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The Placement Of That Pitch Has Vexed Me, Sir. Now We Shall Wrestle


It's not really a classic baseball brawl until a tubby Don Zimmer is thrown to the turf, but this'll do. It happened on Thursday at Safeco Field: After the Rangers' Kason Gabbard tossed a fourth-inning delivery at the Mariners' Richie Sexson at face level, Sexson charged the mound and clocked Gabbard with his batting helmet. Benches emptied, and a pileup occurred near the mound. Then, as you've seen countless times in Zorro movies, Sexson crawled out from underneath the pile as everyone else continued fighting above. Here's the video. More »

10:40 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By rickchand
9,995 views, 76 comments

Latest by ReggieDunlop: @Rbastid: An unknown Seattle pitcher hit an unknown Texas batter int he previous inning. I say unknown because it doesn't really matter with these two teams. And I live in Seattle. more »

the dark side of the locker room

Sparring With Carl Everett

Being a sports reporter is, at times, an absolutely horrible job. Sure you get to watch games, travel, and interact with athletes, but there is a horrendous downside. (Which is pretty much everything else.) And this is never more disturbingly clear than when a reporter has their first (or 50th ) awful experience with a half-naked, exhausted athlete. Sometimes they'll be openly dismissive, sometimes they'll yell, and sometimes, well, they'll fart in your face. Most of these stories never end up in the newspaper the next day. So now, Deadspin proudly presents "The Dark Side of the Locker Room" where current and former sports writers can share some of their most distressing interactions. If you've got your own story to share, please send it along to ajdau1@yahoo.com.

This week's tale comes from former Dallas Observer reporter John Gonzalez, who shares this run-in with former Texas Rangers outfielder Carl Everett.

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2:20 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By DAULERIO
10,946 views, 60 comments

Latest by Bad Becks: You are both retarded. Carl for being Carl...and the reporter for well, being asking pretty stupid questions to be honest. If you think I'm just saying that...consider the fact that Everett did seem to have some good comebacks as so more »

2008 division previews

Your AL West "Preview"


Well, this is kind of cheating, considering the Oakland A's already played this morning, and lost, but we hope that having 1/162 of the season over already won't make you distrust our predictions any more than you already do. More »

6:01 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Leitch
3,486 views, 23 comments

Latest by shawnkemp40: Ichiro could outhit Vlad with a fucking tooth pick (which appears to be what he's holding in the picture above). Fuck Los Angeles of Anaheim of Southern California of the West Coast. more »

coffee talk with alex rodriguez

A-Rod Talks Wistfully Of The Mets (Really)

The timing could have been better for Alex Rodriguez, who sat down for a soul-searching interview with the New York Daily News on the same day that Jose Canseco was touting a new book, claiming that A-Rod took steroids. That publicity could have been used for damage control! At any rate, A-Rod tells columnist John Harper that he wishes he would have signed with the Mets instead of the Rangers, and that his opt out/opt-back-in drama with the Yankees was due in part to his daughter's fondness for her toys. More »

4:10 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By rickchand
5,465 views, 48 comments

Latest by IchiroSuzukiSamurai: To paraphrase an old Tank McNamara, Scott Boras to A-Rod: are you aware what 5% of your daughter's toys is? more »

daily closer

Those 30-Run Rallies Will Kill You Every Time


Little did you know that when you watched Maracaibo, Venezuela beat the Netherlands, 21-2 in the Little League World Series on Tuesday, that it wouldn't be the most embarrassing wipeout of week. Meet your 2007 Baltimore Orioles, who lost 30-3 to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. For Texas, it was the first time in modern baseball history that a team has scored 30 runs; a total not achieved in the majors since 1897, when the Chicago Colts pounded the Louisville Colonels 36-7. More »

9:19 AM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By rickchand
7,426 views, 87 comments

Latest by jose reyes.the roof: So, since the Rangers did this without A-Rod, does this exist as evidence of the "Ewing Theory"? Professional Red Sox fan Bill Simmons, please respond. more »

insects that don't want the perfect golf swing

A Bug's Life, If That Bug Is Named John Holmes


The world has long pined for the answer to life's perpetual mystery: Is a Rangers-Orioles game more boring than watching flies screw? Well, an astute reader and his friend attended such a baseball game last night, and saw two horseflies gettin' down and procreating. Judging by these two fans' fixation on the happenings atop the safety bar, I'm guessing that the flies win. And did they ever win. More »

4:30 PM on Sat Jul 7 2007
By sussman
4,140 views, 12 comments

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Come Celebrate An Old Man's Victory Lap

Not that any of you were wondering, but this is clearly why Sammy Sosa came back after "retiring:" He gets to make this ridiculous face in front of a stadium full of fans who still aren't quite sure what to think of him. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Jun 21 2007
By Leitch
2,654 views, 113 comments

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Baseball Remains Very Good To Sammy Sosa

As the last smidgen of interleague play fades from our consciousness — and we'll never forget that magical June of 2007! — we lament, for a moment, that tonight's Rangers-Cubs game will be played in Arlington rather than at Wrigley. We would love to see how Sammy Sosa's homecoming to the Friendly Confines would have went. More »

4:45 PM on Tue Jun 19 2007
By Leitch
7,007 views, 678 comments

baseball

Let's Celebrate A Resurrection

The resurrection of Christ is being celebrated everywhere today (my apologies for violating the separation of church and Deadspin, especially to the many Deadspin readers who are proud, Godless heathens), so I thought we'd go in a different direction here and celebrate a couple of other equally-important resurrections: those of Sammy Sosa and Alex Rodriguez. More »

2:00 PM on Sun Apr 8 2007
By mjdeadspin
812 views, 24 comments

baseball

Your AL West "Preview"

All right, last one of the day until tomorrow ... we think this is actually the easiest division to pick, which is why, obviously, we're going to have it entirely wrong. More »

6:45 PM on Thu Mar 29 2007
By Leitch
5,732 views, 681 comments

baseball

Baseball Season Preview: Texas Rangers

You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team. More »

1:45 PM on Thu Mar 29 2007
By Leitch
3,069 views, 30 comments

baseball

Looking Back At Sosa's Halcyon Days Of Yesteryear

Among the worthless — but muscular! — heap of relics from the 1998 Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa home run chase? The priceless Slammin' Sammy: The Sammy Sosa Story, an animated "feature" about Sammy Sosa and "how a hero became a legend." More »

7:00 PM on Tue Mar 13 2007
By Leitch
1,123 views, 14 comments

baseball

Another Reason Baseball Players Shouldn't MySpace

This is CJ Wilson, a reliever for the Texas Rangers, an up-and-comer, a LOOGY, if you will. He also has a MySpace page and is pals with teammate Brandon McCarthy, who also has a MySpace page. They're buddies, along with, as always, an endless supply of buxom blondes who write things like "p.s. you know, there is an upside to being a ranger..the uniform colors resemble a certain superhero you are obsessed with. so if you just ask for your pants to be made tight & if a cape is possible for when you are on the mound, then youre set." Whatever the hell that means. More »

3:00 PM on Fri Mar 9 2007
By Leitch
8,725 views, 83 comments

Latest by Shea Guevara: If you think that pic is bad, you should see Ty Cobb's MySpace page. more »

baseball

Albert Belle, Still Available

It's official, folks, if you can handle it: Sammy Sosa and the Texas Rangers have agreed on a deal. Sosa will receive $500,000 on a one-year contract and will be invited to make the team out of Spring Training. It's good to see that the new Rangers manager Ron Washington is attempting to be realistic about the signing. More »

10:30 AM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Leitch
265 views, 37 comments

baseball

How To Deal With Angry, Suing Fans

Remember that A's-Rangers game from a couple of years ago, when Rangers reliever Frank Francisco threw a chair into the stands and broke some lady's nose? Well, that lawsuit in still going on, and it appears the Rangers are sparing no expense in their quest to discredit the lady's husband, whose heckling might have started the whole incident. More »

2:45 PM on Thu Nov 9 2006
By Leitch
235 views, 40 comments

baseball

Second Half Preview: American League

OK, before we start: Seriously, this is just the worst sports day of the year. Do you realize we did a post below on bowling? Can we please get back to the games tomorrow? What? No afternoon games? Man! More »

5:45 PM on Wed Jul 12 2006
By Leitch
258 views, 55 comments

baseball

Your AL West "Preview"


You know, you wouldn't think it would be that hard to predict the winner of the AL West. Jeez, there are only four teams, after all. Yet we always get this division wrong: We always predict the A's at the wrong time. Which is probably not much solace to A's fans right now. More »

1:30 PM on Thu Mar 30 2006
By Leitch
742 views, 23 comments

baseball

Hank Blalock's Workout Regimen

It's drunken athlete pictures day here at Deadspin. While these can't quite compete with the raw lunacy of plastered "Drink Like A Champion" pictures of the starting Super Bowl quarterback, the glorious ladies at On The DL — big congrats to them on their mention in the Boston Herald, by the way — have dug up shots of the Rangers' Hank Blalock liquoring up with his personal trainer. More »

3:23 PM on Tue Jan 31 2006
By Leitch
1,469 views, 9 comments