Posts Tagged ‘yankees’
The boy has been trained well.
In truth, I didn’t push my love for the Yankees and hatred for the Red Sox all that much. I think he absorbed most of his sports allegiances through osmosis. Or he simply made the most sensible, most logical, most reasonable choice.
Read MoreCurt Shilling is wrong about evolution, but his response to Internet trolls was commendable and enough to make this Yankees fan cheer.
As a New York Yankees fan – as well as someone who supports science and knows that evolution is real – I’ve never been a fan of Curt Shilling. But when Shilling took to Twitter last week to congratulate his daughter on her invitation to pitch for the Salve Regina University baseball team, Internet trolls…
Read MoreBaseball pitchers are cowards. All of them.
Last night Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster threw four consecutive pitches at Alex Rodriguez. The first nearly hit him in the legs. The next two were tight inside. The fourth finally hit him in the elbow and ribs. Your browser does not support iframes. These pitches were intentional. No one debates this. Obviously Dempster is…
Read MoreMost unbelievable trade in the history of mankind. This is not hyperbole.
This is nothing more than a few paragraphs lifted from a Wikipedia article about former major league pitcher Fritz Peterson and his teammate, Mike Kekich. It’s so incredible and unbelievable that it required restatement here. Just try to imagine what it would be like if this happened today. The world would probably explode. Seriously. Fritz…
Read MoreDifficulty staying Faithful
I finished reading Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stephen King and Stuart O’Nan, and while I enjoyed the bo0k, I have a few quibbles with it as well. As a Yankees fan, I knew that reading the book would be difficult. The 2004 baseball season was the…
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