For those of you who had Friday, June 11th in the “Day Lou Piniella finally snaps and has one of his signature meltdowns,” please step forward to collect your money. Frankly, given the escalating level of Lou’s blood pressure during those every-day press conferences, you had to see this one coming. As usual, it is… Read More Piniella Finally Pops…You Knew It Had To Happen
Leave it to Chicago to find a way to fuck up anything it touches, like a sports day that should have been a tremendous one in the Windy City. After all, it isn’t every day you get to have a victory parade. But when the time came for Chicagoans to stop celebrating the Blackhawks’ capture… Read More Wrigley Field: A Perfect Site For a Disasters
Last time out, the future Hall-of-Famer looked as such, tossing a complete game victory. This time out was a bit of a different story; Moyer was on the recieving end of an artillery barrage that would have given Edmund L. Gruber cannon envy. Moyer took 40 pitches just to get out of the first inning,… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update 6/11/10
Does Bigfoot need a Bikini Wax? Damn straight America loves this kind of stuff. Why else would we dive into the depths of the bowels of the beast known as the New York Yankees, specifically all the way to their short-season Single-A team, the Staten Island Yankees, for today’s Schadenfreude moment (if you are a… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Does America Love A Potential Sex Scandal?
Doesn’t it just seem right that since we are roughly a third of the way through the baseball season, we would release our third set of team-by team rankings? With each team having approximately 57 games under their belts, there should by now be a fairly clear picture of who the contenders and the pretenders… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: You Gotta Know When To Hold ’em, and Know When To Fold ’em
Due to the aforementioned moving issue, we managed to miss a few starts on Moyer’s march to Cooperstown. However, three of Moyer’s last four starts were well worth missing. Since his last win on May 14th, the veteran left-hander racked up three losses; one seal clubbing at the hands of the Mets, and two of… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update 6/6/10
As I’ve said before, the month of May was one of moving for me. But now that the boxes are unpacked, the computer is rebooted, and I’ve found a reputable electro-shock therapist, it is time to get back to the keyboard. The Umpires Strike Back First, there is the obvious; Wednesday night’s unfortunate prison-raping of… Read More Stuff I Missed That Needs to Be Addressed
We cannot let one of the most important anniversaries in Tommy Lasorda Hating slip by unnoticed. Today marks the anniversary of what Lasorda Haters everywhere call “the Kingman tirade” (rated R for language). It all gets started by some dumb-ass reporter asking a typical dumb-ass question, which inevitably propels Lasorda into channeling Joe Pesci. While it… Read More The Kingman Tirade
Once again, for those of you who have been kind enough to fritter away your time with these rants, I am still in the middle of a move halfway across the country which makes writing on a regular basis problematic at best. Dubsism will be back to full-strength by June 1st; until then I will… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update 5/15/10
Well, all kinds of things are happening here at Dubsism. First, if you are one of the six regular readers of this tripe, you may have noticed posts being less frequent this week. I am in the process of moving, and until that process is complete in the next few weeks, I simply don’t have… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update 5/7/10
Well, we were wrong in thinking Moyer pitched last night. The future Cooperstown inductee toed the slab against the Mets on Sunday night. Moyer got the win and notched two more strikeouts to tie Robin Roberts. More importantly, Moyer took advantage of the shelling laid on Johan Santana by the Phillies. The veteran left-hander used… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update 5/4/10
As you know, Dubsism is now the home of the Jamie Moyer for the Hall of Fame Campaign. As such, we will be running the Jamie Moyer Update so we can all track the left-handers trek to Cooperstown. Moyer went six innings against San Francisco last night, giving up 10 hits and four earned runs. He… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update 4/28/10
10) Michael Jordan Was the Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century You can thank ESPN for this exercise in the power of the present. Back at the turn of the century, the World Wide Leader published its list of the greatest athletes of the 20th century and placed Jordan at the top of that list. One… Read More The Ten Biggest Fallacies in Sports
Hopes for a speedy and complete recovery go out to former major league catcher, current real-life announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers, and greatest movie play-by-play man ever Bob Uecker. Uecker announced today that he will be having heart surgery on Friday. Doctors say his prognosis is good and we can expect to see Uecker back… Read More Best Wishes, Bob Uecker
Tomorrow night, ageless wonder Phillies southpaw Jamie Moyer will be attempting to win his 261st major league game. Moyer notched win #260 last Thursday against Atlanta. I have to admit, it shocked me as well when I read that. In case you were wondering, this is his 24th major league season. Moyer made his major league debut on… Read More Dubsism: Your Home of the Jamie Moyer for the Hall of Fame Campaign
If you are the Chicago Cubs, you thought you’d heard the last of the Milton Bradley drama having sent his ass off to Oakland. Maybe that’s true in Wrigley Field, but a Chicago-area property owner may not see it that way. The latest M-Bomb episode involves a Gold Coast landlord; it seems that during his time in… Read More The M-Bomb Goes Off Again
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. Facilities are important for a sports franchise. You’ve got to have a good building in order to gets fans to buy tickets. Now, if… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath on Target Field
Leave it to CNN to screw up and cause a controversy. It seems as though the world’s first all-news cable network pulled a gaffe of plus-size proportions when CNN’s Headline News, while covering a story about people getting all pissed about somebody making a spoof of a Lane Bryant ad, mistakenly ran the spoof during their coverage of… Read More Does This Mean CC Sabathia Will Get a Speeding Ticket on the Way to McDonalds?
Like most baseball fans, I’m sure my fondness for the players from the days of my youth is not unusual. However, readers of this blog may have detected my tendency to analyze the incredibly kitschy. One of those examples delves into the double-knit nether world that was baseball attire of 1980. But take five years… Read More The “Old School” All-Mustache Baseball Team
Now that we are solidly into the regular season, it is time to take a peek at how wrong my pre-season rankings were. As boring as it may be, most of the teams floated right around their original spots, but there certainly are a few surprises. The Minnesota Twins: Granted this isn’t that big of a shock; that… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The First Look At How Wrong We Were
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