I’m leaving New Jersey in just a few days and will be leaving the Snore behind as well as a record of my brief time in the Garden State. You can now keep up with me/stalk me here:
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The Snore is packing it up and heading for the big city. BOLO for a new Big Apple blog, and hopefully a couple of final posts to the Snore to give New Jersey some closure.
10. Dutch baseball.
9. Starting third baseman for the Italian team: Frank Catalanatto, born: Smithtown, NY.
8. Irananian-Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish.
7. My all-time favorite UNC baseball player is the starting catcher for Team USA.
6. Starting shortstop for the Italian team: Nick Punto, born: San Diego, CA.
5. The mercy rule.
4. “Meaningful” baseball in March.
3. The percentage of players on the Netherlands team that are from Aruba or the Antilles is smaller than I would have guessed.
2. Starting pitcher for the Italian team: Mark DiFelice, born: Bryn Mawr, PA.
1. The world’s newest sports blogger: Fidel Castro.
15 for 24…my best ever, including 7 of the big 8 awards!
I’ll post my Oscar picks this weekend, but first, my Top 5 of 2008 (I didn’t see as many of the good movies that I wanted to see this year, and saw a lot more bad ones than I usually do):
1. Milk
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4. Rachel Getting Married
5. The Reader
Runners-Up: The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Cloverfield