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On the heels of his wildly successful and in no way embarrassing look at the pop culture goodies inside his office, ESPN’s director of Page 2, Lynn Hoppes, comes to NoPepper to present Lynn Hoppes’ Baseball Memorabilia Corner. Hey there, bros. Lynn Hoppes here from my Page 2 mancave in Bristol. And boy, you’re all [...]
Bad sports columns happen every day. But every once in a while, a particularly wretched screed presents thoughts so vile that the entire internet, seemingly, responds in unified wrath. Such was the case when pornstachioed cretin John Steigerwald of the Washington (Pa.) Observer-Reporter wrote a column that blamed San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow for [...]
A friend of mine was having a big party. This wasn’t the typical college-boy crap, with sticky floors in the basement from spilled drinks and a line 15 minutes long just to get to a keg of Busch Lite. No, this was an honest-to-God party. She rented out a facility near the uppity St. Paul [...]
The “Who We Are” entry here at NoPepper.net declares the following: “We are over the damned designated hitter, though. Do shut up.” Heh, heh. Suckers. There was once a time when the designated hitter elicited the kind of emotion usually reserved for ward-style politics and debating your significant other about the merits of that sex [...]
We like Jim Souhan. We really do. That’s why we take almost no pleasure in what we’re about to do. But it must be done, and so it shall be done. Because when stuck for a column, mild-mannered Minneapolis Star Tribune baseball writer Jim Souhan goes into a phone booth — they still have phone [...]
They used to do this on horseback. We roll slowly, barely above an idle, in a brown 1950 GMC half-ton pickup along the fenceline on my grandfather’s ranch. Riding fence. Checking for holes, for broken posts, for snapped barbed wire, for rot in the wood cut from the shelterbelt behind the house and made into [...]
I am the one writer here who does not *love* The Wire. Does that make me a bad person? I don’t care what you think. The West Wing all the way, baby. Aaron Sorkin could write a mediocre sitcom about late-night TV and I woul … oh. Uh. Well, my love of The West Wing [...]
Manny Ramirez retired rather than face a 100-game suspension for yet another positive drug test, launching more steroid-related columns, blog posts and stories — including this one, we suppose — than he did baseballs with that vicious right-handed swing with a high finish. Even a brief trip through the Google News headlines shows you, everyone [...]
Rumors, I mean, rumours from our civilized cousins to the north suggest that the Toronto Blue Jays might return to using blue as a primary color in the near future. Odd that the ballclub presently uses black as its primary color — after all, the team nickname includes the word blue. But such is the [...]
Apparently, the pressure during this, the beginning of the Albert Pujols Farewell Tour, already has begun to wear on America’s favorite over-manager. After another home loss to the frisky Pirates on Wednesday, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was asked by a reporter during the postgame news conference about his team’s inept offense. La Russchebag was [...]