Edmonds to Padres. Remember when this guy was good?


Phillies interested in Mike Cameron Wow, the center field market must be really thin...




SPORTSTALKNY moves back to its regular timeslot this week at 9 PM on Wednesday. Our guests are Ed Willes, author of The Rebel League, and former major league pitcher and coach Mark Littell, also the inventor of the 'nutty buddy'.

Tune in, turn on, have fun.

Shameless Self Promotion, Among Other Things

So I'm not sure who it was that invented the concept of finals, but, oh man, I would so love to give that guy a good thwapping.

Anyway.

The SportstalkNY webcast that I am a part of is slated this week to start Thursday at nine, instead of Wednesday.

Why?

Well, it looks like our host, Mark, has got something awesome up his sleeve, because we've got guests!

> Neil Best from Newsday, and Zack Hample

If you don't know who these guys are, click on the links in the previous paragraph. It's pretty cool stuff.

I've got a final on Thursday from 7-9, so I might be a little late, but at the latest I'll be there by 9.30.

Anyway, on the Yankees' front:

You probably know by now the Yankees signed reliever LaTroy Hawkins to a one year deal; this may be a brilliant move or one of Cashman's worst, and since baseball is so unpredictable, we probably won't know until July or August, but the good news is that he's signed for one year. Thus, if he doesn't pan out in 2008, we have no Farnsworth/Pavano-ian obligation.


Though I have heard rumors of Japanese outfielder Fukudome (no, it's not pronounced like that) being interested in the Yankees, I haven't seen any confirmation. At any rate, the Yankees have a surplus of outfielders for 2008; if we were to sign Fukudome, it'd mean that we'd have one of Damon/Melky rotting in the bench. I could see us going after him if we had traded Melky, but we haven't (yet), so don't look for any new Japanese imports. At least, not in center field.



I wrote 6600 words on The Season over the weekend (which is about ten pages single-spaced or twenty pages doubled), which makes it one of the most successful weekends I've had. I look forward to sharing it with all of you...:-D

A Quickie

1) My thesis proposal has been accepted, which of course means now I have to write the whole thing.

2) Webcast at SportstalkNY at 9 PM. If you're around, you should certainly tune in, unless, of course, you can't stand my voice. There will also be reports on the Rangers, Giants, Mets, Nets and Jets.

3) It's unlikely I'll be able to get to the NHL/NBA roundup tonight (the end of the semester does this to people), but I'll try. If not, look for it tomorrow.