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Bored Baseball Players Victimize Teammate With Gum-On-Hat Prank
This is what happens when it's August and your team has a 13-game lead in the division. ...
Cal Ripken's Final Game At Yankee Stadium
The fifth home game at Yankee Stadium after 9.11 was Cal Ripken Day. Here's my scorecard. The game ended in a 1-1 tie, called due to rain. It was a cold, miserable day. I remember seeing cops on the roof of the Stadium behind the lights. They looked like prison guards....
Here Is The Dumbest Paragraph You'll Ever Read About A-Rod
It's taken some time, but we've finally gotten there: the single dumbest thing you've ever read about Alex Rodriguez and the Biogenesis case. Our captain is Christopher Gasper at The Boston Globe. Our vessel is this column crucifying the "Pinstripe Pariah" for being allowed to play while he appeals ...
Here's Alfonso Soriano Celebrating A Home Run He Didn't Hit
This looks like a home run celebration—you always save the bat-toss-transitional-slow-trot-skip for home runs—but it is not a home run celebration....
Chris Sale Goes Berserk On Cooler After Bad Outing
The Texas Rangers battered White Sox starter Chris Sale for eight earned runs in seven innings Friday night. After leaving the game, Sale did not take things well....
Rajai Davis Has A Magic Cap
Baseball and collision physics, man....
Confused Hawk Harrelson Gives His Best Home Run Call
In the 12th inning of last night's White Sox-Royals game, White Sox third baseman Connor Gillaspie sent a shot deep into right field. After watching the ball clear the fence but carom back onto the field of play, White Sox play-by-play man Hawk Harrelson was unsure about unleashing his signature hom...
Ryan Braun Apologizes: "I Have No One To Blame But Myself"
As expected, Ryan Braun has issued a statement formally apologizing for and explaining his use of PEDs. Per Ken Rosenthal, here is a portion of that statement:...
This Interactive Graphic On MLB Payrolls Is Amazing
You may want to wait a bit before checking out Phil Roth's wonderful little tool that allows you to explore baseball teams' payrolls, because you'll be there a while....
Rockies Coach Lectures Young Phillies Fan Before Giving Him Baseball
This is sweet as all get-out....
MLB Still Can't Get The Biogenesis Documents It Wants
This week, Porter Fischer, the disgruntled Biogenesis employee responsible for the scandal first hitting the media, turned over company records to a federal grand jury. Records, it seems, that MLB investigators were unable to obtain, and may now never get....
Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Age 66, Played All Nine Positions Last Night
The Spaceman's still going, man. Baseball's most famous old hippie again made a couple of appearances with the independent San Rafael (Calif.) Pacifics this week, nearly one year to the day after he tossed a complete game for them at the age of 65. Far out....
Jayson Werth Reacts To Super-Slow Pitch As If He Saw A Ghost
By the time Jayson Werth came to the plate in the fifth, he had already homered, and the Nationals had already chased Cubs starter Jake Arrieta. And that's when Carlos Villanueva snapped off a breaking pitch that was clocked at just 57 ... miles ... per ... hour. It's safe to say Werth never saw it ...
This Is The Worst Column About Yasiel Puig Until Later Today, Probably
Here is CBS's Scott Miller, overtly injecting the cultural stereotyping that's lain just beneath the surface of the "hot-blooded Latino" Yasiel Puig reprimands that have shitted up the internet this week:...
Great Players Who Never Had A Great Moment
There have been great players who never had a great moment; men who went on year after year, running up formidable statistics, but were no more fearsome than anybody else in the few, crucial moments of their careers. They popped up or flied out in key at-bats, or did not even fail that spectacularly...
Jason Heyward Will Be Out A While With A Broken Jaw
When you've opened up a 15-game lead in the division, as the Braves have, playing out the string is all about not getting hurt before the playoffs. Mission not accomplished. Jason Heyward took a fastball to the face, and will need surgery on a broken jaw that could have him out the rest of the regul...
Johnny U Or The Mick?
Would he rather be a Unitas or a Mantle? That's the question Ralph Wiley asked in this 1983 Sports Illustrated article on John Elway:...
Max Stassi Took A Fastball Off His Chin
It has been a rough day for baseball players' faces. Wednesday afternoon, Jason Heyward took a 90-mph fastball to the face. A few hours later, nearly the same exact thing happened to Houston's Max Stassi with the bases loaded....