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Yasiel Puig Flips Bat After Home Run—<i>Oh Shit, It's Staying In The Park</i>
Yasiel Puig thought he connected on a two-run home run, awesomely flipped his bat and broke into his home-run trot only to realize the ball might not actually leave the park. So then he dialed the awesome up a notch....
Yasiel Puig Does The Worm
Here's Yasiel Puig celebrating a division-clinching win over the Diamondbacks with a pretty solid effort on the worm. He's having too much fun. Bench him! ...
Yasiel Puig's New WWE-Style Entrance Music Is As Absurd As You'd Hope
I'm obviously not going to argue for this as a great song on merits, but if any player should have a ridiculous custom entrance theme that wouldn't strike you as at all out of place as the walkout music for the WWE champion it's Puig, and this does the job just fine....
Yasiel Puig Pulled From Game For Taking His Sweet-Ass Time
What unwritten rule did Dodgers rookie/conga line dancer Yasiel Puig violate this time, leading to a mid-game benching and a round of paroxysmal I-told-you-sos from our nation's baseball columnists? Actually, this one's pretty justified....
Where Yasiel Puig Comes From
A couple of months before Yasiel Puig announced himself with three hits and a game-ending Scud missile launched from the warning track in right field in my hometown of Los Angeles, I found myself in his: Cienfuegos, Cuba....
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:...
Yasiel Puig Gets Put In Time Out, Still Manages To Be The Hero
A bad day for Yasiel Puig turned into a very, very good night. Benched after a dugout meltdown and fined for being late, the Dodgers phenom came on as a sub and homered on the very first pitch he saw to put Los Angeles on top....
Heroic Yasiel Puig To Assembled Media: "Fuck The Media"
Before today's game at Marlins Park, the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig cut right to the chase regarding his thoughts on the people who write about him....
Yasiel Puig Initiates Launching Sequence, Throws Out Marlon Byrd
Puig was unable to record the out on Justin Turner's little flare to shallow right in the second inning in Los Angeles, so he just mowed down Marlon Byrd foolishly attempting to advance to third instead. Watch more angles—it looks like he's throwing a golf ball from his ear—and listen to Vin Scully...
Yasiel Puig Made An Incredible Catch Of A Foul Ball
Obviously, this doesn't count as a catch, what with the ball bouncing off a wall at Wrigley Field, but it's a damn impressive effort by Yasiel Puig....
Oh Look, Here's Yasiel Puig Juggling A Baseball With Cristiano Ronaldo
This post was supposed to be about how Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, in L.A. for his team's preseason, baddy flubbed the first pitch at last night's Yankees-Dodgers game, and somehow was gifted a second pitch. But fuck all that. This post is about Yasiel Puig....
Yasiel Puig Makes Sensational Catch
Just the latest from the nightly highlight reel that is Yasiel Puig's rookie season with the Dodgers. In what was a nine-run game in the eighth inning, here's Puig running from somewhere near Montreal to take away extra bases from J.P. Arencibia, and a likely run from the Blue Jays. That's not a bad...
ESPN Reports Some Stupid Shit About Yasiel Puig
My stars! Yasiel Puig used his interpreter to try to pick up girls, and it was "not the first such occurrence," Pedro Gomez tells us darkly, citing "a source." But wait! It gets worse! Puig also failed to show proper deference when greeting Luis Gonzalez, according to Gomez, who on this count is me...
Yasiel Puig Not Named To N.L. All-Star Team (Yet)
Baseball, more than any other sport, is a gold mine of stupid arguments with no clear winners. Whether Yasiel Puig is an All Star is just the latest opportunity for people to yell at each other....
Grumpy Hater Jonathan Papelbon Doesn't Think Yasiel Puig Is An All-Star
Everyone loves Yasiel Puig, because Yasiel Puig has done nothing but be completely awesome since being called up by the Dodgers one month ago. Everyone except Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon, that is, who thinks that it would be "a joke" if Puig made the National League all-star team....
Yasiel Puig Is Now Catching Baseballs Hit Toward His Teammates
For a week or so, it seemed like we couldn't go more than a day or two without mentioning Dodgers rookie sensation Yasiel Puig. He makes great throws! He hits home runs! He even takes fastballs off his face! But then Puig seemed to go quiet, even though he's still batting .425/.462/.712 and has mana...
Yasiel Puig Is The Inspiration Behind A New Grindcore Band
OK, so I'm not sure if you can really call these guys a band, as they have only released one 48-second song so far. Still, the members of Puig Destroyer are big fans of Dodgers phenom Yasiel Puig, and they aren't afraid to express their appreciation of his skills as loudly and proudly as possible. ...