HE DOESN’T EVEN FLINCH!
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Part-Timers Sports Podcast: Episode 18: The Big Papi Problem
Recorded Monday July 28, 2014
On why Big Papi thinks he’s bigger than than the game, the best rivalry in baseball, and why MLB should consider pushing the trade deadline back a couple of weeks.
Part-Timers Sports Podcast: Episode 16: The Distraction Cop-Out
Recorded Wednesday July 23, 2014
On Tony Dungy’s comments about Michael Sam, why gays are lumped into the “distraction” pool, and baseball writers that should have their voting revoked.
With Teammates Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
Poor Jeff Francoeur.
First his teammates in Triple A El Paso tricked him into thinking Chihuahuas pitcher Jorge Reyes was deaf and filmed it all. Hilarity ensued, and the video blew up on social media (watch it here).
Now his teammates lock him in a bathroom after he gets called up to the Padres?
Good thing Frenchy is basically Houdini!
Part-Timers Sports Podcast: Episode 15: Mid-Summer Class Act
Recorded on Thursday July 17, 2014
On Derek Jeter’s last All Star Game, whether the farewell tour was avoidable, and Adam Wainwright’s douchey-ness.
The Final 81 Games of My Life as a Yankees Fan: Game #1
They say you always remember your first love…For me that was the New York Yankees.
The Bronx Bombers weren’t a team, they were a religion. For my friends and I, memorizing all the significant names and numbers of Yankees history was way more important than anything we could ever learn in school. If you called yourself a fan but didn’t know the significance of the numbers 714 or 2,130 or .353/52/130 then you were labeled a “poser” and not considered a “real fan.”
But with Derek Jeter‘s retirement at the end of the 2014 season will also come my “retirement” as a Yankees fan, for reasons I’ll explore later in future posts.
Game 1: Rays 2 (37-49) Yankees 1 (41-41)
It’s not just that the Yankees lose, it’s that they lose in the most boring way possible. I know this might be an indictment about the state of Major League Baseball as a whole but three hours and 13 minutes to play a 2-1 game? Really? I’ve got a 200-dollar-per-month cable bill and more channels than I can count, so why would I want to spend 1/8th of a day watching a baseball game in which only three runs get scored? Sometimes it feels like a chore watching this team play. And, for the record, I have no idea why a hitter has to adjust his batting gloves after every pitch, even after the ones he didn’t swing at.
They Yankees wasted a superb effort by SP Hiroki Kuroda by going only 1-9 with RISP and left 8 men on base. The #4 (Mark Teixeira) and #5 (Carlos Beltran) spots in the lineup, which make $37.5 million between them (or only $7,044,174 less than the entire Astros team makes) went 0-4 between them.
After watching this shit-show I wished I had gotten caught up on all the Ancient Aliens episodes I’ve got DVR’ed instead.
Brock Holt!
This catch is absolutely bonkers.
It was Brock Holt’s first start ever start in centerfield (definitely in the bigs, possibly in his life) and he makes THAT catch?
Get real.
Boston beat the Twins 2-1…and Holt scored both Red Sox runs.
Have a night, kid!
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