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Jeff Fletcher | November 20, 2009
In case anyone out there is still checking my blog, now that the Travelogue is done, how bout a little baseball?
Yeterday’s NL Cy Young voting stirred quite a bit of debate. While I don’t think there was any truly wrong answer (well, Wainwright would have been wrong), I have written a story over at FanHouse about why I would have voted for Carpenter.
Jeff Fletcher | November 6, 2009
It was actually over yesterday. Thanks to the Yankees finishing off the Phillies on Wednesday night, I got on a JetBlue flight on Thursday morning and flew nonstop back to Oakland. Today was the first real day of the offseason, which still figures to be busy because of all the player-movement news I’m going to try to chase, starting with the GM Meetings on Monday in Chicago. (Yes, back on the road, but only a three-day quick trip.)
Anyway, overall I’d say it was a pretty cool experience to go running around covering the playoffs for a month. It’s funny, because when it was over I looked back at some of the early parts, like that Dodgers-Cardinals series, and it seems like it was months ago.
Jeff Fletcher | November 4, 2009
This morning I decided to take a little walk from my hotel over to Central Park, which is about five blocks, and then eventually find someplace to have a late breakfast. What happened is another example of my eating disorder. We’ll get back to that, though.
First, although I didn’t feel like going anywhere far to do anything to interesting, I didn’t want to spend the morning sitting in the smallest hotel room in the world. I walked over to Central Park. On the way I saw The Plaza hotel. No sign of Eloise.
Jeff Fletcher | November 3, 2009
Woke up this morning and took the Amtrak (there’s a plug) back from Philadelphia to New York. Once again, it was super easy and convenient. Then jumped in a cab and it was about a $12 ride to my hotel.
I have decided that this is the most compact hotel I’ve ever been in. It’s as if there was a little crack between two buildings, so they poured a hotel into there. The entire building is probably 50 feet wide. The lobby is tiny. The elevators are tiny. The rooms are really tiny. I have never stayed in a smaller hotel room in my life.
Jeff Fletcher | October 26, 2009
I’m here, in New York, which is pretty exciting. I haven’t been here since 2001. Although I hate feeding into all that New York arrogance about the city being so much better than every other place on Earth, I will grant you that it’s different, and that makes it kind of cool to visit. I can walk around and pretend I’m in an episode of Seinfeld or Friends! More later on how I plan to spend my three days in New York.
Jeff Fletcher | October 9, 2009
Sitting here at George Bush Airport in Houston. (Nice statue of our former President, the less crappy Bush, here). I’m pretty sleepy after not getting much quality sleep on the flight from LA. Got about 20 minutes till flight to STL. That’s about a 90-minute flight. Get my bag. Get a cab. Hopefully be in bed at my hotel in 2.5 hours. Sleep a couple hours and then back to the ballpark for more press conferences and player availability.
I’ve been sitting here plotting my next flight, hopefully home on Monday, if the Dodgers can win one of the next two. It’s not cheap, and it’s not convenient. I’ve decided that I don’t like St. Louis because not enough airlines fly enough nonstop from there to places I want to go.
I’m glad the Angels won last night, since they are a geographically desirable team for the World Series. Actually, I’d be happy with any of the AL cities except Minnesota. Anaheim is close. NY and Boston are good cities with great ballparks. Minnesota? Meh. Been there twice for A’s-Twins playoffs. Enough for me.
Ok time to get on flight to STL
(Pretty sure the gate agents is a transgender person. Don’t see much of that in Houston.)
Jeff Fletcher | September 8, 2009
