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Worst home-run call in MLB broadcasting
June 6, 2007 – 8:42 PM | 67 Comments

I can’t decide whose home-run call is worse: John Sterling’s (“IT is high, IT is far, IT iiiiiis…GAHN! Home run, [player name]!”) or Michael Kay’s (“Track; wall; see ya!”). Forced to choose, I would vote …

We interrupt this broadcast of Meathead Idol to bring you…
May 24, 2007 – 12:35 AM | 18 Comments

…the latest in Yankee-related headlines from SI.com.
I pop over to the site to see who won the Yanks/Sox game and find that Schilling got smacked around out there. Sweet.
But when I read down, I find …

MVP
May 22, 2007 – 10:31 PM | 57 Comments

I don’t know the guy, obviously; for all I know, he reads Wordsworth and is a member of PFLAG. But if we’re talking physical presentation, I challenge you to find me a bigger meathead than …

Ah, day baseball
May 16, 2007 – 3:28 PM | 4 Comments

My mother tipped me off that the Yanks had a game today; it does make the Leaning Tower of Worksa slightly more bearable, in theory.
I notice that Torre dropped Abreu in the order, finally (this …

Recs Du Jour: “It Wasn’t THAT Funny” Edition
May 8, 2007 – 2:24 PM | 26 Comments

Stuff that made me laugh over the last 48 hours:
1. Russian performance art with cats. My favorite part: “A few minutes later police arrived and arrested them together with a few cats as a clue …

Roger that
May 7, 2007 – 11:07 AM | 23 Comments

Clemens is coming back to the Yankees. This is, in my opinion, good news. My opinion of Clemens as a person is not the highest; when he accepted accolades and standing ovations during his “farewell …

Recs Du Jour: Amusingly Screamy Edition
May 1, 2007 – 1:53 PM | 20 Comments

1. So, I go into the TN dashboard, see who’s linking to me, click on a link to some shteez called Yummy Turtle, and start reading a really long entry involving a) the author’s Hobeyesquely …

The most elegant and colorful sport
April 27, 2007 – 8:50 AM | 6 Comments

Lance Mannion, in the midst of discussing David Halberstam:

One of baseball’s great beauties is that it is played at the speed of a human voice’s ability to keep up. It’s the only team sport that …

The Vine: April 25, 2007
April 25, 2007 – 10:46 AM | 21 Comments

Dear Sarah,
I was born and raised in St. Louis until I left for college, and one of the things that I left with was an undying loyalty to the 2006 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals.
Sorry, …

Cheer up, sweepy Jean
April 23, 2007 – 9:58 AM | 30 Comments

BSD and I always bet on the season series between Boston and the Yankees; I think I won last year, but it’s not looking good for ’07 after the Bosox completed a sweep of the …