Author: Tom Bartel

  • We Do This Every Three Years

    If you are reading this, you are at The Rake’s new web site. And you are looking at the result of a lot of work by Cristina Córdova, our web editor, Matt Bartel, our web geek, Brad Richter of Codewarp, and Erika Stenrick and Ronan Dowling of Gorton Studios. Kraig Larson of Ciceron did the…

  • Stranger in a Strange Land

    UrbanEye, a New York Times email newsletter, is meant to be a daily aid in deciding “what to see, eat, do and wear in New York City.” It is useful for the infrequent visitor to New York to know what he is missing when he isn’t there. Since discovering the newsletter, I’ve devoured the theater…

  • Ok, Maybe not Sabathia for Santana

    How’d you like to see this coming at you? If last night was any indication, either I’ve severely overestimated C.C. Sabathia or Eric Wedge way overused him during the season. Over 240 innings in a year is a lot these days. (Santana pitched 219 this year.) Last night (and in game one of the Boston…

  • What I Saw on My Summer Vacation

    In celebration of thirty years of my wife’s profound ability to tolerate me, we went to France for ten days last month. We did the things we usually do when we go to interesting places. We got a very small and inexpensive hotel room (under the theory that we’re never there anyway) and spent all…

  • Why I Like the Clevelands

    I was in the ticket sales office for the new Twins ballpark a few weeks ago. Actually, it must have been more than a few weeks ago because the Twins hadn’t yet given up and fallen off the pennant chase earth. On their big screen TV was a replay of the previous night’s game with…

  • Your Own Radio Station

    With pandora.com, you can tell them what you like, and they’ll program a radio station for you to listen to.