Darryl Tahirali
What's Wrong with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Jul 13, 2017
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DDT's Pop Flies
Before indulging in that ever-popular blood sport of listing all the reasons why the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sucks, let's list all the reasons why it doesn't:
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Remembering Chuck Berry
Mar 20, 2017
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DDT's Pop Flies
This was a day that I dreaded to see, even though I knew it was inevitable.
Standing in the checkout line at Trader Joe's, I looked at the BBC News website on my phone to see what was happening in the world. The inevitable had happened.
"How you doin' today?" the young woman asked as she pulled in my cart.
Standing in the checkout line at Trader Joe's, I looked at the BBC News website on my phone to see what was happening in the world. The inevitable had happened.
"How you doin' today?" the young woman asked as she pulled in my cart.
EVALUATING BASEBALL'S 2017 TODAY'S GAME ERA COMMITTEE BALLOT
Dec 02, 2016
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With the second revamping of its veterans committee structure in the last six years, the Baseball Hall of Fame seems ready to address the twin challenges of the logjam on the writers' ballot and of an evaluation process that until now has given scant attention to candidates from the last few decades of the game.
Is Ichiro Suzuki the Real Mr. 3000?
Jan 26, 2016
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On October 6, 2015, the Miami Marlins reported that they had re-signed Ichiro Suzuki to a one-year, $2 million contract for the 2016 season. The 41-year-old outfielder, the most successful Japanese player in Major League Baseball history, is just 65 hits shy of the vaunted 3000-hit plateau, a baseball hallmark that generally results in a Baseball Hall of Fame induction for those hitters who have reached it unless you've run afoul of baseball's proscriptions against gambling (see: Rose, Pete) or performance-enhancing drugs (see: Palmeiro, Rafael).