From The Sporting Blog, here is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen in baseball: A Fordham player diving head first over the catcher to score a run and avoid getting tagged out.
August 11, 2009 – 10:08 pm
As I’m sure you’ve seen or heard, Tigers pitcher Rick Porcello body slammed Kevin Youkilis in the second inning of Tuesday night’s game in Boston.
I didn’t see it as it happened— I was listening to my Gameday Audio. Naturally, MLB.com has conveniently avoided posting it as a game highlight on their web site. I [...]
August 10, 2009 – 6:42 am
I am an unabashed fan of the Boston Red Sox and David Ortiz. If you are not a fan of the team than you can have no idea what David Ortiz as a player means to his fans. It is with that said that I feel like I have to believe his words from his [...]
Welcome to the first installment of History Kicks Ass, where we will try to pay homage to the rich history of sports. This week: Urban Shocker. Do I even need to write anything else? Seriously, the guy’s name was Urban Shocker. No, he did not lead an elite anti-gang task force. And no, he is [...]
After literally decades of planning, the Other Fifteen finally has a podcast…
What’s a podcast? I’m glad you asked. It’s like the radio, but it scares your parents more. It’s like a blog but more MP3ish. It likes a tornado where no one dies but lots of trailers get destroyed. It’s that good.
How best should I [...]
Sorry Frankie, but you knew what you were getting into. The Mets are the opposite of Mark Teixeira hustling from first on a routine pop-up to win the game. That would never even occur to them. Honestly, can you even picture Jose Reyes doing that?
Every season the Mets begin with a seemingly (although sometimes only [...]
Jeremy, first, Ortiz didn’t take steroids, and second, your argument and examples for the fact he did, suck.
David Ortiz at Baseball Reference
Ortiz’s power did not suddenly appear. He was a part-time player on the Twins, a team that undervalued his skills and mis-used his abilities. They wanted him to be a 1B with power. In [...]
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