Joe Sheehan of Sports Illustrated and the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter joined Rick Ralph on the Rona Roundtable discussing baseball in Montreal, Yasiel Puig, Miguel Cabera’s contract and how Masahiro Tanaka will fare in New York.
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Jonah Keri on his book Up, Up and Away
Author Jonah Keri joined Rick Ralph on the Rona Roundtable earlier this week to discuss his new book “Up, Up & Away: The Kid, The Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, Le Grand Orange, Youppi!, The Crazy Business of Baseball & the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos”.
About the book: The definitive history of the Montreal Expos by the definitive Expos fan, the New York Times bestselling sportswriter and Grantlandcolumnist Jonah Keri.
2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team’s move to Washington, DC. But the memories aren’t dead–not by a long shot. The Expos pinwheel cap is still sported by Montrealers, former fans, and by many more in the US and Canada as a fashion item. Expos loyalists are still spotted at Blue Jays games and wherever the Washington Nationals play (often cheering against them). Every year there are rumours that Montreal–as North America’s largest market without a baseball team–could host Major League Baseball again.
There has never been a major English-language book on the entire franchise history. There also hasn’t been a sportswriter as uniquely qualified to tell the whole story, and to make it appeal to baseball fans across Canada AND south of the border. Jonah Keri writes the chief baseball column for Grantland, and routinely makes appearances in Canadian media such as The Jeff Blair Show, Prime Time Sports and Off the Record. The author of the New York Times baseball bestseller The Extra 2% (Ballantine/ESPN Books), Keri is one of the new generation of high-profile sports writers equally facile with sabermetrics and traditional baseball reporting. He has interviewed everyone for this book (EVERYONE: including the ownership that allowed the team to be moved), and fans can expect to hear from just about every player and personality from the Expos’ unforgettable 35 years in baseball. Up, Up, and Away is already one of the most anticipated sports books of next year.
Al Montoya does the splits
Al Montoya is a great puck handler but it gets him into trouble here. Montoya quickly recovers with this move that makes even my groin hurt!
Adam Burish hand injury from blocked shot
Not even Johnny Knoxville would get in front of this howitzer.
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Super Lube Warmup: Wheeler’s Toughness & Manitoba Slurpees
I joined Andrew “Hustler” Paterson on The Super Lube Warmup on TSN 1290 Winnipeg; We discussed Blake Wheleer’s toughness after getting body checked by the Dallas Stars bench door (he’s very tough) and the difference in taste between Slurpees sold in Manitoba, and Slurpees sold outside of Manitoba (they’re not even the same thing).