Great article on Bryce Harper: http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/sto...ls-bryce-harper-wants-change-baseball-forever
I was just going to link to a similar story, because I really like what he says about baseball being a tired sport. I think some of the unwritten rules are amusing and add a charm to the sport, but others are just stupid. I'm totally with Harper regarding the Paplebon incident; if you don't want someone showboating around the bases after he jacks a home run, don't throw him a softball to crank. I think Pablebon's retaliation was petulant and childish. But back to it being a tired sport, I'm inclined to agree. I think part of the problem is that cadre of baseball writers who've been covering the sport for 40 years or more and are firmly stuck back in the olden days in terms of what the sport ought to be. Because you know it's all those crusty old fuckers who'll rail about the "sanctity of the game" or other nonsense whenever any player tries to make it more concurrent with modern culture. All those old farts need to hang up their pens and retire.
I like Jason Heyward. But, um. Gif #2, totally normal (even subdued) reaction to a been swarm. Gif #1, wtf? If you get 3 feet higher, the bees won't get you?
The general Cardinal fan reaction has been "I hope the traitor is allergic and dies". The best fans in baseball. If that was me you would be seeing some serious pantomime karate. I would be FREAKING the hell out. Fuck that.
Met some co-workers at the hotel bar here in Kansas City and ran into a blogger who was in town for a conference on, I think , baseball writing. She has a blog wherein she writes about numerous things, one of them baseball: http://tomatonation.com/ We hit it off pretty quickly once she mentioned her love of baseball. I must have 30 or 40 books on baseball at home, and love reading about the game. Nice woman, and we had an interesting conversation.
Red Sox name Travis Shaw as starting third baseman http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...aseman/ar-BBrbgxu?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout Sandoval and his $95M starts the season on the bench. Raise your hand if you're at all surprised by this development.
Ill take "Things that happen when you show up to camp even more overweight than normal and then blatantly lie about your conditioning and body fat percentages" for $500 please.
How the fuck could you have that kind of life and be that stupid and weak? All that money, all that stardom and access to the best training and he's fucking fat. He looks like Colon, or Cecil Fielder, but he's not. He's on the hot corner. Boston collectively (as a team, business and fan base) must be pissed to high hell.
He had a hell of a collection of baseball cards. Key word "Had." http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/all-star-s-famed-card-collection-slideshow/ss-photo-1335319938.html BTW, those are all rookie cards
Looking to move overweight 3rd basemen (Yawkey) http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/fod/5517965742.html Overweight Third baseman for sale or trade. 5'11 290. Willing to eat most or all of current contract. Willing to hear offers from National league teams, American League Central or West, independent leagues, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean leagues, Any South American or Carribean Leagues, and Most Co-Ed Softball leagues. Warning: offer to eat the salary of the contract does not include cost to feed this man. Take at your own risk. Also if you have a daughter, please take the extra steps to block him off Instagram on her account before adding to your current roster. Would also trade for a used car (rust is fine, doesn't need a steering wheel), a goat (in which I can flip to the Cubs), partially used Marlboro gift cards (I still owe Jim Leyland), or someone to volunteer to teach Moncada English.
MLB Rave: Headed to the ballpark shortly! Woo! Go* Braves! MLB Rant: *The Braves are going to suck so bad in 2016.
Apparently Cano is healthy again. After his 3 HR's on Easter, he just homered on his first AB of the season. EDIT: So did Bryce Harper. Rush is probably headed for a consoling beer only 3 batters into the season.
Freak luck. 1 hit, 3 walks, 2 errors, and the M's are down 3-2. EDIT: Fuck me. Texas gets 1 fucking hit and wins 3-2.