Monthly Archives: March 2003

Play Ball!

Posted on March 30, 2003 by

Here are my final predictions for the 2003 season, which begins today (HUZZA!)

NL West

  1. San Francisco Giants
  2. Arizona Diamondbacks
  3. Los Angeles Dodgers
  4. San Diego Padres
  5. Colorado Rockies

NL Central

  1. St. Louis Cardinals
  2. Cincinnati Reds
  3. Houston Astros
  4. Chicago Cubs
  5. Pittsburgh Pirates
  6. Milwaukee Brewers

NL East

  1. Atlanta Braves
  2. Montreal Expos
  3. Philadelphia Phillies
  4. Florida Marlins
  5. New York Mets

AL West

  1. Oakland Athletics
  2. Anaheim Angels
  3. Texas Rangers
  4. Seattle Mariners

AL Central

  1. Minnesota Twins
  2. Chicago White Sox
  3. Detroit Tigers
  4. Cleveland Indians
  5. Kansas City Royals

AL East

  1. New York Yankees
  2. Boston Red Sox
  3. Toronto Blue Jays
  4. Baltimore Orioles
  5. Tampa Bay Devil Rays

NL Champs: St. Louis Cardinals
AL Champs: Oakland A’s

World Champs: St. Louis Cardinals

NL MVP: Albert Pujols, St. Louis
NL Cy Young: Roy Oswalt, Houston
NL Rookie: Xavier Nady, San Diego
Comback: Ken Griffey, Jr., Cincinnati

AL MVP: Alfonso Soriano, New York
AL Cy Young: Mark Muldar, Oakland
AL Rookie: Hideki Matsui, New York
Comeback: Frank Thomas, Chicago Continue reading →

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Cathy’s world …

Posted on March 28, 2003 by

Matt Welch gets his way, and Cathy “I’ll never have a blog” Seipp has a blog. Continue reading →

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A victory for howardowens.com

Posted on March 26, 2003 by

 Gushing Chung canned. Continue reading →

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Ventura blogger, sort of

Posted on March 22, 2003 by

It looks like howardowens.com has picked up a new reader … Robin Roberts notes that he was born in Ventura County.  Want to know if that counts. For something.

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CNN

Posted on March 22, 2003 by

cnn baghdadOops. Looks like who ever is in charge of putting CNN’s promotional ads on its website isn’t keeping up with the news.
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Sophomoric

Posted on March 21, 2003 by

This is funny … a little fisking of my war blog:

Hometown paper the Ventura County Star is mysteriously getting a lot of MSNBC attention for its sophomoric weblog, which considers Fox News the greatest source of war info. It thinks it’s cool because it uses warblogger words, like “fisking.”
Let’s see, I’ve never heard of this guy … but I have heard of Jeff Jarvis. Continue reading →

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Car chase in LA

Posted on March 21, 2003 by

Bombing of Baghdad … and pursuitwatch.com calls me and notifies me of a police pursuit in LA.  Is there really an LA teevee station showing a car chase instead of the war? Continue reading →

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The war blogs

Posted on March 20, 2003 by

High praise from Jeff Jarvis, which I appreciate.

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Here’s Connie

Posted on March 19, 2003 by

When the deadline passes and war is about to start, you want your most serious journalist on the air, right? So, of course, Gushing Connie is on CNN right now. Continue reading →

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War blogging

Posted on March 18, 2003 by

I’ve created a war blog for InsideVC.com

Does that make me a paid, professional blogger? Continue reading →

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