Archive for March, 2009

Why are today’s baseball uniforms so lame?

Back in the 70s, baseball teams had courage. Now they’re uniforms are boring.

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How can I throw a 100 mph fastball like that San Diego State guy?

Remember that crappy carnival game where you had to guess how fast you could throw a baseball?
 
     I remember getting all excited about it. Not because I wanted to win a plastic helmet. But, rather, because I was thinking, you know — I’m going to really impress people with my cannon arm. Even though I [...]

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Getting My Life Back in Order

Yeah so if those little small girls in those Windows commercials can make a panorama photo of their forts or whatever then I can make one of some spring training stadiums by God.  Here’s a few more for your viewing pleasure because I am a PC and I am 30 years old.
You know who is [...]

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The Giants Should Have Never Dropped Barry Bonds

Whatever, man. You know what? I’m a little tired of the whole steroids in baseball thing.
First of all, it was absurd that the U.S. Congress got involved. I mean, what are there, like 500 Major League Baseball players in the entire world? And here Congress was making a big deal about them taking steroids — [...]

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Adios Phoenix–Day 3 of Spring Training

The Mexicutioner, John B and myself left Phoenix yesterday and endured the 7 million mile drive back to civilization and immediately jumped into our 2009 Fantasy Baseball draft, a 5 hour affair held via the magic of the interweb.  I’ll get to everything else on a later post but here’s what happened during our final [...]

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Why was I such a coward with my NCAA brackets? Why did I even bother?

Just don’t talk to me, all right?
Nothing personal. It’s just that I’m really upset with myself.
Frustrated.
When it came time to fill out my NCAA brackets, I turned out to be a total chicken shit. And now I’m at the bottom 30 percentile — just like I was with the L-SAT, which, by the way,  is [...]

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Spring Training, Day Two

Dia de dos of our trip to Phoenix started very similar to day one–we again had to wait for John B to take care of his “errands” which apparently involved some sort of high finance, and by high finance I mean something that you can’t just do at an ATM.  Who actually goes into banks?  [...]

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Four NBA Final Match Ups We Want To See

 It is no coincidense that the Lakers are in the top 4 dream finals matches. We WANT to see the Lakers in the Finals. NBA fans either love them or hate them. And hate them so much that they don’t care who they play as long as they lose. But they might be disappointed this [...]

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Top Ten Voices of Baseball

Here are my top ten favorite baseball announcers.

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Road Trip: The One Where We Go to Spring Training

So a while ago we all decided to do the Spring Training thing because baseball.  Let me tell you, Arizona is hot.  I live in Santa Barbara man, it gets to 80 degrees like four or five times a year and this whole sunshine thing is sweet sweetness.  Last night The Mexicutioner and I drove [...]

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