Over the last month, “The Last Dance” has become that rare and curious oddity: a piece of sports mythmaking that hops over the barriers around the sporting world and becomes a greater piece of cultural shorthand. It’s an impeccably organized look into a superstar, a franchise, and the series of steps that transformed a solidly popular American sports league into a global entertainment powerhouse.
But every phenomenon has a complement. In this case, it comes in the form of the latest miniseries of “Dorktown,” an ongoing video collection from SBNation multimedia stalwarts Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein. Thursday marked the finale of a six-chapter opus on the history of the Seattle Mariners, a baseball team that “Dorktown” argues has become a kind of an organizational Zelig in its 43-year history, present for the ascension of some of the game’s landmark figures and trends over that span.
These episodes...
But every phenomenon has a complement. In this case, it comes in the form of the latest miniseries of “Dorktown,” an ongoing video collection from SBNation multimedia stalwarts Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein. Thursday marked the finale of a six-chapter opus on the history of the Seattle Mariners, a baseball team that “Dorktown” argues has become a kind of an organizational Zelig in its 43-year history, present for the ascension of some of the game’s landmark figures and trends over that span.
These episodes...
- 5/15/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule. Ever since I came up with the quizzical, whimsical (quizzimsical?) name for my blog way back in 2004, I’ve been asked how I settled on such an odd one. The answer is fairly simple: as originally envisioned, I supposed that I would split blog time between writing about movies and writing about baseball, therefore I wanted something that would effectively, fancifully evoke both worlds. But it wasn’t long before I realized that I was a much better baseball fan than I was a literary observer or analyst of the sport, and soon I stopped writing much about the game at all. Yet the name remained—it had become ingrained, and I liked it, yet I felt new readers might now find it puzzling, and for a while I flirted with the idea of changing it. Thankfully, one of those early readers of...
- 8/20/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
1:58 Pm Pt -- The Dodgers just released a statement, claiming Lasorda was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, where doctors inserted a stent to correct a blocked artery in Lasorda’s heart. He is resting comfortably and in stable condition.Lasorda said, “The doctors confirmed I do bleed Dodger Blue."Baseball legend Tommy Lasorda is currently in a New York hospital after suffering a heart attack Monday, TMZ has learned.84-year-old...
- 6/5/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
George Steinbrenner, whose New York Yankees won 11 American League pennants and seven world championships under his frequently controversial ownership, died of a massive heart attack Tuesday morning in Tampa, Florida. He had turned 80 on the 4th of July, but has been in failing health the past few years after suffering a series of strokes. Called "The Boss," the imposing figure was that and more - bullying (especially his managers and general managers), bombastic but, like the team he and 15 limited partners bought for $8.8 million from CBS in 1973, generally victorious. He even entered the pop-cultural landscape, being portrayed on Seinfeld as...
- 7/13/2010
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville may have won the Stanley Cup ... but looks like his friends had bowls -- not cups -- on their minds. After the 'hawks won the Cup Wednesday -- for the first time in 49 years -- some fans celebrated with a good ole fashioned tp party at coach's house. TMZ Sports got these pics of Quenneville on clean-up duty. We're told all and all he was a good sport. Lou Piniella...
- 6/11/2010
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
NEW YORK -- Fox Sports fired baseball analyst Steve Lyons, hours after he made ethnically inappropriate comments on the air during the Detroit Tigers-Oakland A's championship game Friday. Lyons is a former baseball player who has been working for Fox Sports since 1996. He also is an analyst for the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcasts. Lyons ran afoul of Fox Sports for comments he made during the game after analyst and former manager Lou Piniella said expecting a player to repeat his performance was like "finding a wallet on a Friday night and looking for one on Sunday and Monday, too." A little while later, Piniella said Oakland A's infielder Marco Scutaro was "en fuego," to which Lyons responded: "Lou's hablaing some espanol there, and I'm still looking for my wallet. I don't understand him, and I don't want to sit close to him now."...
- 10/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - 20th Century Fox Check out the teaser here “Kill the Jew!”... I mean “Jagshemash!” As soon as the music started for this trailer I thought the Russians were invading my head and that it was all over. Thank God I was only drunk. For those who’ve been surfing the internet or watching TV with the sound off and their eyes closed and a pencil up where the sun don’t shine, Borat is one of many characters created by multi-talented comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, an anti-Semitic and misogynistic journalist on a quest to better his homeland of Kazakhstan by traveling to “the Us and A to learn a lessons for Kazakhstan.” If this is half as good as his купальный костюм is form-fitting, we’re in for a doozy of a ride. A face only a prostitute sister could love.
- 8/16/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Famed Yankees outfielder and World Series-winning manager Lou Piniella will join the Fox Sports baseball broadcast booth this month. Meanwhile, his boss, Fox Sports president Ed Goren, said Fox and Major League Baseball were still talking about renewing its deal that includes regular-season baseball, the All-Star Game, the league championship series and the World Series. Fox and MLB were believed to be far apart on price, but Goren said Monday that "absolutely" Fox wanted to make a deal. The Fox-MLB deal runs out at the end of the season. Piniella, who has spent more than 40 years in baseball as a player and a manager, made his broadcast TV debut last October with Fox Sports' Joe Buck and Tim McCarver as an analyst. He's signed a deal with Fox that will put him in the broadcast booth alongside Thom Brennaman beginning May 20 with the Chicago White Sox-Chicago Cubs game.
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