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The Tomato Nation Fall Classic II: Cruz-ing
October 25, 2011 – 11:03 AM | 6 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic II: Cruz-ing

The TN Fall Classic II still needs your help! As of this writing, we’ve done a good bit — $1,001 — but we’ve still got 4K to go. Japan really got put through it this …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic II: Ham Fighters
October 16, 2011 – 12:05 PM | 7 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic II: Ham Fighters

Last year at this time, we raised money for an organization called Pitch In For Baseball. You can read more about them here, but PI4B collects and delivers baseball equipment and uniforms for and to …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Aw(esome)
January 16, 2011 – 10:08 AM | No Comment
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Aw(esome)

The Tomato Nation readers have done it again:
Happy New Year!
Thanks seems to be a bit of an understatement. Pitch In For Baseball is ever so grateful to the followers of Tomato Nation for the generous …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Winter Meetings
December 29, 2010 – 9:49 PM | 2 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Winter Meetings

If you thought I’d forgotten all about the TN Fall Classic, well, I’ve got news for you: I…kind of did. Okay, not really, but other things (the studio, the N Candy AA, the painting project …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Last Ups
November 5, 2010 – 2:24 PM | 3 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Last Ups

Last day of the TN Fall Classic — if you haven’t donated yet, and you can possibly spare a few dollars for Little Leaguers in Uganda and college kids all over the country, please please …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Closers
November 3, 2010 – 10:12 AM | 7 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Closers

Hello, friends! As of this writing, a mere $5,362 is left until we hit our goal. Great work!
The Fall Classic will remain open until Friday at noon ET, so if you’d like to donate this …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Extra Innings
October 31, 2010 – 9:10 PM | 8 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Extra Innings

Micronaut Stupidhead, taking a break from using fun-size boxes of Milk Duds as maracas. On behalf of NASA, he’d like to thank you for your generosity over the last few days: only $5,728 left to …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: CHARGE!
October 29, 2010 – 11:11 AM | 12 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: CHARGE!

“Hey, guys. Master Stupidhead here. Aunt Dodo says you only have three days left to raise $6,145. Dodo says that money could help send kids to college, or buy catcher’s mitts for kids in India. …

The World’s Series of Base-Ball 2010: Discuss/Vent
October 27, 2010 – 3:15 PM | 47 Comments
The World’s Series of Base-Ball 2010: Discuss/Vent

I have no idea how to call the Series this year. I want to say that it’s a short series so pitching becomes more important blah blah, but I have trouble calling it for San …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Call to the Pen
October 25, 2010 – 11:10 AM | 15 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Call to the Pen

I need some help from you guys on a few things.
I need you to watch Terriers on FX. All y’all Donal Logue fans will eat it up, and it’s a good show besides that. I’d …