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Highlights and lowlights from the 2010 MLB season.
Tony Phillips, the former utility grinder, once famously said, “In baseball, after 162 [expletive] games, that what you are. You don’t need more games.
–…the game won’t ever be the same as it was in 2010 - ESPN
Doc does it, no hits the Reds. 104 pitches, 79 strikes. Only three 3 ball counts. Gives up one walk. Has an RBI and scores a run. Oh, and only the second postseason no-no in history and his first postseason start. Is there anything he can’t do?
I doubt there will ever be another one quite like Pete Rose. One was quite enough.
Tulo strikes out. I think after you have one of the greatest Septembers in MLB history, you are entitled to shatter your bat when you strike out, an out which leaves your team out of playoff contention, and then stab the remaining shard of the bat into the batters box.
Ahh Fenway Park, you really are a beautiful and quirky monster. Quirky you ask? From how many major league parks can you hit a home run and shatter someone’s rear window?
Now that’s a souvenir.
Now it is done,” Red Smith wrote in The New York Herald Tribune. “Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again.
– Bobby Thomson, 86, Dies - Hit ‘Shot Heard Round the World’ - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Mickey Hatcher, the hitting coach for the Angels, has one of the most awesome baseball cards I have ever seen. According to Wikipedia: “Hatcher was famously portrayed on 1986 Fleer and 1991 Upper Deck baseball cards with his ‘giant glove’ which he often used for pranks or when participating in Family Day activities.”
This card clearly does not belong on the list of the 30 Worst Baseball Cards of All Time, though there are some really amazingly terrible cards on that list.
It seems like all baseball fans believe in a little magical thinking. Last night one young Phillies fan sitting above the dugout starts to put a hex on the massive right hander Jonathan Broxton as he comes in to try and close out a 9-6 lead. Before every pitch, he casts his hex, as the TV cameras keep cutting back to him.
The hex seems to start working and so the kid steps it up a notch.
And then Carlos Ruiz hits a walk off double. The look on the kid’s face is priceless, almost as if he is thinking: “I wonder what else my hexing power would work on.”
Sun sets on a ponderous season. Next year.
If the rumors were true, I wonder if he would have been happier taking that job as baseball commissioner instead.
Will Ferrell doing his Harry Caray impersonation during the Home Run Derby. He is an Angels fan of course.
The old cup (with gum) on the hat prank. Clearly the White Sox pitchers were throwing well.
The cup stayed on there for quite a while.
The magic knuckleball.
What a crazy sport. How did this happen in the space of less than 24 hours?
If you have to get ejected, do what John Russell did and get ejected by the entire crew.
Intense devotion to the national pastime at the Supreme Court is not a new phenomenon. In 1973, while the court heard arguments during the National League Championship Series, Justice Potter Stewart passed a note to Justice Harry A. Blackmun that exhibited a nice sense of proportion.
This Bench Belongs in a Dugout (Slide Show)
“David Adamo’s “Untitled (rite of spring),” made up of baseball bats laid head to handle, is part of “Greater New York,” a survey of little known and emerging artists at MoMA P.S. 1.”
– NYTimes
Buehrle welcomes in the new season with spectacular between-the-legs bang-bang play at first.
2K Sports announced today that they will give away an unprecedented cash prize in the amount of $1,000,000 to the first person who throws a verified perfect game in Major League Baseball® 2K10, the next iteration of the popular Major League Baseball® 2K series, prior to May 2, 2010.
I wonder how many more perfect games we’d see if the real pitchers were handed a check for a million dollars at the end of a perfect game.