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 trading… Read More The Baseball Trading Deadline – The Shark Week Edition
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?
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
One of the purely beautiful things about live sporting events is the things that cameras capture. For example, it seems that Red Sox fans have finally found a way to unearth a more productive left-handed bat than David Ortiz. Sure, he’s green, slightly crusty, and sticks to the end of your finger, but…wait, never mind.… Read More Green Things Invade the AL East
If you haven’t guessed by now, this blog is less about which teams I love; it’s more about why your team sucks. Granted, I’m certainly not alone when it comes to a hatred of the New York Yankees. But I had a special sort of bile-spewing, eyeball-popping rage for Hideki Matsui. If I ever needed… Read More Getting Over the Hate
Rankings By Division: American League: AL East: 1) New York Yankees Upside: The Bombers easily could have turned on the money-hose and flooded out free-agents like Jason Bay or Matt Holliday, or they could have wasted some serious dough by resigning an over-valued Johnny Damon. But, instead of having their usual explosive cash-gasm, they realized their in-house options are… Read More The 2010 Dubsism Major League Baseball Pre-Season Rankings
For all of you who, like myself, despise the New York Yankees, feast your long-suffering eyes on this: That’s right…that’s the grandstand of the old Yankee Stadium being turned into so much rubble. The stadium where the hopes and dreams of so many non-Yankee teams have died a slow, painful death can now watch the… Read More Porn Only Wishes It Could Excite You As Much As This Does
Naturally, the reason the question is even being asked is because of the uniform he is wearing in the above picture. Anybody who dons the Yankee pinstripes is automatically assumed to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Concomitantly, they tend to be dramatically over-rated. When they are also represented… Read More Why Is Anybody Surprised Johnny Damon is Still Unsigned?
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