- IF Josh Hamilton was black, would hack writers like Jay Mariotti still fall over themselves to salute him for coming clean?
- CAN the Red Sox get back on the horse at home against the Tigers tonight? Brad Penny's pitching, so no, they can't.
- WOULD you be surprised if the Giants sweep the Dodgers and tighten the NL West a whole lot? Don't be, the Giants are ridiculously good at home (38-18).
- IS this the year the Rays finally win a series in Anaheim? They haven't done it since 1999, when they were still called the Devil Rays and actually 'paid' Aaron Ledesma to 'play' 'baseball'.
- I shaved my balls for this?
Some quick, end-of-the-day announcements and whatnot to satiate your needs: (1) there will be no podcast again tonight so that we all can recover from the 82 hours we spent watching the Red Sox and Yankees over the weekend. (2) Dan McQuade is, without a doubt, the greatest guest-blogger in the history of forever and I wish someone out there would pay him to blog regularly. (3) Keep those tips coming, I promise I use them, really, I do.
Stay tuned for tomorrow, when we get back on this bucking bronco we call baseball-blogging and maybe post some of our own licking-whipped-cream-off-of-skanks photos. Same WoW channel.
(Nifty AT&T Park photograph courtesy of dpup on Flickr)
The funniest thing I saw on the internets today was The Big Lead calling Mariotti a clueless shit stirring hack.
I guess it takes one to know one.
Tigers + ESPN = Automatic ShitShow.
Enjoy getting back on the winning wagon, Boston fans!
Above pic can only be viewed while wearing 2 long-sleeved shirts and a fleece.
Alex Rios traded to the White Sox in exchange for a bag of jack shit.
Salary relief is the new PTBNL.
Man, you think the Blue Jays would've gotten something in return for Alex Rios... like a slurpee, maybe...
Should somebody be checking on Drew right now?
Jordan Zimmermann to get Tommy John'd, miss 2010.
HAPPY NATS DAY
/drinks self to coma
That sucks, MDT, because the Nats were totally going to win the World Series in 2010 and now will have to settle for just the pennant.
I'd have settled for watchable but there just went our best (signed) young pitcher, so... good luck with that
On the bright side, I won't get confused when someone refers to a Zimmerman on the Nats.
You got greedy with the third set of quotes around 'baseball'. Aaron Ledesma would be so ashamed.
I have pics of Icarane licking cool whip off of Catshirt if anyone wants them.
I almost attacked Kevin Stocker until I realized he was actually kinda sorta good in '99.
Entire "Career Highlights and Awards" section on Kevin Stocker's Wikipedia page: "Was traded by the Phillies to the Devil Rays for Bobby Abreu in 1997."