August 2008
19 posts
In this FReedy FRiday Labor Day special, the...
this story weighs in at 1,258 words →
I actually checked. And still they say newspaper journalism is a dying art.
Yup. →
Angry minutes-apart emails of the week
“SUBJECT: Writer feedbacks: Larry Dobrow
FROM: XXX
E-MAIL: XXX
FEEDBACK: YOUR A CLOWN BRO, HAVE YOU EVER EVEN PLAYED HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS. THE INDIANS HAD A DOWN SEASON YEAH, INJURIES TRADES DID PLAY A HUGE PART IN ALL OF THIS. I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THEY ARE PLAYING PRETTY GOOD BALL AS OF LATE!
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Burning question, presented without context
Would Huey Lewis be allowed to play Shinnecock Hills?
I’m going non-com for the weekend, so...
Angry email of the week
Another weak week - homonym! - for hate mail. Like everybody else, the mental patients may be out to pasture until Labor Day.
“SUBJECT: Writer feedbacks: Larry Dobrow
FROM: XXX
E-MAIL: XXX
FEEDBACK: The Indian’s home jerseys are about as bad as your douchebag posts.
I'm calling it
At 9:32 p.m. ET last night, when Johnny Damon backpedaled to the wall uneasily and promptly missed a catchable drive to center, the 2008 Yankee season ended.
Got a call on Saturday morning from Boris...
Bad job, everybody
Meanwhile, this sucks in a large way. My first and most ingrained Mike & the Mad Dog memory is from the day the Yankees traded Rickey Henderson for a pile of squirrel poop. Everybody knew it was a horrid deal - one of the first three-for-one trades in which the sucker team received three shiny quarters in exchange for a dollar bill - but it was avowed Yankee hater Mad Dog who neatly...
During dinner conversation last night about this...
Mid-vacation EXCLUSIVE Uncle Larry content,...
It dawned on me just before how fortunate I am that, as a writer-type person who’s been freelancing for more than five years, I’ve only been screwed over once for work I’ve done. The culprit was a crappy little marketing publication called Ballyhoo that never got off the ground. They owe me $600. They’ll pay, in this life or the next.
Part of my good luck in this regard...
Not entirely angry email of the week
Is this true? Is my name a running joke? That’d actually bum me out.
“SUBJECT: Writer feedbacks: Larry Dobrow
FROM: XXX
E-MAIL: XXX
FEEDBACK: You write great articles and your Uncle Larry piece is no exception. The running joke I have been using for about 10 years now is how televison, especially commercials, always paints loose cannons with the name Larry. My fantasy foootball...
I’ve experienced many a night like the one Freedy...
Why the dickens is The Nation writing about Elvis... →
And why is their comprehensive career-spanning take so much better than the ones recently showcased in actual music publications?
Angry emails of the week, "I am a Larry" edition
“SUBJECT: Writer feedbacks: Larry Dobrow
FROM: XXX
E-MAIL: XXX
FEEDBACK: hey you larry!! thats right you are a larry!! in your rankings you listed the florida marlins and minnesota twins out of the top to and blasted minnesota for signing joe nathan and not developing a 3b. really guy, as player development goes the twins have been near the top of all mlb teams and nathan is a top player....
The dire state of American parenting, baseball...
It’s none of my business what you do with your young children. Dress them in sweater vests, take them to Iron Maiden concerts, raise them as Jet fans - I don’t care. They’re yours. You own them.
But I have to draw the line somewhere. While enjoying my one weekly indulgence just before, I happened upon a father and his two sons, the older of whom was cradling a way-fun baseball...
FReedy FRiday history lesson: Freedy Johnston grew...