Tag Archives: baseball
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11 Worst No-Hitters Of All Time
If someone said to you, “real quick, what’s the ultimate achievement for a pitcher,” you’d probably answer that it’s a no-hitter. You’d be wrong, of course, because the ultimate achievement is a perfect game. But a no-hitter is the next best thing, and that’s not a terrible answer. After all, we usually think of no-hitters [...]
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Rays Manager Joe Maddon Writes Message On Ball And Tosses It To D.C. Heckler (Video)
The other day, Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Joel Peralta got ejected from a game against the Washington Nationals before he even threw a pitch when the umpires discovered he had smeared pine tar on his glove. Afterward, Rays manager Joe Maddon was pretty pissed off, but not at his pitcher. Instead, he was pissed [...]
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Joe Biden Not Happy With Attention Jimmy Rollins Gets From The Second Lady (Video)
Say what you want about the Obama Administration, but at least VP Joe Biden knows how to keep it real. Yesterday at the White House, during a press conference to announce a new ad campaign speaking out against domestic violence, Vice President Joe Biden went off on Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins. But don’t worry, [...]
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Watch Home Plate Umpire Derryl Cousins Trip Over Carlos Santana (Video)
Being a Major League umpire has got to be a hard job. Not only do you have to wear a ton of equipment out there under the hot sun in the middle of the summer, but pretty much everyone is just waiting to go off on you if you even come close to blowing a [...]
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Tampa Bay’s Joel Peralta Ejected For Having Pine Tar On His Glove (Video)
With all these newfangled cheaters out there in the world of sports—guys using creams, transfusions and teams of chemists to get a leg up on the competition—every once in a while it’s nice to hear that there are still a few guys who insist on cheating the old-fashioned way. Of course, these old-fashioned cheaters are [...]
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Quotes Bryce Harper At Press Conference (Video)
How you can tell the Washington Nationals are in first place? When a politician makes a joking reference regarding one of their players—and everyone around him actually laughs. Up until this season, even if by some chance a guy did think about making some kind of Nats reference, he would have to keep it to [...]
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Roger Clemens Perjury Trial Gets The Taiwanese Animation Spin By NMA (Video)
Yesterday, Roger Clemens was acquitted on charges of lying to Congress and obstructing their investigation into whether or not he took performance enhancing drugs to extend his storied career. The acquittal put an end to a 10-week trial and a 5-year investigation, so obviously Clemens was a little emotional as he addressed the media afterward. [...]
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This Day In Sports History (June 18th) – Billy Martin
It was on this day in 1979 that George Steinbrenner re-hired Billy Martin to manage the New York Yankees. This was Martin’s second of an incredible five stints as manager of the Yankees. Martin first began managing New York in 1975, when he took over for the fired Bill Virdon, and led the Yankees to [...]
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Carlos Santana Tackles Cincinnati Reds Fan Going For Foul Ball (Video)
It’s always fun to get front-row seats for a sporting event. While the vantage point isn’t quite as good down there as it is a little further back, you really get to feel like you’re part of the action. In fact, sometimes you are a part of the action. Unfortunately, that’s not always a good [...]
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Who Wants To See Yu Darvish Dressed In Drag And Singing Shania Twain? (Video)
Hazing the rookies is a time-honored sports tradition. It’s a privilege a player acquires after paying his dues in the big leagues, and when exercised judiciously, the results can be hilarious. But here’s a question: what if one of the rookies isn’t really a rookie? What if he’s been a superstar pitcher in Japan for [...]
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Guy Uses Jet Pack To Fly Around McCovey Cove During Matt Cain’s Perfect Game (Videos)
If you don’t live on the West Coast, then you might not have found out about Matt Cain’s 14-strikeout perfect game last night against the Astros in San Francisco until…well, just now. And let me tell you, it was a game for the ages. The 22nd perfect game ever thrown was almost certainly one of [...]
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Note To Reporters: Don’t Ask Bryce Harper What His Favorite Beer Is (Video)
Bryce Harper has been the No.1 prospect in baseball since he was 16 years old, when he was cracking 500-foot home runs at Tropicana Field and gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated. But this season the hype ended and Harper’s Major League career began…at the age of 19. Now, Harper’s age is important here, because [...]
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Just a Drunk Reds Fan Passed Out at the Ball Game (Video)
There are two things in the world that are capable of putting grown men to bed like nothing else: baseball and beer. So what happens when you combine the two? You’ll find the answer to that question in the video below, as this Cincinnati Reds fan punched a one-way ticket to Dream Land after drinking [...]
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Bill Murray Entertains Minor League Baseball Fans During Rain Delay (Video)
The rain delay is one of those idiosyncratic features of baseball that makes you either love the game or hate it. The haters would argue that rain delays are boring, and that real men playing real sports play through bad weather (See Green Bay, Wisconson). But the lovers would insist that rain delays provide unique [...]
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Watch 47-Year-Old Jose Canseco Get Ejected From A Minor League Baseball Game (Video)
Jose Canseco has been far more entertaining since retiring from Major League Baseball than he ever was as a player. And we’re talking about a guy with arms like tree trunks who hit 462 home runs, so that’s really saying something. Back in March, after bouncing around various independent league teams for about 10 years, [...]
