… Some days, it rains.
I love Time-Zone-Inappropriate baseball. Allow me to explain. My evening doesn’t begin until your morning newspaper (heh) is running on the press. Thus, my options for an afterwork ballgame are something that’s already finished (and something about which I already know the ending) or the ass-end of a West Coast ballgame, if I am lucky. [...]
He never played a game whole year in the minor leagues. Harmon Killebrew is entering hospice care, and nearing the end of his fight with cancer. Writing news obituaries follows a pretty standard format, and the defining characteristic is the obit appositive. Essentially, they go like this: “Insert Name, insert defining appositive phrase here, died [...]
After the information was relayed to Obama, he turned to his advisers and said: “We donated a $60 million helicopter to this operation. Could we not afford to buy a tape measure?” – Bob Woodward in the WaPo
Now THAT was a no-hitter. If Francisco Liriano was among the American League starters least likely to throw a no-no, Justin Verlander falls into the exact opposite category. He’s a guy who almost surprises you when he isn’t dominant. It’s a testament to how fantastic Major League pitching has been the last few years that [...]
Sixty one. Remember when that was the milestone for baseball hitters? It was the Everest of statistical challenges: seemingly reachable, but only under a very specific set of circumstances. Maybe I just don’t like change. Sixty one still seems like the number to me. But that could start a debate. There’s no debating 56. Joe [...]
This bullshit has gone far enough. I won’t let it stand anymore. I’m tired of taking shit from everyone, so I’m going to shout it from the mountain top. I’m going to go all J.G. Wentworth “It’s my money and I need it now!” on the world out of my third-floor brownstone window. I’m not [...]
This is what makes baseball great. Frankie Liriano — Left Arm of God, Head of Rashard Mendenhall — was one more poor outing from leaving Minnesota’s rotation. So, of course, he went out and threw a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox. But of course, it has to be weirder. It was pretty weak, as [...]
The laurel-crowned losers, the regents of Springtime, When pud-tugging ballclubs play masterful ball. Chimeras in stirrups, these monarchs of April, Who win as if cruel September won’t call! Palookaville Blue Sox, first place in the standings. Fat pitcher, trim pitch count – a shutout is thrown. The [...]
Pippa Middleton is kind of hot. That’s Kate Middleton’s sister, if you weren’t up at 4 a.m. to watch the Wedding of the Century. Are we that shallow of a society that this is what we have to talk about the day Osama bin Laden was killed? We are exactly that shallow. Almost ten years [...]
It’s the first of May, and the Minnesota Twins are nine games out of first place. Now don’t get us wrong. The Twins typically start slow. But this team’s struggles are not a matter of degree, but of kind, entirely. They don’t look like the Twins — partly because the lineup ought to be playing [...]