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Life As A Mets Fan
You kind of have to hate yourself to be a New York Mets fan. You're second-tier in your own city, your team is always just good enough not to be awful but bad enough not to be good and your stadium is right next to the freaking airport. This torture is brilliantly realized in this post from Mets b...
MLB.com Eats Itself
The inherent conflict of interest at MLB.com is consistently amusing. Those who work for MLB.com are:...
Children Lose A Little Minor League Power
Sad news from the minor leagues: The Kansas City T-Bones, the Northern League team which announced it would allow schoolchildren to play the first two innings of a game in August on a video game, have been thwarted in their plan. Northern League Commissioner/Killjoy Mike Stone said the game had t...
Wily Mo Pena's iPod
Cincinnati Reds outfielder Wily Mo Pena is one of the hottest young prospects in baseball, in addition to having a wonderfully wacky name. He also has rather curious taste in music. According to the great Reds web log Red Hot Mama, when Pena comes to the plate at Great American Ball Park in Cincin...
MLB Makes You Work Hard For Their Money
From the useless junk on MLB Auctions department comes this gem: For $1,640 (and counting), the Chicago Cubs will put your ass to work. If you're the winning bidder — auction closes on Friday — you will be "allowed" to work on the grounds crew at Wrigley Field in August, when they play the rapidl...
Pinella Officially Just Sets The Season On Fire
It's now pretty much settled: Devil Rays manager Lou Pinella has lost his mind. According to the St. Petersberg Times, Pinella is going to start the rest of the D-Rays games with a reliever, with a starter to take over in the third inning. He's not kidding....
Today In MLB Blogs
Today's quiz: Which has more long-range potential — any recent Jason Alexander sitcom pilot, or The Roid Room, the latest entry over at MLB Blogs? The young Republicans over at MLB Blogs must love their latest tenant. While Tommy Lasorda is saluting himself over on their flagship blog, Roid Room ...
Today In MLB Blogs
Occasionally we like to take a scenic carriage ride through MLB Blogs to soak in the landscape:...
There Is No Slumming For Rickey!
From the always amazing (and always anonymous) satirical site Yard Work, a diary entry from Rickey Henderson's tour with the San Diego Surf Dawgs....
The Return Of Barry Bonds
After almost a month away from us, elusively beefy Giants outfielder Barry Bonds has finally given back to his fans on his online journal. Touted as the way Bonds could communicate with his real fans without that bastard media bothering him, Barry hadn't had much to say to us for a while; the site...
Major League Baseball Is Incredibly, Massively Cool
We think it's incredibly cute when sports people decide to hold awards show. NASCAR has been doing this for years, most hilariously, with a bunch of dudes spilling chaw on their tuxes. The ESPYs are pretty much the pinnacle of this; nothing could possibly beat Tiger Woods in a tuxedo trying to be ...
Jeter, A-Rod Exchanging Blows. This Time It's Not In A Gay Way
We were all waiting to see when Yankees gay icons Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were going to finally have a lover's spat. According to Radar Online — who would know, we suppose — it happened last week. The report, attributed to a TV producer who apparently gives his/her scoops to Radar rather t...
Today In MLB Blogs
You remember Curt Smith — he was one of George H.W. Bush's most prolific speechwriters. You've probably been walking around town quoting Smith lines for years and not known it. There was the memorable time Bush said, um ... and the time he talked about ... er ... that thing ... ah ... Well, just t...
Giants Fans Desperately Want To Get Crabs
In 1984, the San Francisco Giants, back when the team was terrible and the sports information was wacky, introduced the Crazy Crab, a satirical mascot meant to skewer the concept of a mascot all together. The notion was that Crazy Crab was an anti-mascot, one that would take the abuse of fans fru...
Rogers Holds Them, Then Folds Them
You've probably seen the video by now of Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers going after two cameramen before yesterday's Rangers-Angels game. Rogers was sent home right after the game, and the cameraman, Larry Rodriguez, was sent to the hospital....
Today In MLB Blogs
One thing we've always wondered about MLB Blogs: How far is too far? Will they censor one of their members for posting a bunch of dirty jokes, or photos of a bare-chested Tommy Lasorda? What exactly gets you kicked off MLB Blogs? We can't see their terms of service unless we actually sign up for a ...
Today In MLB Blogs
If weblogs are the new journalism, then what the hell went awry over at MLB Blogs? You'd think that people paying $4.95 a month for a weblog would be more into it, but alas, there's not much action here. Let's go to the statistics. For the month of June, the first 10 featured sites on MLB Blogs' ...
Maryland's Great Fake Farters
The Bowie BaySox, the double A minor league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, are celebrating the birth of our country in the way our dad probably would, if he owned a baseball team: By farting. The BaySox, on July 4, are attempting to break the world record for fake flatulence, handed out whoo...
John Rocker's Next Career (Hint: Kip Winger's Involved)
Last night, the Long Island Ducks released former Braves cattlehand John Rocker after Rocker said he needed to "take a step back" from baseball. It is not known if Rocker is going to try to peddle his wares elsewhere, or if he will look for a second career....
Today In MLB Blogs
OK, here's the thing. Baseballs are plentiful and relatively cheap. So why do people become village idiots when one is batted in their direction? We've seen fathers elbow their young daughters out of the way in order to catch a foul ball at a major league game. We've seen men knocking over the eld...