The Diamond Dude by Ogden Nash ( Read more... )

"I'm not the best player, but there are intangibles I bring to the clubhouse and to a team that are just as important as the stats on my baseball card." [kevin millar]

i know he just did NOT let the word "intangibles" cross his cretinous lips.

THERE IS ONLY ONE POSESSOR POSSESSOR OF INTANGIBLES IN THE AL EAST, SIR!

THE CHEESE STANDS ALONE

first skeletor huddy, then kleenex box head mulder. poor little barry.

"I told [mulder] I'm going to rake him when I face him,'' Hudson said with a laugh. "We already have a bet about which of us hits the first home run.'' [sf chronicle]
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God To Professional Athletes: ‘Please Stop Pointing At Me’HEAVEN--In an unusual and unprecedented move, God, Creator of the Universe, publicly demanded that professional athletes stop pointing at him when they score a touchdown, hit a home run, dunk a basketball, or perform other athletic feats. God explained that pointing is rude and that a ( Read more... )

found in the comments section of an rj-ish bronx banter post:

If Johnson does join the Yanks, I hope they give him #36, as a favor to all those people whose navy Nick Johnson t-shirts are growing stale in drawer bottoms throughout the tri-state area.
Posted by Murray at December 17, 2004 01:40 PM

so. welcome, randy? mazel tov? i guess? if i ( Read more... )

i'm sure everyone's heard the latest rj conjecture. my feelings on his acquisition are essentially the same as they were in july. as it stands, if it goes down, i will vomit up my intestines, go into a weekend long coma, and when i wake up, root for whoever's in pinstripes.

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stumbled across this in a nyyfans thread on bad baseball announcers:

Fox Sports -- you know how, every time you cut to Derek Jeter and he's standing around in short left, chewing his bubble gum or adjusting his cup or doing a little infield-dirt housekeeping with his foot or just generally minding his own shortstoppy business out there, you ( Read more... )

"The real laugh," said one AL exec, "is that [the sox] tell Lowe they don't like all his drinking and partying and then they go out and sign David Wells for two years!" [daily news]

karen is the bizzity bomb.


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