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Nolan Ryan punch photo a smash hit with fans
Earlier today I caught an ESPN.com article about the absolutely insignificant event that was Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura speaking to one another this weekend. Who knows, maybe they even shook hands! You see, Ryan plunked Ventura 19 years ago and the 26 year-old White Sox third baseman charged the mound. The 46 year-old Ryan [...]
Class act: Texas Rangers unveil statue for Shannon Stone
Away from the glittertastics of the Miami Marlins ballpark opening on Wednesday night – a spectacle that seemed more fitting the Vegas strip than the stateside opening of the MLB season – a few teams got it right during their respective debuts today. My Mets and their PR folks did well by Gary Carter with [...]
A Mets fan’s note to his future self
Dear Me: Hey, what’s up jackass? How’s the season going so far? It’s me. Or you. Depending on how you want to look at it. Whatever the case, I’m coming to you from the past. Why? Because I care about you, me us, and our sanity. And because I know you’re an idiot — at [...]
Old man Moyer making a run at history
I’m 34 years old. Back in 10th grade, I had a stress fracture in my shoulder from pitching and catching…constantly. It still hurts. Side note: high school coaches…after your teenage pitches five or six innings, don’t put him behind the plate and ask him to throw runners out. It typically it ends poorly. More recently, [...]
The Miami Marlins home run machine thingy
The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Those who have spent the last few months dreaming of how the Miami Marlins home run contraption would come to technicolor life, wait no longer. Drink it in, Marlins fans. It. Is. Breathtaking. My only question: why shooting water streams on only one side of this stunning [...]
Tribe = Sexy darkhorse pick
Before Cecilio’s Scribe’s noodle flipped when he heard that a certain terribly inaccurate, dreamy, pious, bruising, earnest, lousy, great, ex-Florida Gators QB was headed to his favorite NFL team, the LOCG staff was kicking around ideas in our virtual office/staff meeting. I e-mailed how the Tribe was one outfielder away from World Series contention. Cuse’ [...]
New York Mets 2012: Meet the mess indeed
Let me get this out of the way. I know the Mets are going to suck for awhile, and I’m fine with that. It’s how it has to be. This is what rebuilding looks like. As mentioned time and again, my faith in Sandy Alderson is unwavering. Waiting until 2014 for relevancy is a cross [...]
Oh Manny: Ramirez and how things change
I’m having trouble reconciling this Manny Ramirez signing with the A’s things. You see, this goes back awhile. I’ve written about it before. Ramirez was something to me long before Manny was ever being Manny. I continued to follow him as he grew into the slugger that some had predicted he could be back during [...]
Kate Upton teaches MLB stars the circle…change
Kate Upton dons the cover of this year’s SI Swimsuit issue that hit stands this week. Boooring. Personally, we prefer her in less expected and more casual environments. The cover of SI is nice and all, but how about her role in the new 2K Sports commercial for their MLB 2K12 game? In this intellectually [...]
Jeremy Lin Leads Knicks Past Jazz
We’ ve shared here recently that Mike D’Antoni is not our favorite coach. You can add talent evaluation to the list of our complaints about the Knicks head man. Why? Well, Jeremy Lin of course. This is what we wrote a week ago in pondering the dream of what could have been had the fall [...]
