I went to bed last night with the Red Sox up 3-2 in a rain delay and the Rays trailing the Yankees 7-0. I woke up to the radio station telling me I missed one of the most historic stretches of baseball ever. Watch the clock. It is the 12th inning in St. Petersburg, the [...]
The only thing this slideshow (ugh) illuminates about beer and baseball is that MLB parks have a long way to go towards offering something a bit better than the traditional piss of macro-brewed beers. Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA at a Washington Senator’s game seems like the best offering. Also? Can we pretty please stop [...]
Move aside stealing home. The Seattle Mariners’ Brendan Ryan legged out an infield single and advanced to second base and then third while the Oakland A’s left both bags uncovered. Great hustle by Ryan on the infield triple. Horrible, horrible defense by the A’s. Somehow this happened a month ago and I’m just seeing it [...]
It is one of the best stories in baseball lore: On June 12, 1970, Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis pitched the season’s first no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. He would later admit that he was under the influence of LSD at the time. To hear Ellis recount the tale is perhaps one of the greatest joys of [...]
Looks okay, like a business movie crossed with a sports movie and somehow impossibly … Andy from Parks and Rec ends up playing for the Oakland A’s?
Usually, anytime Bud Selig has the chance to ruin baseball he does a damn fine job of it. However, the recent realignment rumors — 15 teams in both the American and National leagues with no divisions — is kind of great. The idea would then be to take the top five teams from each league [...]
Here’s San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum, the winner of the NL Cy Young Award the previous two seasons, delivering his windup at 1000fps thanks to the Phantom Flex High Speed digital camera. What makes this video great is Lincecum has one of the strangest deliveries in MLB right now because of his diminutive size. [...]
If James Earl Jones was meant to do anything in his life, it was scare the shit out of people with his voice and read poetry. Here he is reading “Casey at the Bat” in honor of MLB’s opening day.
Wired Magazine looks at the essential gadgets, gear, apps for the upcoming baseball season. The most essential is probably the MLB app for your iPhone or Android device, but aside from that the one thing on this list that really caught my eye was the Beerbelly. Can you say shit just got real son? You pour [...]
A handy flowchart to help you figure out what baseball team you should root for, assuming, of course, that you don’t already have a team. They had me at question number one: “Do you have a soul?” Yes kept you going, no took you immediately to the New York Yankees. This went insanely viral over [...]
