… Some days, it rains.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The San Diego Padres uniforms of the 1970s, both infamous and beloved, reflect the extremes of that decade, itself simultaneously a joyous and miserable time. Like the nation, the team wandered into strange territory in the early ’70s, mellowed out in the middle of the decade, then got its freak on hard in the late [...]
1. Sept. 30, 2008 Put Jim Thome in the lefthanded batter’s box. The rest of the details matter. The rest of the details are immaterial. The rest of the details will follow. Stare out the window and wait, and they’ll come, like the leaves, like the snow, like the spring. For now, though, put Jim [...]
The flesh of his middle and index fingers presses against white hide and red wax-covered thread. His medieval weapon of an arm rears up and crests the plane above his head. Electrical impulses have already left his brain and are racing to his hand to tell his thumb to move out of the way at [...]
One by one, sports in America have been ruining their postseason for the sake of making a buck. Hats off to Bud Selig, who has broken through the regular-season ceiling with his roundly panned six-game slate set for Thursday. A HISTORY OF CHASING THE BUCK Sports have a long history of screwing over fans in [...]
There was much wagging of tongues, spilling of ink and gnashing of cyber-teeth during spring training when someone from the Minnesota front office leaked that lefthander Francisco Liriano was not in the Twins’ long-term plans. This set off a chain reaction, whereby the New York Yankees — desperate for pitching — inevitably got floated as [...]
Vin Scully: Helloooooooo eeeeeeveryone, I’m Vinnnnn Scully. What you are aboooooooout to witness iiiiiiis real. The participants are not aaaaaactors. They are aaaaaaactual litigants with a case pending in Caliiiiiifooooornia civil court. Both parties have agreeeeeeeeed to drop their claims and have their case settled heeeeeeeere, in our forum: The People’s Court. Vin Scully [...]
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So we at NoPepper.net will from time to time emulate the fine folks at FireJoeMorgan (RIP) by eviscerating columns we judge to be pieces of shit. Our first victim is Chicago Tribune national baseball writer Phil Rogers, who had this to say about Cubs prospect Matt [...]
This week at NoPepper.net, famed author Buzz Bissinger, who penned the popular sports books Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August, begins a new advice column where he answers your fantasy baseball emails. You can follow his entertaining musings on Twitter (@buzzbissinger), unless he murders you first. Dear Buzz, I had the 14th and [...]