Allen Barra

Allen Barra writes for the Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast and He is the author of several books.

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

bullshit.

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

Can Joe Biden save the Yankees?

From the new Village Voice

Under President Biden, Will the Yankees Return to Their Winning Ways? | The Village Voice

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[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

95th Anniversary of The Great American Novel

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[Bill James Online @billjamesonline]

And if a reader wanted to read just one of your books to get an idea of what you are doing, Andre, what book should he start with?

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

Chesterton in America

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[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

How The South Won The Civil War

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[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

@billjamesonline I don' t know if it's a Walter Matthau movie -- it's really a Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn movie -- but the best Matthau was in was Charade in 1963.

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

I don' t know if it's a Walter Matthau movie -- it's really a Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn movie -- but the best Matthau was in was Charade in 1963.

[Bill James Online @billjamesonline]

Not a single person suggested that I should have included the one in which he played Einstein.

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

In 1983 I met Muhammad Ali getting out of an elevator with his entourage at a press event. He walked right up to me and said Wanna see a magic trick? I emptied a packet of sugar into his hand and he made it all disappear. Still don't know how.

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

Lady Bird Johnson kissed me on my cheek.

[Rob Neyer @robneyer]

Tough but fair:

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

This

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

@waxpackbook Sure. My email is [email protected] but at present my time is pretty much taken up with my daughter's illness. we're temporarily moved to Pennsylvania to treat her chronic Lyme Disease so I haven't been working much lately.

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

Here's a more recent I wrote in 2018 for Stadium Talk.

https://t.co/PyMO8NAIM4

[sanford sklansky @sanford943]

@AllenBarraWrite I don't remember what I tweeted. I think it was referring to something you wrote years ago. I think it had to with older quarterbacks in playoffs and their yds per attempt. Montana had at least one good game with KC where his yds per attempt was good.

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

@MarkyBillson But no matter how often or how seldom you pass, it's efficiency that matters. BTW, If you're reading magazines that were printed thirty years ago, you've got a lot of catching up to do.

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

@MarkyBillson Marky -- I haven't done a study in the last few years to bring this up to date, but everything suggests that the equation hasn't really changed at all essentially quarterbacks are taking rushing opportunities that used to go to the running backs. …

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

@hcbeck

Hell are you? Drop me an email and bring me up to date.

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

@CPodiumcafe Conversion rates? Every conversion rare I've seen says that the shorter you have to go, the better off you are.

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

Give me 9 yards on first own and I'll take my chances on third.

[Bill James Online @billjamesonline]

Which is more important to a football team: what you do on first down, or what you do on third down?

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

@sanford943 Sanford -- thanks for your tweet but I can't read anything after "Montana and …" Can you send the rest of your message?

[Allen Barra @AllenBarraWrite]

@billjamesonline That's no excuse. Edward Gibbon wrote the first two vol of Decline and Fall with a Shetland pony in his lap.