Tag: MLB

If you don’t start no shit, there won’t be no shit

Willie “Pops” Stargell, Hall of Famer from the Pittsburgh Pirates as told in “Bring In The Righthander” by Jerry Reuss

His heart was bigger than his talent and there were no foul lines for his enthusiasm.

Vin Scully, on Tommy Lasorda

That is a damn good quote!

With the passing of Tommy Lasorda, there is officially a Big Blue Dodger in the sky. Tommy is shown here in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes discussing the finer points of the Official Baseball Rules with an umpire.

He loved the game of baseball and he loved the Dodgers.I think he really believed he bled blue. The colorful ambassador of baseball was 93. I’m glad he got to watch his team win a World Series in the last game of baseball he ever watched. Pretty damn poetic!

RIP Tommy

Happy Birthday to the great Sandy Koufax, he and his left arm of God turned 85. 

It’s been a rough year for baseball when it comes to losing legends. 2020 strikes again taking Phil Niekro at the age of 81, I guess team 2020 needed a knuckle-baller and another character.

I haven’t looked into it, but it’s hard to imagine a single year topping a rotation of Bob Gibson, Tom Seaver, Whitey Ford, Don Larsen and Niekro. 

RIP Nucksie

Last night (8/28), we lost a young talent as Chadwick Boseman died of cancer. (FUCK CANCER). He’s shown here in “42″ and I can’t imagine anyone playing the late great Jackie Robinson any better. It’s a bit cosmic that he passed away on MLB’s rescheduled Jackie Robinson’s Day where each player for each team wears #42.

Rest in Peace

Larry Wayne Jones Jr, aka “Chipper”, #10 above getting tagged out by Hall of Fame Catcher Mike Piazza, gets enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York today today. He’s a guy you hated to play because he was so damn good. He would have been one of my favorite players had he played for the Brewers, Twins, anyone but the dreadful Braves.   Piazza would always call him Larry because he refused to call a grown man Chipper. I get it. It’s funny.

Congratulations Larry th

I still think Peyton Manning is jealous of baseball players with all that champagne and Budweiser

19 years ago tonight, I was eating dinner at on old haunt craning my neck up to watch this little tiny POS 19″ TV that didn’t have the best reception. Mark McGwire was digging into the batter’s box and he had 61 home runs to his name. 

It was a magical chase and some will argue that it has long since been tainted, and that is fair, but it made that Summer of ‘98 magical.  Whether he ever enters Cooperstown or not, he was one of the best power hitters I ever saw.  Watching him embrace Rogers Maris’ kids and family after #62 sailed over the left field wall told me all I ever needed to know about how special it was to him.