Balls Indeed, Dr. Horrible. Balls Indeed.

[piney61]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Fire Joe Morgan is signing off!However, I can understand the reasonings. I mean the main writer on there, Ken Tremendous(aka Michael Schur who writes for the Office aka Mose Schrute aka Regis Philbin's son in law) is pretty busy with quite the hit show on his hands. Also the other two guys aren't too shabby either. It sucks

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[meril]

'sokay, I think Baseball Think Factory and ShysterBall can take up the slack in pointing out OMGWHUT articles. ;)

[alphabetroutes]

sigh. . .there were many days when i would laugh harder at this website than anything else i encountered. among the many things it gave me was a reaffirmation that i could NEVER be a sports reporter and an undying appreciation for those who can effectively mock that seductive siren named baseball pastoralism. one of many examples i hold dear, if only for the fact it mentions a watch fob:

It is a time of cowardice and fear, oblivious to the lessons of history. If there's a bond among starting pitchers of the pitch-count era, it's that they were born too late.Yes. I'm sure Barry Zito wishes he were born in 1884, and instead of making $126m over the next six+ years, he had made $40 per 350 innings and lived in a crappy one-bedroom near the park and aspired to drive a Model T and read with great interest news of the first plane flight and carried a watch fob and used a glove that was only slightly bigger than his hand that he had to leave on the mound for the guy on the other team to use and died of typhoid at the age of 28. Ah...the

[ecl1958]

Baseball pastoralism...what a great term for it, and it's so very true. You just did a great job of mocking it, too -- are you SURE you don't want to be a sports reporter?

[alphabetroutes]

unfortunately i did not write this, i just forgot the quotation marks. although i have been known to traffic in sarcasm on the subject often, especially now that i am hard at work researching art/song of the deadball period and plodding through some of the worst offenders of the attempting to uphold the sanctity of ye olden tymes (tm) crowd.

[meril]

I can't get nostalgic in that "pastoralism" way. There's just a lot of players I miss, that's all. About the only things I've been known to get nostalgic about are uniform styles. (And then i remember the comment I made on a ballcard blog about the disappearance of tight pants--sure, there are guys who would look good in them, but when the only guys wearing them now are Chan Ho Park, who's just getting to the age where he shouldn't, and Heath Bell who should never ever ever wear them, I am not so nostalgic.)