On August 12, 1994, the Major League Baseball Players went on strike. All attempts to resolve the differences between the players' union and the owners of the teams fell through. The season just stopped. There were no playoffs. There was no World Series. No Series?!?! "Many baseball fans lamented that while two World Wars, a Great Depression, an ( Read more... )

On the website for my favorite team: Pitchers & Catchers Report: TODAY"Yeah, I know. The Steelers won the Super Bowl 2 years ago. The Penguins are at the top of their division, even with Sidney Crosby out. The mens and womens basketball teams of my university are both nationally ranked, and the boys and girls teams of my high school are in the ( Read more... )

Pitchers and catchers report today!(Slightly altered from something Keith Olbermann said the other night. Part of why I watch Keith is that, no matter how well he does politics and other news, he's still very obviously a baseball guy at heart ( Read more... )

The Onion has a very funny article about the Pittsburgh Pirates' General Manager. (The Onion refers to him as "Doug Littlefield" though in real life his name is Dave.)

Pat at "Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke?", whence I found this, notes that it's "probably truer than we'd like to believe".Meanwhile, pitchers and catchers report for spring ( Read more... )

Pat at the blog Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke has posted a true Pirate fan's take on the baseball playoffs. When your team was lucky to finish in next-to-last (as opposed to last) place in the league, your view of the playoffs gets a bit askew. As you can see it leans heavily on where certain ex-Buccos are, including his blog's namesake. And ( Read more... )

Once again, mateys, the Buccos celebrated Talk Like a Pirate Day by doing their talking with their bats and making the opposing team walk the plank!

As Lanny Frattare, the team's senior announcer, says after each victory, "Raise the Jolly Roger!" (They've been doing it a lot more since the All-Star break, too.)

I see on the N.Y. Times website that Craig Wilson got two singles (and scored a run) for the Y's tonight ( Read more... )

The losing streak is over! Freddy Sanchez hit a homer in the bottom of the ninth ( Read more... )

GAHHHH ( Read more... )

The Oakland Athletics ("A's") have a player named Nick Swisher. Honest.

This is, IMHO, the funniest baseball-player name since Pirates pitcher-turned-announcer Bob Walk ( Read more... )