When you are the fan of a 100-loss team, you expect your team to make changes; after all, you just lost 100 games. This is a feat which has only been dubiously achieved by 28 teams in the last 30 years, the Houston Astros becoming the latest to do so. If the Twins don’t win… Read More The Minnesota Twins: The Post-Mortem
A few years ago, I would have never imagined this moment was possible; Joe Mauer was a god in catcher’s gear in Minnesota. But, when you sign a contract worth roughly the gross national product of Portugal, then bat under .250 with absolutely no power, the tables are going to turn. But now we’ve entered… Read More Great Moments in Minnesota Twins History: The Day Hating Joe Mauer Entered The Afterlife
A few days ago, San Francisco Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt had his season end after he sustained a deep cut in his right hand while using a knife to separate frozen hamburger patties. The injury required surgery to repair nerve damage in the little finger of his non-throwing hand. While I’m not intending to poke fun at… Read More Great Moments in the History of Dumb Baseball Injuries
In my last baseball rankings, I said the All-Star break to me has always represented the “far turn” in the horse race that is the Major League Baseball season. This means Labor Day marks the beginning of the home stretch; everybody has less than thirty games to play; everybody’s made their non-waiver and waiver trade… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The Labor Day Edition – The Contenders vs. The Pretenders Edition
This may just be the usual rookie hazing, but this represents something that has gone just a bit too far in this country. This is Anthony Bass of the San Diego Padres, a team that has a tradition of making the rookies wear “Star Wars” backpacks. Frankly, this is just a glimpse of a much larger… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Star Wars Geekery Must Be Stopped
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. Lately, all the attention for bad ownership has been focused on that shithead who owns the Los Angeles Dodgers… Read More The 15 Worst Sports Owners Not Named McCourt or Wilpon
First, let me define the concept of Cubsism. Named for the Chicago Cubs, Cubsism is an ideaology that permeates a sports franchise. It is characterized by the ability to be essentially viable while remaining an exercise in futulity on the field. It is named for the Cubs because no other franchise in sports embodies it nearly… Read More Dubsism on Cubsism
Whether you like it or not, nut shots are never not funny…especially when it is a mascot encouraging a bat-boy to punt the ying-yings of an opposing mascot. It’s all for your viewing pleasure here…
The Frank McCourt Saga in Los Angeles is like the psycho-killer in one of those “Slasher” movies who just won’t die. In the latest development, the Los Angeles Dodgers have reached an agreement to accept as much as $150 million in loans from Major League Baseball to keep the team afloat as it works its… Read More Frank McCourt Death Watch: Dodgers Strike Deal With MLB To Stay Alive For $150 Million More
Whether it’s stocks, fantasy baseball, or the real thing, trading can be a dangerous proposition. There’s no guarantee that the deal will work; only time will tell whether your investment pays off or whether you get to sell you blood to make the rent this month. But, one thing that is certain; where there’s… Read More The Baseball Trading Deadline – The Shark Week Comparison
Time for some brutal honesty, men. Every one of you has taken a “C-list” woman on an “A-List” date just because you knew it dramatically increased your odds of breaking a “dry spell.” Picture the Washington Nationals as Mr. Dry Spell, and free-agent pitcher Chien-Ming Wang as the C-list chick and you get the idea.… Read More Enter Your Own “Wang” Joke for the Washington Nationals
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that…” – Jerry Seinfeld If you’ve never been a fantasy baseball participant, this won’t make sense to you at all. In fact, most of this blog makes very little sense to most people, so you are far from alone. However, if you’ve known the joys of fantasy baseball draft… Read More Matt Stairs: My First Fantasy Baseball “Man-Crush”
Do you live under a rock? Of course, its a bad idea. Every time there’s a blown call in baseball everybody starts crying about how baseball needs instant replay. What nobody realizes is that these calls only ever come when it is a sympathetic character that gets “robbed.” Everybody was up in arms last year… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is Instant Replay In Baseball A Bad Idea?
We’ve gotten to the point where you can’t have a discussion about the history of baseball without it getting mired into the “S-word”…steroids. Yet, leave it to the outspoken Curt Schilling to add yet another log on the “get over it” fire that really needs to be lit under the collective asses of the “steroid… Read More Curt Schilling: No Team Has Won Cleanly in Last 20 Years
Now that we’ve made it past Baseball’s Hall of Fame Weekend, and since Bert Blyleven finally has been inducted, you may have thought you were safe from my annual Hall of Fame rant. You were wrong. I have lots of rants when it comes to this institution. So there’s no misunderstanding, there’s only one guy… Read More The Definitive Dubsism Run-Down on Who Belongs in The Baseball Hall of Fame
Perfect…this is just what we need. Over the next 24 hours, you can expect ESPN to overflow with lawyers numbing your brain about the legal nuances in play here. We here at Dubsism intend to do no such thing. Rather, we will expose you to what is being reported and then translate it into what… Read More BREAKING NEWS: Mistrial Declared in Roger Clemens’ Steroid Trial
Yeah, I know it isn’t official yet. But Jim Crane is set to become the new owner of the Houston Astros; hell, someday we might even officially announce it. Houston businessman Jim Crane and current owner Drayton McLane agreed to a $680 million sale in May. McLane said at the time he expected the deal to… Read More Get To Know ‘Em – Astros’ Probable New Owner Jim Crane
For me, the All-Star break has always represented the “far turn” in the horse race that is the Major League Baseball season. This is the point when general managers acting as jockeys must decide whether they are contenders or pretenders; whether to go to the whip (trade for talent to augment a “stretch run”) or… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The All-Star Break Edition – Will I Have To Eat My Keyboard?
Frank McCourt Death Watch – Day25: The Day IT Happened No matter what else happens in the Dubsism coverage of the final days of the McCourt regime in Los Angeles, this will be a day of infamy. Those of you that know me, those of you who have been readers of this blog, you know… Read More Frank McCourt Death Watch – Day 25: I’m on the Same Side as Steve Garvey. Wait, What?!
We have far too much self-castration going on in the world of sports; so much so it is bleeding over into real life. Manny Ramirez cut his own balls off when he kept using banned substances. Jim Riggleman cut his own balls off when he had a temper tantrum and walked away from one of… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: So, You Want To Cut Your Own Balls Off?
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