Between Gwynn going for .400 and the Expos having the best season of their existence, that was a brutal strike to say the least.
Between Gwynn going for .400 and the Expos having the best season of their existence, that was a brutal strike to say the least.
Gwynn was the exception to the SABRmetric rule that, in general, hitters can't really control where they hit the ball. Gwynn turned that axiom on its head — his career BABIP was .341, which is insane, and cannot be completely explained by his beating out groundballs early in his career (Rickey Henderson's career BABIP…
But imagine how awesome soccer would be if after the flop, Croatia got to bean Neymar?
You fucked up, Kyle. Once Dan gets on his soapbox, he's physically unable to get off it.
Hi, Dan.
Go ahead, assholes. Tell us again how "only white people and like seven Indians" care about this issue.
1. Irrational hate is the right of every sports fan and neither you nor Deadspin will ever be able to do anything about it, nor should you.
Who would people take between Harry Caray and Vin Scully? Why hasn't this been some kind of ESPN Sportsnation/Bullshit poll yet?
Why are they playing during Vin Scully's story time? I'm serious. I could listen to him tell baseball stories all day long. The game is secondary. God bless him and God bless Don Zimmer. RIP.
With all due respect, Tom, I think we can all agree that the best inning a pitcher can have is when his first pitch sails into the stands and kills Mike Lupica.
If only there was a way to find out...
I hate the move, but I don't think this post makes a ton of business sense.
He's right. If the public had gotten wind of this, there might have been a few rounds of debate. And, as we've learned, the Braves almost never make it past the first round.
Watch the GIF or video. Now you know what an eephus pitch is. You just learned something! The internet's great.
So what, like, eight travel calls and six double dribbles. Yeah, sweet basketball here. Oh but hey, their dances at the end were cool!
So is this a game with no rules?
Master Sterling is what he wishes his players would call him.
You are old-school is you consider ferries to be showboats