RIP Bonnie; a poem about how it works; they were almost the Washington *Yinkees*; bring back bloopers please and thank you
Should the Twins just refuse to participate in the postseason? Did the Nationals winning a playoff series mark the unofficial end of the 2010s? Should we root for the asteroids over this NLCS? Did the Rays pay actors to pretend to be fans? It’s #questionfriday!
Goodbye to the Cubs on WGN ; staggering to the finish line; Thames or Thames: the original gif or gif
An Uber driver has some parking tips; enjoy the baseball while they still baseball; a long overdue reshuffling of the Arizona Fall League team names
It’s not a “stolen” base, now is it?; the legend or myth of Mike’s cousin, the pitcher; an applicant for the Red Sox team president position makes their case
A poem about a joke about a fastball declared to be “boring”; it turns out Airplane! referenced a fictitious baseball game while you had the lasagna; if you can’t put a bird on it, how about a top hat?
The secret best Jeff Jones in MLB history; sleeping on a bullpen meltdown; hahaha, classic Bo Vine
South Bend to Myrtle Beach Des Moines to Knoxville Knocked down to dragged out What the cat dragged in Unconventional rehab A personal matter Highways are busy lately. Player absence How he carries himself Moving around really well May contribute in September That sports figure who shares a name with a poet. Confidence game It…
This past weekend was the ninth annual Saberseminar, held at Boston University. Touting itself as “Sabermetrics, Scouting and the Science of Baseball”, it is a gathering of roughly 350 nerdy baseball types from a variety of backgrounds: physicists, data wranglers, MLB front office guys (and gals) and tech-savvy fans of the game. The event is…
One of the unintended consequences of baseball being a sport of hats is that we can’t really tell if someone is losing their hair. Growing up, the first time this jarred me was seeing David Justice. I always saw him either hatted or helmeted, and the assumption in the back of my formative mind is,…
What’s happening in Miami in the bottom of the twelfth might remind you the teapot was left to boil this morning or you missed a birthday. A cold sweat or bad dream can do the job, but instead let the more pleasant score details be the cartoon slap. The jerseys you’ll observe on vacation out…
Dusty Diamond’s All-Star Softball was one of the more overlooked baseball titles of the 8-bit era. This is an often tossed about adjective for anything that isn’t Mario or Zelda, but I can vouch for its overlookability, since I discovered it about five years ago and now it’s probably one of my three favorite baseball…
So-called artistic production hits the skillet to sizzle but is in fact routine and unmusical When new students were mentioned at the stickball game I asked for their area code and predicted they’d be awful I was writing poetry about the moon and men were calling those poems patriotic Go home and clean your drain…
It was the top of the second when Chick Hafey blooped a middle-in pitch into shallow center, but it was the AL that actually sent one across the plate a few minutes later. Wally Berger and Dick Bartell rounded out the middle of the lineup but it just wasn’t enough: for despite exciting the thousands…
“Every pitch matters; we don’t need loss to remind us. We need grace while the sea resets its shores.”
