Year: 2009
MLB Network Adds Today’s Giants-Nats Game … Watch History in the Making
MLB Network has added this afternoon’s Giants-Nationals game. It will be Randy Johnson’s first attempt to get his 300th career…
Read more »Just call him Anti-Yankee Bob! Watson imposes outrageous suspension on A.J. Burnett
I’m spitting mad over A.J. Burnett getting suspended for six games, while the real headhunter of Tuesday’s game, Vincente Padilla,…
Read more »Game Talk – 6/4/09: It’s Too Damn Early – Angels @ Blue Jays
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (26-25) @ Toronto Blue Jays (30-25) Starters: LAA – John Lackey (1-1, 6.05 ERA) TOR…
Read more »Let’s give the kid a shot
Ross Ohelndorf and Mike Pelfrey at 12:35 in the first game of the Andrew McCutchen era in Pittsburgh. One of…
Read more »What’s more startling – A.J. Burnett’s new mustache or the Yankees being fan-friendly?
While I haven’t exactly been thrilled with much of the new Yankee Stadium, from the ticket prices to the atmosphere…
Read more »Creation Rex Is Such A Beast
This guy is Creation Rex, the dinosaur “mascot” of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. The statue of Rex runs a…
Read more »Snowed In
By popular acclaim (read: Derek hassling me about it), we are inducting our first long snapper into the Classic Colts. …
Read more »Today’s Red Sox 6/4 Lineup vs. the Tigers
Dustin Pedroia, 2B J.D. Drew, DH Kevin Youkilis, 1B Jason Bay, LF Mike Lowell, 3BRocco Baldelli, RF Jacoby Ellsbury, CF…
Read more »On Andy Pettitte’s aching back and Chien-Ming Wang being back in the rotation
Updated:Last night’s game was a frustrating slog right from the beginning. Andy Pettitte looked terrible – he gave up six…
Read more »Sore Losers
Everyone is familiar with sore losers. They’re the people who sulk and pout when they lose. They’ll often claim things…
Read more »Links of the Day 6/4/09
Brady Anderson apparently has the internet. The most famous person that ever reads our site is… Beth. Wow. This totally…
Read more »Two States Like Orlando’s Chances Tonight
Via ESPN's SportsNation Poll – Which Team will win Game 1 of the NBA Finals? Go Magic!!!! I'm working…
Read more »Yankee Stadium Nickname Contest
The New York Daily News is running a contest for the best nickname for the new Yankee Stadium. All you…
Read more »NBA Draft Day Countdown Podcast
Updated:With the sixth pick in the 2009 NBA draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves select… Last night Wally World and I were…
Read more »Bloguin Predicts the NBA Finals
Updated:Who You Got? Kudos to Don over at “With Malice…” for doing this series for each round of the playoffs. …
Read more »Mini Pony of the Day 6-4-09
Updated:DUDE, THERE IS A NEWER-ISH BLOG OUT THERE CALLED MINI HORSE OF THE DAY. Not even joking. I swiped this…
Read more »Paw Prints – The Daily Roundup – 6/4
UConn Football links A Feisty And Ongoing Debate Is, Well, Ongoing… [Desmond Conner | UConn Football] Whoa, Wow And Oooh…
Read more »Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks
GolfPGA Tour/Memorial Tournament, 1st round – Golf Channel, 3 p.m. MLB American League Anaheim at Toronto – Fox Sports West/Rogers…
Read more »KG Guarantees Titles in 2010, 2011
Via the Globe: "I talked to [Garnett] and he guaranteed the championship in 2010 and in 2011," Grousbeck said. "He…
Read more »Fred Robbins
Fred Robbins mentions in his blog on Tuesday and Ralph V picked up that Robbins had microfracture surgery. Oh brown….
Read more »Blame the Trade Machine
Our first trade rumor of the season was a pretty goofy one, but it sure sparked a reaction. One reaction…
Read more »Could Patrick Ramsey surpass Vince Young as the Titans’ #2 QB?
Earlier this week, we discussed the ill-timed statements of Vince Young, the embattled Tennessee Titan signal-caller who recently issued a…
Read more »Justin Snow-Classic Colt
Justin Snow, number 48, signed as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2000, Mr. Snow has played his entire career…
Read more »Five shortstops Red Sox could pursue
As Nick Green and Julio Lugo team up in an attempt to break the record for most errors out of shortstop (and we thought Edgar Renteria was bad), it’s time to start looking at outside options.
Green has been a great fill-in with the bat after no one expected him to even get a single at-bat on the year. On defense, however, his lead glove is starting to raise concerns. And Julio Lugo, of course, is Julio Lugo. We’ll get to our internal option, Jed Lowrie, in a moment. But for now, let’s focus on five shortstops the Sox could go after.
Read more »On the Eve of 300
On the eve of Randy Johnson potentially becoming baseball’s 24th 300 game winner, I had the privilege to put together…
Read more »Live Celtics Games on the Web?
Via the Herald: Boston Celtics [team stats] fans could soon have another way to watch their team play – online….
Read more »Kahn and McHale have second meeting
From Jonah Ballow/Timberwolves site: President of basketball operations David Kahn cleared up the McHale-coaching situation after the morning pre-draft workouts.“We…
Read more »Wolves Updates 6/4
From Don Seeholzer/Pioneer Press: The highlight of Wednesday morning’s pre-draft workouts at Target Center was supposed to be the point-guard…
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