Category: Baseball

  • TGIF

    okay, it\’s friday, and i know something is off-kilter because i just found myself rather enlightened by an interview with jason whitlock.  kill me now. (**editor\’s note:  alex just sent me the same link, saying [basically] the same thing.  we ate too much spam as children.  carry on.) back in minneapolis after a two-day tour…

  • adios, harold

    in case you\’ve missed it, baseball tonight has fired \”analyst\” harold reynolds for unnamed reasons. i catch BT occasionally, and always found harold to be the least obnoxious of the former players providing insight.  (this is not a difficult achievement, given his competition includes the likes of john kruk and jeff brantley.)  deadspin commenters have…

  • josie\’s on a vacation far away / come around and talk it over

    that\’s right. the outfield. specifically, the outfield of the minnesota baseball twins has changed dramatically over the past 72 hours.  to wit: the humidity is starting to get to jason kubel\’s knees  light-hitting lew ford gets sent to the DL for straining an oblique muscle.  no word on whether this occurred while he was ironing a shirt…

  • Dan Serafini

    Oh good grief. Found the following link via Deadspin, for the record: http://serafinisays.blogspot.com/2006/07/dont-believe-half-of-what-you-see-and.html Gotta hand it to that crack staff at the Good Neighbor. I\’d seen a few of his comments at Deadspin, checked out his blog, and gotten a chuckle that anyone, anywhere, would name anything after Dan Serafini. Did I ever think for…

  • a vast right-wing conspiracy

    a.j. pierzynski. you know him. unless you\’re a fan of the chicago white sox, you probably don\’t like him. GQ once rated him as the 9th most hated athlete in sports. a.j. himself has said that: \”I get booed everywhere. It doesn\’t matter to me, I just laugh at it. The only place I don\’t…