In right, he doesn't remind anyone of Dave Winfield. He doesn't even remind me of Rob Deer. But he was the best offensive player on the best offensive team in a heroic age for offense. I'd put Pedro Martinez second, no mean honor. At the start of this year, though, you'd have been well off trading Martinez even-up for Ramirez.
Cheese fries are an extremely unhealthy food.
If they are going to ban smoking at ballparks in the interest of public health, they should really look into banning cheese fries. The age of live Internet baseball is upon us, as we learned when Bobby Valentine sat the Mets on his lap, gave them cookies and milk, and clicked happily to follow the pennant-race ballgames. The webcasts available leave some things to be desired, however. Total Baseball's TotalCasts don't press any buttons on me. They seem clunky, not always accurate, and ill-suited to the rhythms of the game.