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ESPN Clumsily Promotes Miguel Cabrera As Lefty With Botched Photoshop
Eagle-eyed reader Dan spotted this during last night's SportsCenter, during which the WWL promoted highlights of the Nats-Tigers game with this graphic of Stephen Strasburg and Miguel Cabrera. Notice anything wrong? ESPN magically turned the league's best hitter into a lefty....
Andrelton Simmons Is Good At Baseball Tricks. His Teammates Are Not
Remember that old Nike commercial in which Tiger Woods did that awesome bouncing-ball trick? You know, the one that every kid within 15 miles of a driving range spent the next two years trying to duplicate. Well, a few Atlanta Braves players recently tried to execute a baseball-themed version of the...
Panama's Gabriel Torres Takes A Cross To The Jewels
Panama forward Gabriel Torres tried to put his body on this first half cross in the Gold Cup final. And he succeeded, just not with the part of his body he might have wanted. (Fox using this sequence as the outro to its halftime montage was cold.) h/t to @KingHarris_ [Fox]...
In The Boom Boom Room
Dip over to Salon and dig the most gifted Jennifer Egan:...
Tim Hudson's Ankle Wasn't The Only Thing Broken In Queens Last Night
Freddie Freeman's foul tip smashed the plexiglass shielding a camera at Citi Field last night. We will never get tired of these....
Tim Hudson Suffers Gruesome Ankle Injury, Taken Off Field On Cart
Tim Hudson was cruising against the Mets tonight until Eric Young brought an end to his night and, possibly, his season....
Miguel Cabrera Tries To Force-Feed One Of His Teammates
A sore hip flexor kept Miguel Cabrera out of the Tigers' lineup last night, so he had to find other ways to keep himself entertained. Did he read a book? Bust out his iPad? No, he tried to shove a cookie into Brayan Pena's mouth. ...
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The WWE Needs Better Wardrobe People [NSFW]
The Bella Twins have apparently been part of WWE for almost seven years. You'd think in that time, they'd find outfits that don't leave nipples exposed for minutes at a time. That is, unless the slip was intentional....
Jason Heyward Makes Diving Catch To Save Game Against Mets
With two outs and two men on base in the bottom of the ninth of a 2-1 game, Mets pinch hitter Justin Turner hit a tailing line drive to left-center. By the time the ball makes its way into the outfield, Andrew Brown is rounding third and Omar Quintanilla is already at second. If Heyward—who began t...
Chris Davis Hits Record-Tying Home Run
Chris Davis hit another home run Sunday, his fourth in as many days. He now has 37 on the season, which leads the league and ties Reggie Jackson's record for most home runs before the All-Star break. ...
Baseball Blogger/Waitress Claims Melky Cabrera Left Her A Shitty Tip
Getting away with bad tips is harder and harder with the prevalence of smartphones. One way to guarantee you won't get away with it as a baseball player is by leaving a bad tip for a baseball blogger....
Mets Try To Honor American Indian Culture, Upset American Indians
The New York Mets, a baseball team that does not possess a cartoonish mascot named Chief Wahoo or a fanbase that likes to do the Tomahawk Chop during games, has somehow managed to piss off an American Indian nonprofit organization. And it all went down in the Metsiest way possible....
B.J. Upton Shits Out A Double, According To Typo
The Associated Press would later correct its caption on this photo of B.J. Upton's fourth-inning double against the Marlins, but not before the original version was published verbatim in at least two outlets: ESPN's game HQ and on the website of the Aiken (S.C.) Standard....
Bob Nightengale Is An All-Star Of Pearl-Clutching
Poe's Law, PED edition—Take a look at this lede, and just try to convince me this is real outrage and not a parody of concern-trolling:...
Miguel Cabrera And Chris Davis Are Chasing History And Each Other
It's July 1, the effective halfway point of the season, so it's time to take notice of what could be the American League's closest and most historic race. Miguel Cabrera has his batting eye on the first ever back-to-back Triple Crowns in baseball history. In his way is Chris Davis, himself right on ...
Miguel Cabrera Hit A Home Run Into The Ray Tank In St. Pete
A few hours after Fernando Rodney gave Miguel Cabrera a dose of some sweet chin music in the 10th inning Saturday night, Miggy deposited this solo sh0t into the Rays Tank at Tropicana Field Sunday afternoon. It leveled the score at 1-1 in the fourth inning Sunday....
Player Who Was Not Born When Chipper Jones Was Drafted Pays Tribute
#Braves Teheran: "The last inning, I was trying to get 10 K’s – Chipper Jones’ number.” (He struck out the side in his last inning for 10)...
How To Make Kebabs, Because You Like To Stab Things And Play With Fire
You dusted off your crummy charcoal grill way back in April, and by now, through all the contrived family gatherings that are really just flimsy pretexts for playing with fire, you've already run through your basic repertoire of grilled foods: chicken thighs and chicken breasts and steak and lobste...