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Fun With Extinct Clothing
We're sure this happens all the time, but it's still funny when Major League Baseball accidentally slips and posts it. Last night and up until early this morning, you could buy this sweatshirt from MLB.com, prominently featuring the upcoming World Series matchup between the Detroit Tigers and the ...
Four Moments In October
The thing about a Game 7 for your team, we're noticing this morning, is that you forget that you and the people you are with aren't the only people watching it. Every pitch is so intense, every second's pressure so heightened, you lose all perspective: It feels like it's only happening to you. And...
Now That's A Pleasant Way To Spend An Evening
It's 3:30 in the morning, and we have just returned from a night of screaming, biting, man hugs and other general insanity with 20 other Cardinals fans in the enemy territory of Manhattan. We are covered in champagne — seriously — and just about as giddy as a human being can be. The Cardinals are in...
The Fight To Lose To Detroit Ends Tonight
This photo is from the 2004 National League Championship Series, in which Jeff Suppan outdueled Roger Clemens — and laid down a perfect squeeze bunt, for good measure — to send the Cardinals to the World Series, where they went to Boston and ... well, we don't remember much after that....
A Cards Fan And A Mets Fan Discuss Game 7
You've followed your team every day for six, nearly seven months. You've sweated one-run games in May, stayed up until 2 a.m. for the 14-inning marathon in July, cursed rainouts in August and finally felt some release come September and October. This has been your life — not their life; your life — ...
Leftovers: How They Make The Non-Corked Bats
• Making baseball bats is a more fascinating process than you might believe. [Popular Mechanics] • We're not going to comment just yet on Dr. Z and the supermodel making picks on SI.com. We're not ready. [SI.com] • O.J. Simpson ... "fiction" writer. [With Leather] • Brett Favre is right about the NF...
Game 7, The Weirdest-Case Scenario
We thought our brains had processed every possible scenario for Game 7 tonight, up to and including Preston Wilson being attacked by a mule. But New York Magazine's Sam Anderson — an excellent writer, by the way — has come up with one that we hadn't considered, in Choose Your Own Adventure form....
(Trying To Distract Ourselves From Game 7 ... And Failing)
On the whole, we're not big fans of any of the following three things:...
Tommy Morrison's Confusing Confusion
Far be it from us to deny a guy the opportunity to make a living, and we consider ourselves open-minded ... but we had to say, when there's open debate as to whether or not are HIV-positive, we kind of think maybe you shouldn't be boxing....
Sir, Please Allow Me To Retort
The Bills play the Patriots this weekend, and, just for shits and giggles, we present you this video of a Bills fan from last year who would like everyone to know that, in his opinion, the Bills have a more skilled roster and a better coaching stuff than the Patriots....
Blogdome: Fun With Urns!
• Yep, death products. Gotta love 'em. [The Airing Of Grievances] • A great compilation of coach press conference meltdowns. [FanIQ] • Bear Bryant: Jesus. [Loser With Socks] • Julius Peppers, cleaned up. [Bored At Life] • Jeremy Piven is not popular in Illinois, apparently. [The Big Lead] • A refere...
Jeez, Now They're Giving EVERYBODY Blogs
So, longtime commenters, you've probably been wondering why our old friend Captain Caveman, the nom de plum of Matt Ufford, has been quieter than usual around these parts over the last few weeks....
It's Like ESPN.com, But Without All The Trappings
They haven't made an official announcement on their site yet, but ESPN's big new "Web presence" thing has launched in beta form. It's called MyESPN, and it's pretty much what you'd think it be. In fact, it's pretty much like every other customizable Web program we've ever seen. Pick your favorite te...
If Only He Had A Digital Pint
We've made fun of those video game motion capture things before, seeing as they're mostly photo ops for athletes like J.J. Redick (!!!) to pretend their movements are somehow scientific. Well, the creators of FIFA 07 have appropriately mocked this convention in a series of legitimately amusing ads. ...
One Communally Pleasant Night At Shea
We're a fatalist, to be sure, but you could kind of tell matters weren't going to go the Cardinals' way last night when the Cardinals had the bases loaded in the first inning and didn't score. The way the series was turning, if Scott Rolen would have gapped one to clear the bases, the Mets might nev...
We'll Take The Blame For This One
You know, one would think we would have learned our lesson about seeing Cardinals games in person here....
And So, Game Six Is Here
Well, here we are. After a maddening season that involved Sidney Ponson and Larry Bigbie, crazed monsoons, three games against the White Sox that made our souls die and, of course, that final two weeks, our beloved St. Louis Cardinals are one game away from a most improbable World Series....
See, This Is How It Works ... HUGH!
Former "Major League" "player" Mark Littell has designed himself a new piece of baseball equipment, and hey, we're proud of ya, Mark....
Leftovers: Uribe Speaks!
• Juan Uribe explains what happened with the whole Jeep business. [Foul Balls] • Sebastian Telfair, poor police witness. [ESPN] • A new way to increase the effectiveness of hockey goalies. [Puck Update] • Where ESPN Mobile went wrong, and how others will do it right. [Money] • Man, we'd love to just...
Meanwhile, In Detroit ...
This video, shot by a fan from the Comerica Field left-field bleachers just beyond where Maggio Ordonez hit his World Series-trip-clinching home run Saturday afternoon, is yet another example of why baseball is the greatest thing on earth. (At least until the Cardinals blow the next two, which is no...