Ichiro!

Baseball is good.

“...president Dean Bresciani...”

Just pick one and stick with it!

Gamers Whine About Game Again.

A Supposedly Fun Essay Topic I’ll Never See Published Again

Y’know, I don’t even care anymore if it makes me a Girl In 2004 With Pink Red Sox Hat, I’m totally bandwagoning with the Cubs for the rest of the year. Actually, I’m just gonna bandwagon with whichever team Maddon manages for the rest of his career.

Amazing that technology lets us hear the game through the ears of Dock Ellis.

It’ll probably get me blacklisted from this site, but I believe in the goodness of amateur college sports, and that no, we shouldn’t pay college athletes beyond scholarships. (BUT, I also believe there should be fully professional junior/minor leagues that can support those who are really in their sport as a career…

Plus all these years that they’ve been horrible, at least they’ve had some (arguably) beautifully classic uniforms to wear while doing it, and last year they had to go and fuck those up too.

Personal anecdote: I (presumably) saw Dennis Green get fired from the Vikings. I was walking through a downtown Minneapolis hotel, the kind with a wide-open lobby restaurant, and the only two people eating there were sitting at a table right in the middle... “Holy shit, it’s Denny Green and Red McCombs!” And sure…

Maybe this is an ongoing conversation in the gaming world, but I don’t get around much, so I’ll ask it here: Isn’t it kind of shady and counter to the spirit of gaming to dig into the actual code of games to try to find hints and secrets and solutions? Is everyone just cool with this?

Reminds me of being at a Timberwolves/Spurs playoff game (so: a long, long time ago), and these teenagers sitting in front of me kept yelling, at the top of their lungs (from the upper deck no less), “YOU SUCK TIM DUNCAN!” Dudes, he’s Tim Duncan. If there’s anything that’s true about him, it’s that he does not suck.…

I’m with you. I was also specifically thinking of the night vision TV feeds from the Gulf War, but then I remembered the Candlestick World Series earthquake was pretty clear in my mind too. I just remember it seemed like the end of the world or something, even though I was a thousand miles away and barely knew what…

First thing I think of is the Gulf War (the green night vision footage of the explosions is pretty vivid in my mind), but then someone here mentioned the 89 San Fran earthquake, and I think that’s definitely my answer, even though I was somewhat old (7) by then, so I can’t believe I don’t remember any before that!

I’d put money on the Seattle Mariners changing their primary color scheme to match the Seahawks and the Sounders sometime in the next couple years. A couple shades of steely blue with some gawdawful radioactive green highlights. That’ll put Seattle alongside Pittsburgh in the city-themed-team-color conversation.

Pittsburgh’s universal black/gold color scheme is one of my favorite uniform quirks in sports. It’s even better when you realize this is the municipal flag of Pittsburgh:

I love the Iceland viking clap, but my immediate reaction after seeing it that first time was, “Oh, great, can’t wait to see every half baked American soccer crowd try to take this as their own.” And sure enough, at my local NASL game on Friday night, the ‘supporter group’ in the corner tried it about 6 different…

Barry, you write for a sports blog. Surely you do this because you understand sports are different than jobs. Otherwise you’d just write for a jobs blog, spilling all the dirt and analysis of the week’s hottest job takes.