Category: General Sports – Baseball

Marketing a defaced product

By John Fontana | Mar 6th 2009 | 2 min read |

Taking a break from fuming over the Lightning for a minute, I got a nifty little email this afternoon from one of the upteen PR firms that contact me ...

Provincialism

By John Fontana | Jan 15th 2009 | 5 min read |

Taking a break from my attacks on Lightning management, I’ll redirect my efforts now toward the city of St. Petersburg, Florida. Previously know...

William A. Shea Stadium's drawn out end

By John Fontana | Oct 16th 2008 | 3 min read |

Very much off topic… I grew up a Mets fan, living in a small village on Long Island in New York. I can remember, as a young kid, how everyone wa...

Juiced story syndrome

By John Fontana | Oct 14th 2008 | 1 min read |

Rays / Red Sox about to get underway on TBS (why the hell did MLB approve putting all playoff games in the first two rounds on basic cable?!) but I wa...

"Major risk, major reward?" or "Evan Almighty!"

By John Fontana | Apr 18th 2008 | 2 min read |

I’ve gotten used to the New York Islanders pulling stuff like this and I’ve also gotten used to the Tampa Bay lack-of-Devil Rays pulling t...

Crossing the line, sports wise

By John Fontana | Aug 31st 2007 | 2 min read |

I got sent a story last night from my friend here in Tampa. He’s a Red Sox fan and this was about a Yankees fan… So I wasn’t at all ...

some of the big news while I was away

By John Fontana | Aug 21st 2007 | 1 min read |

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Rays sending out feelers on ballpark

By John Fontana | Nov 11th 2006 | 2 min read |

The St. Pete Times reported this morning in a short blurb on the cover of their print sports section that the D-Rays are sending out feelers for what ...

Feel the love

By John Fontana | Apr 27th 2006 | 1 min read |

Anyone remember Delmon Young demanding money from reporters who wished to interview him? Oh wait, it gets better as Delmon is looking at a suspension ...

Stop Bonds

By John Fontana | Apr 16th 2006 | 1 min read |

I’m usually not big on petition sites (tried it one time and it didn’t work out) but I believe this deserved mention… There is an On...