A classmate to me: Yeah, I hear you're a big baseball fan. You've been looking at a lot of baseball things in the past few days, haven't you ( Read more... )

[The children of Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin tell a story about how, one year, their fathers] drove down to Kerrville, Texas, like they did each year to hunt in this guy's woods. So Mick goes inside to ask permission, and the guy says, "Sure, I'd be honored, but could you do me a favor? I've got this old mule out back that needs putting down, ( Read more... )

Man. So I dropped $300 on semester books today with still another class to buy texts for, then browsed for an obscenely expensive digital camera, so really, it's fitting to mention here that I still desperately want the Yankees to sign Carlos Beltran ( Read more... )

Thanks to 6-4-2: A's may be sold within next 90 days. Last night, when I started screaming OH GOD OH GOD OH MY GOD to ghostrunner via IM (check the log, man; that's what I sounded like), that was one of the first things she guessed about and ;ifulkjgh.

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"As least now I know they didn't get rid of me because they didn't like me," he said. "I guess they ( Read more... )

Bigass AP photos from the conference introducing Tim Hudson for Atlanta today. (1, 2; thanks to ghostrunner for the heads-up.)

( Yes, I know, that shirt is painful )

Few things in my life are as wonderful as hearing boys bitching about baseball at 9AM in the morning when there's snow outside on the ground and finals breathing down our necks ( Read more... )

ghostrunner: You know, I blame [Kevin Brown] and Kenny [Rogers] and Andy for my sudden interest in goofy, tall southern guys who always look vaguely irritated or zoned out.
ghostrunner: AND who are probably all too old for me.
ghostrunner: There are plenty of these types at [name of school], let me tell you.
ghostrunner: I had a "count the people who look like Roger Clemens" day and came up ( Read more... )

All right. All right. A month later, I've sufficiently recovered from my frothing, furniture-destroying rage bitter Yankee fan rage to appreciate this:A friend of the GBs was recently on tour in Japan with Boston punkrockers The Dropkick Murphys. They were tearing shit up during their show at Tokyo's Liquid Rooms, where the crowd contained almost ( Read more... )

Why I love the East Coast more than I love the Midwest, part #473920 ( Read more... )

petitio: . . . man, if Billy Beane does get Jason Kendall from the Pirates for Redman and freakin' Arthur freakin' Rhodes?
ghostrunner: Honestly
ghostrunner: HE IS CLEARLY SUCKING SATAN'S [censored]
Yes, I know, I know. Thirty one year old catcher with a heavy contract, OBP mostly as a result of BA and not actual patience, slugging percentage that is kinda painful for somebody ( Read more... )