Opening Day Means It’s Time For A Crotch-Punch Story
With the start of the 2011 baseball season just a matter of hours away, it behooved me turn your attention to a couple things: 1) the Wall Street Journal wrote one heckuva feature on Arizona’s bullpen catcher and “human garbage can” Jeff Motuzas, 2) The D.C. Sports Blog followed up with a brief but killer spotlight on Motuzas’ clubhouse partnership with the Nationals’ Opening Day starter Livan Hernandez, and c) there is no “c.” The first two were numbers, remember?
The Teachable Moment You Don’t Care About
If you were a baseball ump in last year’s playoffs, or were related to a baseball ump or cared about the umping business at all, then 2009 just wasn’t your year. It marked the loudest cry for different umps, more umps, more “My Humps” on the jukebox, more ump replays and robot umps.
Another such ump flub happened Wednesday night in Game 1 of the ALDS, but you won’t hear about it because it involved the Yankees and they don’t deserve our tears.
More Ugly Than Usual In Cincinnati
I know living in Cincinnati isn’t fun. Nick Lachey is the city’s biggest celebrity, for Godssake. Living in Queen City is libel to make anyone cranky. But crikey Cincinnati Reds, what’s gotten into you?
Stephen Strasburg Added To Miami Heat Roster
As first reported and orchestrated by ESPN, the Washington Nationals have agreed in principle to send rookie phenom Stephen Strasburg to the Miami Heat in an unprecedented swap that will send three future second round NBA draft picks to the MLB franchise. Although details of the agreement have not been finalized, Heat officials have said they plan to start the 6’2″ pitcher at PG and figure out how the hell to incorporate his pitching skills “sometime later this season.”
Vuvuzela Horns Distract … Well, Everybody In Florida
“It was awful, awful. I can’t tell you how awful it was,” said outfielder Cody Ross.
It makes sense for you to assume Ross was referring to having to play in front of only 450 people for most home games, but in fact you’d be wrong. Actually, Ross was decrying the fact that his home field was too damn noisy.
It’s those vuvuzelas. They done crossed the ocean. And no one is happy about it.
