Thanks for the memories, Hideki Matsui. We’ll never forget how you were such a weirdo that you drew a picture of your wife to announce you had gotten married.
Why have umpires if they can’t get this type of call correct?
(via Twitpic)
Always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise they won’t go to yours.
Last year, I played around in Photoshop, changing Jeter’s eyes and mouth for A-Rod’s, and vice versa. This afternoon, I got to wondering what Derek Jeter would look like if he grew a beard. A Jason Motte-kinda beard. Ten minutes of scrappy Photoshoppin’ later…
Did Babe Ruth call his shot in the 1932 World Series? Either way, there’s some amazing footage (fairly recently emerging, I believe; this compilation is from 2008) that shows that, regardless, the Babe taunted the hell out of the Cubs as he trotted around the bases.
My quintessential Jorge Posada memory
As Jorge Posada prepares to officially announce his retirement, I look back on the catcher I grew up watching.
Mariano Rivera is 42 years old today. Still the best, amazingly. (photo via Anc516; h/t on the birthday to River Ave Blues)
The baseball playoffs: It means nothing
A must-read send-off to the first round of the playoffs that asks much bigger questions about what the playoffs, fandom and baseball itself mean.
You tell yourself it means nothing. You look at the stats, and the history of the divsional era postseason and you know that being the best team in the regular season means nothing. Of the sixteen World Series since 1995, the best team has won only three times. The worst team in the playoffs has won twice…
Curtis Granderson is the Yankees union representative. So, of course, he’s chatting with the Orioles mascot about their labor deal.
(via Curtis Granderson And The Orioles’s Mascot Shared A Moment This Afternoon)
Jorge Posada, playing 2nd base, in GIF form.
What $82.5 million of sub-par quality looks like.
76 years ago today, Babe Ruth retired.
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