Monthly Archives: July 2009

A sad commentary on the Mets

I’ve never liked the Mets much. I suppose they’re preferable to the Yankees, always, and the friends I have from New York who are Mets fans are all less obnoxious about baseball than my Yankees friends, but they’re still the Mets. There’s still something about them that just irks me. Maybe it’s the fact [...]

NL Central Excitement

With a win over the Cardinals Wednesday night, the Houston Astros completed the sweep of the first place St. Louis Cardinals. This classic pitchers duel between Carpenter and Oswalt was climactic to say the least. Miguel Tejada had a walk off hit with two outs in the bottom off the 9th, and [...]

Mountains out of Molehills, LeBron James Edition

So TMZ got a hold of the confiscated tape of LeBron getting dunked on by Xavier recruit Jordan Crawford.  Take a look.  Did you see what I saw?  What a cock tease.  The kid drives the lane and gets up in the air before LeBron can come over to provide help defense.  Nice dunk, but [...]

Baseball is a Contact Sport, End Of Fucking Story

I’m not sure where this rumor got started, but over the past two decades people out there have been claiming that baseball isn’t a contact sport like football, basketball, or hockey.  Hearing someone claim this gets pretty much the same reaction out of me as someone who claims that global warming doesn’t exist: I get [...]

NASCAR is Trying Way Too Hard to Relate to Its Fans

So NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield is a meth addict. He’s been caught twice with the drug in his system, and supposedly was high on meth during some races. His stepmother has given testimony that she’s seen him use meth around 30 times. He responded to those accusations by calling her a bitch [...]

My Interview with Sarah Spain

Hey there Other Fifteeners.  How ya doin’?  Can’t wait for the weekend to start?  Yeah, me too.  Not that the weekends are any different for me than any other day, but other people seem to like them a lot.  So we have a little treat for you: an interview with a legitimate member of the [...]

Girardi Refers To Young Player As Female Genetalia (In A Loving Way)

Alright! Enough! I have absolutely had it with managers who add a “y” to end of a player’s name and there it is: a new nickname. It’s unoriginal and unimaginative bullshit. I’m talking to you Francona and Girardi. You two are the biggest culprits. Recently, one of my new favorite Yankees, catcher Francisco Cervelli, was [...]

New Shea

So on Saturday I went to a Mets game with my buddy Dave.  It was my first trip to the new stadium and the first time I would get to see Johan Santana on the mound.  It was quite a day, and left a big impression on me, so i thought I’d share my experience [...]

A Baseball Purist’s Wet Dream

So in last nights game between the Cubbies and Cards, we had an epic matching of wits between managers Lou Pinella and Tony LaRussa.  In the top of the ninth, Lou brought in lefty Sean Marshall with the bases loaded.  After Marshall got the first out, Lou came in to talk to the umpire, apparently [...]

Jonathan Sanchez? Really?

So last night, Giants pitcher Jonathan Sanchez through a no hitter with 11 ks and no walks.  It would have been a perfect game if not for an error.  This was his first start in two weeks after being demoted to the ‘pen, and he was only in the rotation because Randy Johnson got hurt.  [...]