Baseball season is drawing near; by the end of this week Minnesota Twins pitchers and catchers will be in Ft. Myers for Spring Training. This the most awesome time of year for baseball fans, because this is the time of year where everybody has hope. If you are like me and a long-suffering fan of… Read More The Deep Six: Questions For Minnesota Twins Fans
Obviously, this is a follow-up to my original post on this matter. Yesterday’s decision to strip the Jackie Robinson West (JRW) team from Chicago of it’s U.S. title came as a complete surprise to me, because I thought for sure there was no way Little League International (LLI) was going to kill it’s “feel-good” story… Read More So…If You’re Going To Cheat in Little League, At Least Be Smart About It
This past weekend, baseball lost a true legend with the passing of Ernie “Mr. Cub” Banks. I really can’t say more than has already been said in terms of eulogizing this larger-than-life baseball icon, but I can say how Mr. Cub taught me a lesson I would use throughout my life. I’m of such an… Read More RIP, Ernie Banks
You have to admit, it makes sense reading this story on the blog which has been home to the Jamie Moyer for the Hall of Fame campaign for close to five years now. Before we go any further, we aren’t talking about the “big” Hall of Fame in Cooperstown; the Seattle Mariner pitcher headed there… Read More Jamie Moyer Finally Gets Into The Hall of Fame…Well, Not That Hall of Fame
Try not to let that headline shake your faith in humanity. I know it’s hard to admit that something as innocent as Little League baseball might be fraught with corruption. In case you didn’t realize it, that was pure sarcasm. Every year, I watch the Little League World Series if for no other reason that… Read More Apparently, There’s Cheating in Little League and Nobody Cares
Every athlete has a moment when they have to make some decisions. That moment is now for Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston. The first decision he needs to make is obvious. Will he or won’t he enter the 2015 NFL draft? Winston is now three years removed from high school, which makes him eligible to… Read More Things Jameis Winston Needs To Do…Today
15) The College Football Play-off and the ESPN-ization of Bowl Games There are two words to describe how we got this four-team playoff to determine the college football national champion. Television Money Don’t even try to deny that. Sure, you can point out that we really aren’t adding any games with this play-off, which is… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2014
It’s become a tradition here at Dubsism to bring in the New Year by taking a look back the old one. Every January since this blog was created, we here at Dubsism have given an award for achievements during the previous year in some under-recognized categories in the world of sports. In prior years, the… Read More The Sixth Annual Dubsy Awards
To understand this latest J-Dub/SportsChump collaboration, you need to know that the exceptionally Floridian SportsChump is a recent convert to the religion known as hockey fandom. To most, the idea of ice hockey and Floridians seems as natural a mix as Navy Seals at a Tupperware party, but it actually isn’t that strange if you… Read More Point-Counterpoint – J-Dub and SportsChump on the Growing Popularity of the NHL
This is another installment in the Sports Blog Movement series which takes a hard look at certain instances, or specific seasons which would make sports fans cringe in horror and pain, or expands on that to take a hard look at the long-suffering fans of franchises who have tortured their supporters for decades. The episode… Read More Tales of Depression and Sorrow: The Los Angeles Angels
This post may sound like it belongs on Turtle Boy Sports (which is an awesome read, by the way…), but what I saw on my television this morning literally made me spew coffee across my living room. I’m watching my local morning news during which CBS News does a two-minute cut-in with a “headlines of… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: CBS News Uses Ferguson Riots to Inject Race Into Little League Baseball
Thanks to the Discovery Channel, Shark Week has become a phenomenon. It completely escapes why they haven’t partnered with the Sharknado people, but that’s a topic of another day. Last year, there was such a dearth of trade deadline moves in baseball that I skipped my annual Shark Week Trade Deadline comparison. That is certainly… Read More The 2014 Baseball Trading Deadline – The Shark Week Comparison
Back in his first stint at the World Wide Bottom Feeder, back in the days when Bud Selig had yet to seize complete control of baseball, Keith Olbermann used to refer to him as “Acting Commissioner for Life.” As much as Olbermann is the definition of “smarmy ass-hat,” he was absolutely right. But now that… Read More The Write-In Campaign: J-Dub for Major League Baseball Commisssioner
Picture the opening scene of the 1989 baseball classic “Major League.” Tom Berenger’s character Jake Taylor is awakened from a night of debauchery in a Mexican motel by a phone call. He fumbles to pick it up, mutters a couple of “uh-huhs,” and then the tirade comes. “Goddamnit…Is that you, Tolbert? This isn’t funny! I’m… Read More Get Your “Major League” Jokes Ready – There’s A REAL Jake Taylor
To be honest, this question was posed on Dubsism two years ago by myself and Dick Marple, the Chairman of the Dubsism Advisory Board. You can see the original post here, but since then, the numbers we examined have only gone up. The one thing that hasn’t changed is the over-arching question. I know that… Read More Is Derek Jeter The Greatest Yankee Ever? REDUX
As promised, the former Sports Blog Movement feature Sports Doppelgangers will live on here at Dubsism. Having said that, this doppelganger is a bit more abstract than usual, if for no other reason than you really have to picture some things in your mind to make this one work. First, head down to your local… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 63 – Keeping Alexei Ramirez Away From the U.S. Navy Might Be A Good Idea
By J-Dub and SportsChump J-Dub: I’m probably going to regret this collaboration. This is what SportsChump considers flattery, Besides, I don’t swear nearly as fucking much as he thinks I do: I have a friend. His name is J-Dub. He’s kinda weird, an ornery fellow if I may. We’ve never officially met, but he runs… Read More Divisional Renaming: A SportsChump-Dubsism Collaboration – Edition One: Major League Baseball
What do women’s college basketball and a high-school baseball field in Michigan have in common? In today’s episode, J-Dub talks about how the idea of “fairness” really has us all missing the point when it comes to athletics. Sports is the one true meritocracy left, but that is being assailed every day, and J-Dub explores… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 3 – Social Marxism and Sports in America
One thing that is true about the blogosphere, and one of its greatest things overall, is the fact that you can find a list for just about any topic. This is the parlance of Listverse, which is honestly one of the best sites anywhere. This is why we here at Dubsism have a long history… Read More Five Arguments For and Against the Existence of God and Their Equivalents Concerning Jamie Moyer as a Hall of Famer
Every January since this blog was created, we here at Dubsism have given an award for achievements during the previous year in some under-recognized categories in the world of sports. In prior years, the nominations for the awards were done exclusively by an internal committee, but we’ve had so much success allowing nominations from the… Read More The Fifth Annual Dubsy Awards
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