This Pig AIDS Aggression Will Not Stand, Man [Wake Up Deadspin!]

The Cajun Boy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:30:53 EDT

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ESPN caught this Toledo fan sporting a "Fuck Swine Flu" t-shirt during The Game That Would Not End last night in the presence of Santa Claus, who's apparently lost weight (Maybe he has the pig AIDS?!) and wears shades to night games. Colorado was a four point road favorite going into the game against a team that went 3-9 in the MAC and got half-a-hundred dropped on them. It's going to be another long season in Boulder.

In other sports news from late last night, the Dodgers and the Rockies both won, so the Dodgers maintained their 2 1/2 game lead in the NL West, while the Rockies have a 5 game lead in the NL wild card race. Also, Derek Jeter defiled the memory of Lou Gehrig by passing him to become the Yankees all-time hit leader with 2,722 hits, leaving him, at 35 years old, only 2,034 hits away from Pete Rose's Major League record. On a related note, how the hell do the freaking Yankees not have a single player in franchise history with 3000 hits?!

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Now I'm posting this video of my pals from Better Than Ezra performing "This Time of Year" in Shreveport this past July because it's a college football Saturday in early fall, and this is a song about weekends in the early fall, so there. Sadly, the video cuts off shortly before the end of the song, but its overall quality is surprisingly good. Enjoy.

Hit Me With Your Best Shot; Fire Away [Baseball]

Rick Chandler — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:45:40 EDT

We apologize in advance for the analogy, but it's clear that Major League Baseball has gone into the beanball wars with no exit strategy whatsoever. Things came to a head on Sunday with five ejections in the Rockies-Giants game — including both managers — after four beanings. Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti was even tossed for throwing his pitch counter onto the field in a fit of pique. But he should count himself lucky; Barry Bonds didn't play on Sunday. Had Bonds been on the field, Righetti would have been tackled by stadium security.

The Giants' Matt Morris was tossed in the first inning — by a Triple-A replacement ump, no less — for plunking Eli Marrero. The umpiring crew had reportedly been on high alert due to the feud between Rockies' pitcher Jose Mesa and Giants shortstop Omar Vizquel. Mesa hit Vizquel on Saturday. As usual, baseball is leaderless on this issue. Umpires are being put into a position where they have to read the players' minds to gauge intent. Pitchers can't work inside without fear of running afoul of some ill-defined beanball rule that seems to change from game to game, and batters have to check the Barnes & Noble best-seller list to figure out who is likely to throw at them in any given week. One rule we'd like to see instituted immediately: Instead of an automatic ejection for the manager, the second beaning in an inning should include an automatic ejection for Bud Selig, with the loss of one day's pay, for failing to establish uniform hit-by-pitch rules. Though ejections are always fun to watch, and we wonder who would be in charge of escorting him out.

Mesa-Vizquel Feud Escalates [Cincinnati Post]

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This Pig AIDS Aggression Will Not Stand, Man [Wake Up Deadspin!]

Hit Me With Your Best Shot; Fire Away [Baseball]