Tag: baseball

  • I Need a New Zoo With Roy Sweatshirt, Right?

    I keep appear­ing on his bolg in my So No hood­ie. I think it also sad­dens the pen­guin to think about how bad­ly he was MLBPA’d.

  • Let’s Talk About MLB Winter Meetings, Okay?

    Noth­ing quite as excru­ci­at­ing as watch­ing your team lose a star out­field­er to a sor­ry team with­in the divi­sion — for unrea­son­ably big bucks, mind — while watch­ing them hap­less­ly pur­sue bar­gain bin replace­ments like Jeff Fran­coeur, Matt Diaz, George Sher­rill and Den­nys Reyes. Would’ve been adding insult to injury if we tried to add…

  • The Dead-ball Era Philadelphia Phillies

    The base­ball off­sea­son tor­ments me. While I appre­ci­ate the post­sea­son awards — con­grats to Roy Hal­la­day on his Cy Young Award — I find my thoughts turn to the likes of Ed Dela­han­ty, Sam Thomp­son, Gavvy Cra­vath and Grover Cleve­land Alexander. For­tu­nate­ly, I have com­pa­ny. My friend and cowork­er Dan McQuade of Philadel­phia Will Do…

  • Goodbye Playoff Beard

    I start­ed grow­ing this beard the day the Phillies clinched the NL East. Sure, I jumped the gun a lit­tle bit, but when I look back on last year’s scrag­gly play­off beard, I’m glad I did. Now I look like this. Loved the beard, but I’m feel­ing human again.

  • I Love Roy Oswalt

    Now that it’s sunk in that our sea­son’s over, all I can think about how much I love Roy Oswalt. Why? Because he was an absolute stud down the stretch. Because he accept­ed play­ing sec­ond fid­dle when he’s an ace on most staffs around the league. Because he played left field! To top it all…