MLB Page 1107 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Rajai Davis Goes Above The Rogers Centre Outfield Wall For A Home Run-Robbing Catch
There's a very good chance you've already seen this play from yesterday afternoon, but I'm posting it here a) on the off-chance it has slipped your attention and b) for posterity's sake because holy shit, Rajai Davis! It was a play some Blue Jays fans say they've never seen before, an outfielder sca...
Felix Hernandez, The Big-Game Pitcher Who's Never Pitched In A Big Game
Since his first full season in 2006, Felix Hernandez has been one of baseball's best pitchers. He's accumulated 34.5 fWAR, which puts him behind only Justin Verlander, C.C. Sabathia, and Roy Halladay. You can also find Hernandez's name near the top of the list in most every other meaningful statisti...
Is This The Worst Play In The History Of Baseball? AJ Pierzynski Scores From First On A Groundout
In the bottom of the seventh of yesterday's game against Oakland, White Sox shortstop Alexei Ramirez hit a grounder to the left side of the infield. Third baseman Adam Rosales and shortstop Cliff Pennington both went for the ball. Meanwhile, White Sox catcher and notable asshole AJ Pierzynski took o...
Let's Play Stack The Cans On The Passed-Out Phillies Fan
It might be one of those summers in Philly for the first time in several years, but don't think for a moment that folks at Citizens Bank Park aren't still enjoying themselves. Some have too much fun. Others know when one more is always a good idea. Then another, and another......
It Sounds Like Braves Broadcaster Joe Simpson Wants To Beat Up Someone On Twitter
A Joe Simpson was arrested earlier this week for DUI. A Joe Simpson is the color analyst for Atlanta Braves games on SportSouth. These are different people, albeit both celebrities in some way. It seems an individual on Twitter mixed the two up, taking the Hollywood Joe Simpson's offense and attac...
It's Official: Watching The Cubs Goes Hand In Hand With Getting Punched In The Balls
Fans of the Cubs have been saying it for years, and while we've always believed it to be true, we never had any actual proof. But there it is....
The Baseballs In College Summer Leagues Appear To Be Juiced
A lot of college baseball players don't go home for the summer. Instead, many make their way to tiny dots on the map like Falmouth (Mass.), Celina (Ohio), DeLand (Fla.), or Quakertown (Pa.), to play in one of a handful of summer leagues....
Miguel Cabrera Can Jump
We told you back in January about the, um, heavy record he's devouring pursuing, but Miguel Cabrera reportedly lost anywhere from 20 to 50 pounds before the season began. And it shows! Just look at him sky for that ball that caroms off the backstop! Chris Stewart never had a chance....
Cubs Trainer Mark O'Neal Suffers Mid-Game Middle Finger Sprain
The Cubs ended an eight-game losing streak last night by dispatching the Reds, but it seems not everybody in the organization was happy. Here's trainer Mark O'Neal telling slugger Alfonso Soriano exactly what he thinks about Soriano's fouling a pitch off right in O'Neal's direction. (Soriano later ...
"I Would Like To Extend You A Counter-Offer To Suck My Dick": A Rejected Jobseeker Sends The Padres The Best Letter Ever
Taylor Grey Meyer estimates that she applied for a job with the San Diego Padres at least 30 times since moving to Coronado, Calif. Initially, in the sales office; but as she was alternately rejected and ignored, she lowered her sights. This past March, she applied for a minimum-wage job selling tic...
Old Man Bobby Abreu Is Heading To Triple-A
Bobby Abreu, designated for assignment by the Dodgers after the trade deadline, agreed today to join the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes. He probably doesn't mind all that much, because he'll still make the $9 million the Angels guaranteed him back in 2009. Maybe he'd feel embarrassed being released f...
Chipper Jones Complained On Twitter About The TV In His Hotel Room, And Someone From The Front Desk Came Up And Fixed It
We thought we were too cynical to ever again believe in sports the way we did when we were kids. We thought we could never unquestioningly adore and glorify an athlete, knowing what really goes on. But then we met Chipper Jones's Twitter feed. Larry, Jr. tweets in backwoods gibberish overflowing wit...
MLB Speeds Up Games By Sending Strongly Worded Letters To Slow Pitchers
Over at Baseball Prospectus, Adam Sobsey got hold of a letter from MLB disciplinarian Joe Garagiola Jr. to Colorado Rockies pitcher Mike Ekstrom. (Click to enlarge.) In two consecutive appearances against the Phillies, Ekstrom took more than his allotted 2:25 to warm up—going over by nearly a full m...
John Sterling Can't Stop Walking Around The Hotel Lobby In His Bathrobe
The Yankees are staying at the Westin in downtown Detroit for their four-game series with the Tigers, and one guest was kind enough to send along this photo of radio announcer John Sterling strolling the immaculate Westin lobby in sneakers and a robe. He's "been doing this for 2 days in a row so it'...
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Fan Of The Pittsburgh Pirates? Prove It By Paying Them Money To Join Their Stupid Fan Club. [UPDATED]
The Pittsburgh Pirates are at last contenders again, but they're still the Pittsburgh Pirates. They finally have fans excited again because they're actually winning. But they're still not above showing some degree of contempt for those fans by offering them something they're calling the Fan Advisor ...
Red Sox Broadcasters Don Orsillo And Jerry Remy Cannot Figure Out How A Lightsaber Works
NESN's Red Sox broadcast team of Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy show up often in these parts, usually due to their inability to hold themselves together due to some wacky fans in the stands. Today's meltdown was self-imposed, as a toy lightsaber that found its way to the broadcast booth (owing to yet...
Jeff Francoeur Helps Himself To A Fan's Popcorn
Forget numbers. This is the difference between Kansas City's favorite .241 hitter on the road versus at home. At home, Frenchy endears himself by sending C-notes into the stands, an encouragement for fans to buy a round of beers on him. But on the road, as you can see in the video below from last ni...
This Indians Ad Parody Is Sad And Brilliant
The poor Cleveland Indians are 50-60, 10 games out of first in the division and 9.5 games out of the second wild card spot. They're not going anywhere this year, even though they entered the season with this triumphant retrospective and a slogan to match: "What if?"...
Roger Bernadina Pulls Off The Season's Most Dramatic Game-Ending Catch
How much more heartache can Astros fans take? Finally, a game in which they were actually competitive and didn't give away the winning run while Benny Hill music seemingly played in the background. No, the Astros suffered a hard-luck loss tonight, putting the winning run on first base in the 12th in...
Eric Chavez Hit His Own Pitcher In The Head With A Throw
]Eric Chavez is a baseball veteran, but it seems he never learned the Little League rule about not throwing a ball to somebody who isn't looking at you. Here he is returning the sphere to his pitcher, Cody Eppley, after its trip around the horn only to have it bonk Eppley right in the noggin....