Posts Tagged ‘baseball’

While at this year's ABC convention, The Wife picked up this Baltimore Orioles 101 board book, ostensibly for The Kid™, but I think we all secretly know that it was for me.
It's a fun little book, but it's also way depressing for a lifelong Orioles fan, especially when you get to this 2-page spread about [...]

The Mets and Red Sox pwned 1986, but that didn't stop the Dodgers from buying a palette of satin jackets and putting them to their best use since Xanadu:

I'm pretty much 100% convinced at this point in my life that at any given minute of any given day, something awesome and doofy is happening in Japan.
To wit:
Researchers at Tokyo University recently developed robots that look to replicate the pitching and batting prowess of stars like Daisuke Matsuzaka and Ichiro Suzuki.
More here.
I think [...]

This is awesome and all, but I'd really be impressed if Womack did this at the plate during an actual at bat.

They may have brought little other than Teh Suck the last 5-10 seasons, but I can't help but love my Orioles. Even as a displaced fan out in California, I still try to follow their exploits as much as my stomach can handle, and it's with no small amount of sadness that I learned that [...]