Beane Counters – Grantland “The team has been remarkably successful since, winning six division titles and making seven playoff appearances in the past 17 years. The A’s have managed that sustained excellence despite consistently fielding one of the game’s smallest payrolls, and they’ve done so by constantly staying ahead of … Read More
So, Canada Reads starts today (and goes until Thursday), and since we at DailyXY strive to be both gentlemen and scholars, we decided to read all five books and tell you what we thought. Actually, Robson was the only one who did that, but he won’t shut up about it, … Read More
When meeting with Canadian officials over land claims in the 1990s, a Gitksan elder asked, “If this is your land, where are your stories?” It’s a reasonable question—don’t the stories we tell about a place, in part, create a place? It’s doubtful that the elder had been reading Benedict Anderson; … Read More
