In all honesty, one can make a bunch of jokes about how the roof of the “Humptydome” coming down is just a metaphor for all the terrible teams that have played under the Teflon Sky. Make a list and see the trail of sporting tears that have called the Metrodome home. The only resident still… Read More The Real Reason The Metrodome Roof Collapsed
God Bless Jamie Moyer. Not only has he had an amazing career up to this point… “Uh, wait,” you are saying. “Did you just say ‘up to this point?’ The man is 48 years old, and his elbow literally exploded off his body a mere matter of weeks ago. He’s gotta be done, right?” …I’m… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update: Could He Eat 50 Eggs?
Charley Pegler – Brewster’s Millions Charley Pegler would the perfect manager for the Cubs, as he knows how to deal apparently self-destructive people. If you don’t remember the plot, Richard Pryor plays a minor-league pitcher who inexplicably inherits a shitload of money on the proviso he wastes $30 million in 30 days. Naturally, everybody thinks… Read More The Best Movie Baseball Managers
Jamie Moyer turns 48 on November 18th. Now, thanks to the Phillies cutting their ties with the veteran left-hander, he’s a free agent. The team placed him on waivers last month to clear a spot on the 40-man roster and hasten Moyer’s move to the open market. Moyer has 267 wins and 2,405 strikeouts in… Read More From One Campaign To Another: Vote Jamie Moyer in 2012!
It may be that I finally have become the grumpy old man (it doesn’t help that I idolize Joe Paterno), but given some recent past events, I think we are witnessing the destruction of what was once the wonder of sports. Honestly, I’m a middle-aged guy whose formative years were in the late 70’s and… Read More Why Sports Will Suck In The Future
In today’s installment of why fat guys can still be world-class athletes, what better example than baseball? After all, not only are we on the cusp of the World Series, but the greatest baseball player in the history of ever was decidedly a fat guy. For your perusal, here is the full roster for a… Read More The All-Time, All Fat Guy Baseball Team
If there ever were a sport which have a love affair with its record book, it would be baseball. It takes two guys to carry the official baseball record book, not only because baseball spans three centuries, but because baseball historians keep track of everything. One might think after all that record-keeping and record-breaking that… Read More The Real Story on Baseball’s “Unbreakable” Records
20) The Rose Bowl – Pasadena, California Much your grandfather who fought in World War II, The Rose Bowl is all about what once was. The fact that we keep sticking modern Super Bowls in this ancient edifice means once every few years is not reminder enough of how antiquated this stadium is. If it… Read More The 20 Worst Sports Venues In America
When we as a nation take a hard look at why we love certain sports, it comes down to down to some ugly facts. We as a nation identify with the characteristics in sports that we see in ourselves. If you don’t believe that look at the most popular sports in this country. Don’t get… Read More Why Baseball Rules, and How Fox Sports is Destroying It
Here we are; another October full of post-season baseball. Let’s be honest, most of the crap I said about these teams six months ago was wrong, so why not go for month number seven proving I have no idea what I’m talking about. Take the following for example (from April 22nd): California in General: The Padres are leading… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The Post-Season “Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For” Edition
Over on Listverse, there has been another great-yet-odd list compiled. While the subject doesn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that I found it comparable to a somehow-sports-related screed, it is really hard to resist a list of people who were killed by radiation. Just think, the same power that heats up your lunch in… Read More Ten Famous Deaths By Radiation Poisoning and Their Equivalent Sports Firings
Now that the race in the American League Central is all but over, it is really time to eulogize the White Sox; by “eulogize” I mean point out why the White Sux are really one of the most irritating franchises in all of sports. Let’s face it. White Sox fans even by their very existence… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: The Chicago White Sox
I love Listverse. The one beef I would have is that it doesn’t have enough good sports lists. But what it does have is many lists that have equivalencies in the sports world. Today’s installment involves 10 forms of government and gives a representative example from the sports world. Think of it as a civics… Read More Ten Forms of Government and Their Representative Sports Organizations
September marks the time of year when football and baseball intersect. Its only natural that many players played both; the two-sport star existed before Bo Jackson, and to this day there are plenty who have laced it up on both fields. Many of the boys of summer you are watching now easily could have been… Read More The Ten Best Football Players in Baseball
When you are a kid, two things that get your juices going are music and sports. Face it, being good at either was the ticket to Chick-town, and since I was 14 with enough testosterone surging through my veins to kill a man in his 50’s, I got involved in both because I was taking… Read More The Deep Six: “Old School” Rhythm Sections and Their Sporting Equivalents
Here it is nearing the end of the 2010 season, and once again, all is amiss in Wrigleyville. Derrek Lee is gone, Carlos Zambrano is a headcase, Alfonso Soriano is a bust, and thanks to Carlos Silva’s heart issues, the Cubs most effective pitcher is arguably some guy named Tom Gorzelanny. Manager Lou Piniella couldn’t… Read More Open Letter to The Chicago Cubs: You Need Ed’s Deal
How many times have we seen this movie? A young phenom pitcher bursts onto the scene, electrifies the league with his electric stuff, then a fuse blows. Enter Stephen Strasburg, whose sheer voltage somehow managed to make the Washington Nationals relevant if for even the briefest of moments. Don’t get me wrong; the probability that… Read More Stephen Strasburg Is Just The Latest In A Long Line
I think the reasons for this may have been mentioned before. Let’s play a game called “Baseball Frankenstein.” The object is to create the worst player possible by taking some of the worst individual skills of major leaguers. One might start with the foot speed of Bengie Molina. It would be hard to imagine worse fielding… Read More Why Is Anybody Surprised Johnny Damon Was Waived?
After announcing that his retirement originally scheduled for the end of this season was moving up to today, it is time to give Lou Piniella the send-off he richly deserves. 18 years as a player, 23 years as a manager, three World Series rings; his 1,835 wins as a manager rank him behind only Tony… Read More Goodbye, Sweet Lou…
If you are a fan of baseball, you have no choice but to be happy that Dodger broadcasting legend Vin Scully is not retiring at the end of the 2010 season. LOS ANGELES (AP)– Vin Scully said Sunday he’ll return to the broadcast booth to call Los Angeles Dodgers games next year for his 62nd… Read More Vin Scully Returning For a 62nd Season
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