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There Was An Inferior Substitute To Front-Row Amy At Yesterday's Brewers Game
A few weeks ago, the ever-present Brewers fan Front-Row Amy missed a game. Mavens worried for her health, as a framed photograph of the Milwaukee superfan was in her usual seat. Not to worry, though, as she was back for the next game and looking her usual best....
Todd Helton's Heartbreaking Moment Of Staggering Forgetfulness Leads To Walk-Off Loss
It was a bad night for Todd Helton, the cornerstone of the Rockies for 16 seasons, he of the .321 lifetime batting average and 58.7 WAR (good for 11th among active players and higher than Vlad Guerrero, Ichiro, and a slew of others you'd expect to be above Helton). But tonight in Philadelphia, when ...
Joe Maddon Vs. Davey Johnson Is A Great Old Man Fight
"The most boring ejection in baseball history?" No way, man. Davey Johnson and Joe Maddon, two feisty and erudite managers representing the oldest of old and newest of new schools, have moved into their second day of sniping after Johnson alerted the umps to some pine tar on Joel Peralta's glove. Th...
Bristolmetrics: <i>SportsCenter</i> Spent 45 Seconds On The Jerry Sandusky Trial Last Week
When last we met, the Heat got nearly as much coverage as every other sport combined, the NFL doldrums meant the Jaguars were somehow the most talked-about team in football, and the Mets were temporary kings of MLB. What would this week bring? ...
Here's The Rays' 1979 "Throwback" Jersey
Joe Maddon, you're a damn good sport. (Except when you're calling out the Nationals for a "pussy move" when they bring attention to Joel Peralta's sticky, dripping glove.) Any one of your players could have been the model for the 1979 Rays jersey that never was, but you stepped up and threw on that ...
Better Know An Umpire: Greg Gibson
Welcome to Better Know An Umpire, an effort to educate ourselves on the human elements who have ultimate decision-making power over some 2,500 Major League Baseball games a year. (All cumulative statistics are through the 2011 season, unless otherwise stated.)...
Remember: Umpires Are Only Human, Especially When They Trip And Fall On Their Faces
When is a routine chopper that bounces harmlessly down the third-base line before rolling foul worth watching again and again? When the home-plate umpire trying to follow the play up and trips over the catcher's foot, as Derryl Cousins does in the video below. The fun begins at the 30-second mark, w...
The Rockies Go To A Four-Man Rotation
Coors Field is being Coors Field again, with balls flying and batters partying like it's 1999. Despite the best efforts of the magic humidor, numbers are cartoonish and the only proffered explanation is that it's been extra dry in Denver this spring. Whatever the cause, the Rockies can't pitch. They...
Jemile Weeks Saw A Ghost Last Night
Attendance was up for last night's Dodgers-A's game in Oakland, even if most in attendance were Giants fans always up for another opportunity to heckle their rivals from Los Angeles. With Aaron Harang walking eight in just 3 2/3 innings, something was working, and the Athletics walked away with a 3...
The Texas Rangers Are Packing Some Serious Firepower
While in San Diego to take on the Padres, several members of the Texas Rangers stopped by a Navy Seals training facility today to tour the grounds, meet some military personnel, and get their hands on all sorts of battlefield-worthy assault rifles, with a handgun and mortar launcher thrown in for go...
How R.A. Dickey Fixed His Own Glitches And Found One In Baseball
Before the 2012 season started, Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey published his memoir, Wherever I Wind Up. It was the best baseball book I'd read in ages. And now that literary surprise dovetails with a baseball one: Dickey, after back-to-back one-hitters, is pitching better than anyone else in baseba...
Rangers Announcer Dave Barnett To Undergo Evaluation, Will Miss Next Two Broadcasts
Texas Rangers broadcaster Dave Barnett will miss the next two games, choosing to undergo evaluation after suffering a migraine that led to a bizarre sequence during last night's game in San Diego....
Harry Reid To Reporter: "That's A Clown Question, Bro"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a Mormon from Nevada. So is Bryce Harper. He works in D.C. (where he was answering a question from Roll Call's Steven Dennis about some immigration stuff involving Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney). So does Harper (who coined this phrase less than a week ago, al...
Deadspin I-Team: What's The Story Behind Cole Hamels's Giant Bulge?
Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino puts on an annual fashion show to raise money for his foundation, which seems like a pretty neat thing to do. There are models, glitz, glamour, and a lot of Phillies players dressed up in fancy clothes. What a time!...
Better Know An Umpire: Mike Everitt
Welcome to Better Know An Umpire, an effort to educate ourselves on the human elements who have ultimate decision-making power over some 2,500 Major League Baseball games a year. (All cumulative statistics are through the 2011 season, unless otherwise stated.)...
Rangers Announcer Dave Barnett Starts Speaking Nonsense During Broadcast, Claims Go-Ahead Run Is At "Fifth" Base [UPDATE]
The bottom of the eighth inning of last night's Rangers-Padres game from San Diego turned weird during tonight's broadcast on Fox Sports Southwest as longtime broadcaster Dave Barnett appeared to completely lose his mind, claiming a runner was at "fifth" base and then trailing off into a story ab...
The Best Hitter In Baseball Thinks It Should Be A Pitcher's Game
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Joey Votto is fine with everyone else's batting numbers being down....
Roger Clemens Found Not Guilty
The Roger Clemens perjury trial—a trial that was alternately confusing, nostalgic, and soporific, but at all times a giant waste of taxpayer money and government manpower—puttered to a sad and inevitable end today with Clemens being found not guilty on all counts....
Better Know An Umpire: Tony Randazzo
Welcome to Better Know An Umpire, an effort to educate ourselves on the human elements who have ultimate decision-making power over some 2,500 Major League Baseball games a year. (All cumulative statistics are through the 2011 season, unless otherwise stated.)...
Charlie Pierce Destroys An Awful Column Proclaiming Bryce Harper As A Conservative Hero
Last Friday, the Daily Caller published what is truly one of the most insane pieces of sportswriting to ever exist, in which a dumb guy attempts to turn Bryce Harper into a symbol of conservative values and the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, or some shit....