1) It’s time to change the Yankees’ name Given the performance of the the heart of the Bronx Bomber lineup, it may be time to rename them the New York Houdinis. Nobody has ever pulled a better disappearing act than Alex Rodriguez and Mark Texieira. 2) Ryan Howard would be a perfect fit for the… Read More What We Learned From The League Division Series
Easy…Because Albert Pujols is a psycho-killer. Just look at that mask. It’s either that, or he’s trying to be the Jeff Dunham dummy Walter. Either way, neither really deserves your support. (pic courtesy of lostangelesblog)
Sure, I know it’s all about baseball, and I know I just wrote a rant asking this guy to kill himself, which is why after you see this picture, you simply cannot want to see success by the Brewers. That’s right, today brings us a “Hate Brett Favre” double-feature. The worst part is after we… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: The Milwaukee Brewers
Let’s say you are the owner of a Ford dealership, and let’s say you are holding a contest in which somebody has to hit a target with a football in 30 seconds from 20 yards away to win a two-year lease on a Mustang. It would make sense to say “no football players allowed.” It… Read More Steve Avery Gets SKAAAH-ROOOO-ED
Guess what, Red Sox fans…Thanks to the window-peekers at TMZ.com, you have a whole new and far better reason for hating pitcher-turned money-sucking-douchehole John Lackey. Forget about the $15,950,000 salary (which breaks down to $569,642.86 per start or $1,329,166.67 per win). Forget that he led the league in earned runs (114). Forget that he led… Read More It Seems John Lackey Is An Unconscionable Dick
I’m just going to come right out and say it…if you didn’t find last night’s baseball drama to be one of the most exciting things you’ve seen since discount warehouse liquor stores, you either don’t like baseball or you have no pulse. I’m such an old codger that I can remember first-hand the days of… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Post-Season Preview: A Look Back at Yesterday and A Look Ahead To October
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
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
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