You might think this is a picture of a Major League Baseball game from decades ago and you would be wrong. This game was between the Washington Nationals and the San Diego Padres just last Saturday night when both teams put on their throwback unis. What gets me is if you can’t do it right, why …
Tag Archive: major league baseball
Jun 06
What’s going on with baseball?
There’s something fishy (no pun intended of course) with this picture. Something is going on with baseball. From the Sportress of Blogitude: And the skeptics said Major League Baseball wouldn’t succeed in south Florida. According to the box score from yesterday’s game, the attendance was 13,208 at Sun Life Stadium for the big matchup …
May 27
Who’s hit the longest homeruns so far in MLB?
It’s always interesting to recap who is hitting homeruns in Major League Baseball. The obvious question then, is who has hit the farthest long ball of the year so far? From MLB: Today’s game may have few players, if any who haven’t already done it, who can hit as many as Killebrew’s 573 home runs, …
May 20
The difference between a World Series team and the Texas Rangers
I wish I could just embed these videos, but you know, they belong to Major League Baseball and they don’t like to embed their videos, but if you will hit the links you can clearly see the difference on about the same kind of play to end the ball game in each game last night. …
May 18
Wake up call: The Giants return to the scene of the crime
You remember opening day in Major League Baseball right? The San Francisco Giants were playing the LA Dodgers in LA when Giants fan Bryan Stow was beat up for wearing a Giants jersey? Well guess what? The Giants are back in LA tonight to start another series with the Dodgers, and this time, there are …
May 12
Marketing 101
From Ben’s Biz Blog The San Diego Padres recently announced a new partnership with TaylorMade Golf, highlighted by a piece of ballpark signage that is anything but par for the course: an 88-foot R11 replica driver along the right field foul pole. What a great idea if you are a minor league team looking for …
Mar 11
Sometimes, baseball just makes no sense
So you go to bed at night thinking the world will at least stay on its axis until you can wake up the next day. I couldn’t sleep for some reason and got on my computer at 3:30 AM and the news came all the way in from left field. (Pardon the pun) Rangers’ part …
Jun 18
Stay In School, Kids (And You’ll Be Smarter Than Any Major Leaguer)
From Deadspin The Wall Street Journal has discovered that out of all current Major League Baseball players and managers, only 26 have four-year college degrees. 26! And only three of those know how to calculate VORP. [WSJ]
Apr 21
Be nice to umpires, they take lots of abuse
So I’m watching the game between the Rangers and Bluejays when this accident happens. The umpire gets hit by the barrel end of a swinging bat. Ooohhh, that had to hurt. The medics came out and wheeled him off, and our prayers go with him. (UPDATE) From the Dallas morning News: As for …
