To be fair, the river did stare at that home run for a really long time. Read more

Just let the Reds have the division crown. They want it more than the three teams at the top. Read more

I really think that what the Jays are doing will be instructive to the rest of the league. Forget investing a ton of money in scouting and development. Just start paying a premium for genuine ex-big leaguer semen. Forget stud prospects, embrace stud fees. The Jays have clearly shown they can’t draft, sign or trade… Read more

Tarp’eh diem. Read more

It’s also neat that he’s the first player to start a game and earn the save. Read more

“After the O’s used nine actual, professional pitchers”
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the first save by a position player in Major League history Read more

If this had happen during the Montreal portion of the Rays season, it would have been even more confusing because it would have all been in metric. Read more

But if everyone is walking around you for 20 years telling you what a great guy you are and how great a job you are doing, you will never see your mistakes. Read more

Best part of this whole gator saga was that they initially brought in this dipshit named Alligator Bob who spent a week not being able to catch an Alligator, and the first dude they bring up from Florida catches it in like 20 minutes. Read more

Think of all the cash and cars he can win barnstorming half-time shows at basketball games. Read more

If only Alzolay had done that with two strikes it would have been the ol’ strike-em-out-throw-it-run-em-down-tag-em-out-throw-em-out triple play. Read more

I teach a Baseball History class and after I showed them the ESPN Dennis Eckersley video biography in class, and they had found out Manning stole Eck’s wife, a couple of them, who play on the baseball team, shot daggers at each other. I later found out the team’s catcher had “stolen” the second baseman’s girlfriend… Read more

For a mustache and hair combo there’s The Eck and then everybody else. I mean even in this horseshit Cleveland jersey, thinking about how Rick Manning stole his wife, the man looks absolutely majestic.

Ken Phelps, Bob Knepper, Chris Bosio, Mike LaValliere, Paul Kilgus, Kelly Paris, Keith Atherton, Bob Horner, Mark Clear. Read more

Mikey is a normal name for a guy in Waltham. Find a new slant.  Read more

Bone hugs in harmony. Read more

ecstatic release at a Bone party, huh Read more

The NCAA: where whistblowers are silenced, but whistlers cannot be  Read more

The problem with the penalty goalie off the line rulings is that it has NEVER been called this way. If you made it a ‘point of emphasis’ before the tournament, maybe they did I don’t know, that you were going to do this then fine, but no keeper basically in the world ever expects to be called for a line violation.… Read more