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. Today’s world gives us no shortage of things which make us want to stab ourselves in the eyes. Many… Read More Five Current Events That Piss Us Off and Their Sports Equivalents
Editor’s Note: Mr. McGrath has long and storied history in the management of professional sports franchises, most notably as the general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs of the now-defunct Federal League. Oh, and this is probably a good time to mention that Mr. McGrath’s views are his own, and do not necessarily reflect those of… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath on Stupidity
Frank McCourt Death Watch: Day 6 Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an effort to prevent a takeover by Major League Baseball, Fox News reported Monday. Color me shocked. The guy’s been hemorrhaging money for years, he’s in the middle of the ugliest divorce in the history of divorces,… Read More Frank McCourt Death Watch: Chapter 11
Fuck the Dodgers. There’s all kinds of reasons to hate the Dodgers, Lord knows I’ve written about them time and time again. Just find “Los Angeles Dodgers” in the Tag Cloud on this page and you will see what I mean. But one thing I’ve never mentioned is the Dodger Dog. If you’ve never had… Read More Welcome to Hate Week – SoCal Baseball Style And The Vin Scully Drinking Game
I know that title sounds a bit flip, but in all honestly, this relationship was an affair, not a marriage. It all started a few years back when the Nationals fired the best manager they could hope to get at the time. On the rebound from Manny Acta, Mike Rizzo hired Jim Riggleman. From all… Read More When The Affair Is Over – Jim Riggleman and The Washington Nationals
Frank McCourt Death Watch: Day One It is time to start the countdown until Frank McCourt no longer owns the Los Angeles Dodgers. Everything seems to be closing in on him; there’s the divorce settlement which hinged on the TV deal, which Commissioner Bud Selig just rejected, which means we are headed for a one-day… Read More Dubsism: Your Home For The Frank McCourt Death Watch
If you don’t remember (I’m not sure how anybody over the age of 35 would forget), back in 1985 the soon-to-be Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears produced what I consider to be the vanguard in ultra-cheestastic sports/music videos when the foist the “Super Bowl Shuffle” on the world. Sure the Dodgers had the decidedly more… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: The PGA Goes All “Super Bowl Shuffle” On Us
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 well worth the read. There’s many things wrong in the world, which is why some of the things that should be… Read More Ten Things I Hate About Sports Right Now
Of all the names we’ve listed so far in this parade of over-rated, this is the one that will get the most argument, so it also requires the most detailed case. This is also the point where I have to warn you that since I am an engineer by education, there’s some heavy number-crunching and… Read More The Definitive Dubsism List of 35 All-Time Over-Rated Baseball Players, Part II – The Most Overrated Player in History Is…
35) Jack Clark If there was a player today most like Clark, it would be Adrian Beltre, meaning he really knew how to turn it on during his contract years, not that he knew how to get hit in the junk. Clark started out with the Giants, before moving on to the Cardinals. then he… Read More The Definitive Dubsism List of 35 All-Time Over-Rated Baseball Players, Part I
Sure, it’s easy to vote for the guys who don’t suck. But somebody has to give a shout out to the guys who, well… they’re trying as best they can. So, in addition to the 25 votes we get for the All-Star team, we decided to make one of our own for the guys who… Read More The Dubsism Baseball All No-Star Team
Sure, this is a small-time blog written by a group of convicted felons and read by worse. Sure, we do that stupid shit about writing predictions, since that seems to be a rule…once you put electronic pen to electronic paper, you have to become a prognosticator. Failure to do so means the Blog Police come… Read More The Memorial Day Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings – How Wrong We Were
Editor’s Note: Mr. McGrath has long and storied history in the management of professional sports franchises, most notably as the general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs of the now-defunct Federal League. Oh, and this is probably a good time to mention that Mr. McGrath’s views are his own, and do not necessarily reflect those of… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath on Frank McCourt and The Los Angeles Dodgers
Do you remember this guy? His name is Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, but you likely know him as “Baghdad Bob.” We all came to know him during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Iraqi Information Minister under Saddam Hussein. Realistically, he was a comical figure as a mouthpiece for Saddam’s regime; his… Read More Frank McCourt Needs a Minister of Information
Let’s face it, college programs cheat. There’s an old saying in college sports, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” Recently, we here at Dubsism hung a tag of “dirty program” on Auburn, but to be fair, they are far from the only one. Hell, they probably are all dirty; just because your school may… Read More The 10 Dirtiest College Programs Plus The Ones Of Which I’m Most Suspicious
Anybody who has read this blog know how I feel about the Los Angeles Dodgers; if not you may want to check my original treatise on the subject before reading any further here; you may find having the additional perspective helpful. What has happened to this franchise really should be a crime. If there were… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears – The Real Tragedy of the Los Angeles Dodgers
Honestly, I’ve been trying to stay away from this situation that has evolved from the incident on opening day at Dodger Stadium. Anybody who knows me knows I have a life-long hatred of the Dodgers. But it has become so clear that Frank McCourt has done something I never thought possible; he’s made the Dodger… Read More I Can’t Keep Quiet Any Longer on the Dodger Stadium Incident
The Liberal approach doesn’t work. The conservative approach doesn’t work. So now what?… Read More The Socio-Economic Failings of Sports
1) Philadelphia Phillies Upside: The pitching rotation – who else has three proven aces on their staff, with a chaser of Cole Hamels and Joe Blanton? Nobody. Not to mention, this team won 97 games last year despite being crippled by injuries, and whoever wasn’t hurt kinda sucked. Downside: The loss of Jayson Werth means… Read More The Dubsism 2011 Opening Day Baseball Power Rankings
The sporting world is full of rivalries which engender so much passion there are clear battle lines drawn between the camps. But what happens to those of us who may feel animus toward both sides? Here’s a list of several such examples that make the collective colon here at Dubsism slam shut like a steel… Read More Famous Sports Rivalries In Which I Hate Both Sides
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