Thursday, July 07, 2011
July 7th In Red Sox Vs. Orioles History
Woohoo, a team with more than a century's worth of history against us! The Red Sox have played the Orioles' franchise 2,087 times. (After this four-game series, we will have played them and the Yanks the exact same number of times.) We've won 1,143 and lost 930, with a 615-414 home record. We haven't trailed in the all-time series since the then-Milwaukee Brewers led 2 games to 1 in 1901.
We should soon score our 10,000th run against them, but not this series (unless we score 79 runs in four days). Only twice has a team scored 10,000 against another, the Yanks against us and against the Orioles. There is a chance the O's score their 9,000th run against us in this series, should they come up with 19 runs.
On July 7th, we've met them nine times. Five of those were against the St. Louis Browns, which is who the Orioles were from 1902 to 1953. We were 2-3 in those games, and are 4-5 overall. The last time we played them at home on July 7th was 1957, an 8-4 loss. The full list:
1903 STL: 3-2 L The '03 Browns were streaky. Coming into this game, they'd lost 11 in a row, after winning 5 in a row, after losing 7 in a row, after winning 8 in a row. But they broke their most recent streak by beating Boston in the ninth. Down 2-1 with two outs, they rallied for two runs. The soon-to-be Red Sox loaded the bases in the bottom half, but had the tying run thrown out at the plate on a sac fly attempt to end the game. 4,320 people were in attendance at the old Huntington Avenue Grounds. Boston remained in first place, and would stay there for the rest of the season, eventually winning the first World Series.
1911 @STL: 6-1 W One hundred years ago today, Boston's Smoky Joe Wood pitched a masterpiece. He took a no-hitter to the ninth, and struck out 15 Browns in a 6-1 win in St. Louis. The Boston Daily Globe called it "one of the greatest pitching exhibitions that has been staged in this city in many long years."
1922 STL: 1-0 L
1922 STL: 5-4 W On the first of three straight doubleheaders at Fenway Park, Boston lost a pitchers' duel in game one and took the second game in 13 innings after tying it in the bottom of the ninth. Slugger George Burns ended it with a home run over the left field wall.
1932 STL: 8-2 L Red Sox players include guys named Rabbit, Urbane, Smead, and Ivy. They lose to a guy named Bump.
1956 BAL: 4-3 W A Saturday in July at Fenway, and only 10 thousand fans show up to see the Orioles and Red Sox. Tito Francona went 3 for 4 for the Birds, but it wasn't enough, as the Sox won 4-3.
1957 BAL: 8-4 L For the second straight July 7th, Tom Brewer started for the Sox against Baltimore at Fenway, this time losing 8-4. The attendance was only a little better than the previous year, again with both teams out of the race.
1996 @BAL: 7-5 W With two on and two outs in the top of the ninth and Boston trailing 5-4, Mo Vaughn his a three-run homer that would give the Sox a 7-5 win on a Sunday night at Camden Yards.
2005 @BAL: 3-1 L Baltimore wins a 6-inning, rain-shortened game--Adam Stern's major league debut!
O's @ Sox tonight. Boston tries to go 2-0 in games played on 7/7/11 against the Baltimore Orioles' franchise.
We should soon score our 10,000th run against them, but not this series (unless we score 79 runs in four days). Only twice has a team scored 10,000 against another, the Yanks against us and against the Orioles. There is a chance the O's score their 9,000th run against us in this series, should they come up with 19 runs.
On July 7th, we've met them nine times. Five of those were against the St. Louis Browns, which is who the Orioles were from 1902 to 1953. We were 2-3 in those games, and are 4-5 overall. The last time we played them at home on July 7th was 1957, an 8-4 loss. The full list:
1903 STL: 3-2 L The '03 Browns were streaky. Coming into this game, they'd lost 11 in a row, after winning 5 in a row, after losing 7 in a row, after winning 8 in a row. But they broke their most recent streak by beating Boston in the ninth. Down 2-1 with two outs, they rallied for two runs. The soon-to-be Red Sox loaded the bases in the bottom half, but had the tying run thrown out at the plate on a sac fly attempt to end the game. 4,320 people were in attendance at the old Huntington Avenue Grounds. Boston remained in first place, and would stay there for the rest of the season, eventually winning the first World Series.
1911 @STL: 6-1 W One hundred years ago today, Boston's Smoky Joe Wood pitched a masterpiece. He took a no-hitter to the ninth, and struck out 15 Browns in a 6-1 win in St. Louis. The Boston Daily Globe called it "one of the greatest pitching exhibitions that has been staged in this city in many long years."
1922 STL: 1-0 L
1922 STL: 5-4 W On the first of three straight doubleheaders at Fenway Park, Boston lost a pitchers' duel in game one and took the second game in 13 innings after tying it in the bottom of the ninth. Slugger George Burns ended it with a home run over the left field wall.
1932 STL: 8-2 L Red Sox players include guys named Rabbit, Urbane, Smead, and Ivy. They lose to a guy named Bump.
1956 BAL: 4-3 W A Saturday in July at Fenway, and only 10 thousand fans show up to see the Orioles and Red Sox. Tito Francona went 3 for 4 for the Birds, but it wasn't enough, as the Sox won 4-3.
1957 BAL: 8-4 L For the second straight July 7th, Tom Brewer started for the Sox against Baltimore at Fenway, this time losing 8-4. The attendance was only a little better than the previous year, again with both teams out of the race.
1996 @BAL: 7-5 W With two on and two outs in the top of the ninth and Boston trailing 5-4, Mo Vaughn his a three-run homer that would give the Sox a 7-5 win on a Sunday night at Camden Yards.
2005 @BAL: 3-1 L Baltimore wins a 6-inning, rain-shortened game--Adam Stern's major league debut!
O's @ Sox tonight. Boston tries to go 2-0 in games played on 7/7/11 against the Baltimore Orioles' franchise.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Arnold: Whatchoo Talkin' Bout, Self?
6-4 win. 2 of 3 taken from Toronto. 184 for Wake! Ricky Romero cannot stop the Rock Brigade. (I've been meaning to say this for a few weeks now, but the 2011 Red Sox offense at my house and hopefully yours will officially be known as the Rock Brigade. Even a huge fan of Def Leppard albums #2-#4 might not even be aware of this tune, one of the only good ones off of the 1980 debut album, when they were pretty much trying to be Iron Maiden and Joe Elliott sang like he had cotton balls in his mouth. Check it out here and play it every night, as I have been doing, in honor of our super-powered O. I'll have to make a video highlight film using the song.)
Yanks lose, so we're a half game out of first place. The O's come to town for four, then it's the All-Star Break.
Tonight I had the misfortune of hearing the first five innings on the radio in the car. I only say misfortune because Dale Arnold was Joe's partner tonight. Okay, it is hard to fill in and do something you don't normally do--but Jesus, that was a poor performance. Aside from just generally not knowing how to do a radio play-by-play, and the fact that he insists on inserting snarky comments when doing color, here are two examples of the horror show that is Dale in the booth:
He called Tuesday night's win a walk-off. If you're gonna call a game that ends with the winning team on defense a walk-off, you might as well call every game that. Because that's how they always end. (Unless it's an actual walk-off.) I referred to the game last night as having the "celebratory" ending. Yes, it's a different kind of ending than usual when you end a game with a play on the bases on a non-force out--but that doesn't make it a "walk-off." But hey, as long as nobody's even using that term correctly, might as well go hog wild. Hey, these peaches are on sale. Walk-off!
Another thing Dale does is to misplace his enthusiasm, almost as if he's imitating an announcer. Maybe the casual listener wouldn't notice something like this, but as a 30+ year radio tuner-inner, it sounds ridiculous: Red Sox hit a deep fly ball (which he sometimes describes as a "pop"--someone get this guy lessons). He tells us the outfielder is back at the wall, "looking up." Fine. But at this point, the listener knows there are only two possible outcomes: 1. ball goes over wall, 2. ball goes off the wall. If it goes out, the announcer should say so with surprise and excitement. If it goes off the wall, there should be excitement (though not as much as if it goes over), but, considering this is now the worse of the two possible outcomes--still great, but not a home run--there should be no surprise. But Dale yells it out the same way that, say, Vin Scully did as soon as the ball went through Buckner's legs. Since Dale already knew the ball was at minimum off the wall already, it means he was faking his surprise (and excitement, since he used the "home run" level call instead of the "aww, it's only off the wall which still is sweet but isn't as good as a dong" type call. Does that make any sense?
Overall he just doesn't fully describe the action that we can't see. Everything's disjointed or delayed. If he was a young announcer still innocently learning the ropes, that would be fine, but he thinks he's the shit. (Which is why I seriously soured on him as a talk show host back when I was listening to that crap. Needless to say I smiled an evil smile when he was fired from his gig.)
Oh Jesus, TC just used the term "core four" when referring to Red Sox players. End that right now, Tom. Right now.
Yanks lose, so we're a half game out of first place. The O's come to town for four, then it's the All-Star Break.
Tonight I had the misfortune of hearing the first five innings on the radio in the car. I only say misfortune because Dale Arnold was Joe's partner tonight. Okay, it is hard to fill in and do something you don't normally do--but Jesus, that was a poor performance. Aside from just generally not knowing how to do a radio play-by-play, and the fact that he insists on inserting snarky comments when doing color, here are two examples of the horror show that is Dale in the booth:
He called Tuesday night's win a walk-off. If you're gonna call a game that ends with the winning team on defense a walk-off, you might as well call every game that. Because that's how they always end. (Unless it's an actual walk-off.) I referred to the game last night as having the "celebratory" ending. Yes, it's a different kind of ending than usual when you end a game with a play on the bases on a non-force out--but that doesn't make it a "walk-off." But hey, as long as nobody's even using that term correctly, might as well go hog wild. Hey, these peaches are on sale. Walk-off!
Another thing Dale does is to misplace his enthusiasm, almost as if he's imitating an announcer. Maybe the casual listener wouldn't notice something like this, but as a 30+ year radio tuner-inner, it sounds ridiculous: Red Sox hit a deep fly ball (which he sometimes describes as a "pop"--someone get this guy lessons). He tells us the outfielder is back at the wall, "looking up." Fine. But at this point, the listener knows there are only two possible outcomes: 1. ball goes over wall, 2. ball goes off the wall. If it goes out, the announcer should say so with surprise and excitement. If it goes off the wall, there should be excitement (though not as much as if it goes over), but, considering this is now the worse of the two possible outcomes--still great, but not a home run--there should be no surprise. But Dale yells it out the same way that, say, Vin Scully did as soon as the ball went through Buckner's legs. Since Dale already knew the ball was at minimum off the wall already, it means he was faking his surprise (and excitement, since he used the "home run" level call instead of the "aww, it's only off the wall which still is sweet but isn't as good as a dong" type call. Does that make any sense?
Overall he just doesn't fully describe the action that we can't see. Everything's disjointed or delayed. If he was a young announcer still innocently learning the ropes, that would be fine, but he thinks he's the shit. (Which is why I seriously soured on him as a talk show host back when I was listening to that crap. Needless to say I smiled an evil smile when he was fired from his gig.)
Oh Jesus, TC just used the term "core four" when referring to Red Sox players. End that right now, Tom. Right now.
July 6th In Red Sox Vs. Blue Jays History
Last night we scored our 2,500th run all-time vs. Toronto.
7/6 fun: We've played the Jays once on July 6th, in that same series from 1977 when we hit the 8 dongs in a game. (July 5th was a scheduled mid-series day off--not a rain-out--which is why we've never played them on July 5th.) It was another big win at Fenway for the high-powered Sox. No homers this time, as the runs came home on singles, doubles, and two late sac flies as Boston pulled away for the 9-5 victory. Luis Tiant didn't make it out of the fourth, but the 'pen allowed nothing the rest of the way. Yaz made two great plays in the field which you won't find in the box score.
Interesting at bat in the third--from retrosheet: "Woods fouled off 11 straight pitches before fouling out; three of the fouls just missed home runs." Those little tidbits are yet another reason retrosheet is better than the ad-diseased Baseball Reference, at least when you just need a box score/play-by-play. (Obviously retrosheet has nothing like the B-R Play Index.)
Another kinda cool site is Back to Baseball, which plays back old games in their entirety, in the same way you might watch on Gameday or whatever. Here's the game from above. (Why do players from both teams go back to the same dugout? Okay, I can get past that....)
7/6 fun: We've played the Jays once on July 6th, in that same series from 1977 when we hit the 8 dongs in a game. (July 5th was a scheduled mid-series day off--not a rain-out--which is why we've never played them on July 5th.) It was another big win at Fenway for the high-powered Sox. No homers this time, as the runs came home on singles, doubles, and two late sac flies as Boston pulled away for the 9-5 victory. Luis Tiant didn't make it out of the fourth, but the 'pen allowed nothing the rest of the way. Yaz made two great plays in the field which you won't find in the box score.
Interesting at bat in the third--from retrosheet: "Woods fouled off 11 straight pitches before fouling out; three of the fouls just missed home runs." Those little tidbits are yet another reason retrosheet is better than the ad-diseased Baseball Reference, at least when you just need a box score/play-by-play. (Obviously retrosheet has nothing like the B-R Play Index.)
Another kinda cool site is Back to Baseball, which plays back old games in their entirety, in the same way you might watch on Gameday or whatever. Here's the game from above. (Why do players from both teams go back to the same dugout? Okay, I can get past that....)
Just How We Drew It Up
It could have been a no-hitter. But Lester had to leave the game due to a lat injury, and in the end we had to settle for a combined shutout 3-0 win. Or so we thought--Pap gave up a two-run dong to the Bautista regime, and then put the tying run at second with two out. On a base hit to left, Darnell fired to the plate, nailing the runner to end the game. The runner's foot kicked some dirt across the plate just before Tek got the tag on him. Whether the foot itself dragged across the plate's surface was hard to determine. What I do know is, it was fucking sweet. It's fun to have the celebratory victory fun when you're in the field. You only get that on no-hitters, clinches, milestone or record-setting wins, and extra-special defensive plays that end it like this one.
I wasn't watching live at the moment our no-hitter was broken up. But I was curious--since it was a different pitcher than the starter who gave it up, what would the fans do? Especially knowing the starter was most likely injured. Because normally you'd give the guy a big hand. But does the new guy deserve the hand for simply coming in and blowing the no-no? Or do you clap for all the pitchers used up to that point collectively to honor that they have gone that long without giving up a hit? So I watched the hit on line. Turns out there was a fairly big "awww" as the ball got into left field, and then...not much of anything. (From what I could tell on the Blue Jays' feed.) I guess it makes sense. But when you go through 5+ innings of a no-hitter, you should get that moment to cheer, right? Like, Woohoo, this was fuckin' fun while it lasted! But I guess in this situation you get nothing and like it.
Dicks won, so we stay 1.5 back. The Devs have fallen to 5 behind, the Jays are 10.5, and those poor Orioles have quietly slipped to nearly 15 games out.
I wasn't watching live at the moment our no-hitter was broken up. But I was curious--since it was a different pitcher than the starter who gave it up, what would the fans do? Especially knowing the starter was most likely injured. Because normally you'd give the guy a big hand. But does the new guy deserve the hand for simply coming in and blowing the no-no? Or do you clap for all the pitchers used up to that point collectively to honor that they have gone that long without giving up a hit? So I watched the hit on line. Turns out there was a fairly big "awww" as the ball got into left field, and then...not much of anything. (From what I could tell on the Blue Jays' feed.) I guess it makes sense. But when you go through 5+ innings of a no-hitter, you should get that moment to cheer, right? Like, Woohoo, this was fuckin' fun while it lasted! But I guess in this situation you get nothing and like it.
Dicks won, so we stay 1.5 back. The Devs have fallen to 5 behind, the Jays are 10.5, and those poor Orioles have quietly slipped to nearly 15 games out.
Monday, July 04, 2011
July 5th In Red Sox Vs. Blue Jays History
Never played 'em on July 5th. But I'll take this time to say that the 7/4/2002 game was the fifth win of a five-game sweep. I should have said that yesterday. That's all I got. Oh except the whores lost so we're still 1.5 out. And also, hope you got to see some of the Twilight Zone marathon. Usually I forget about the July 4th one as I associate the show with snow and calendars flipping, but this year I got to see some of the hot version.
Canada Wins
After Lackey put us in a huge hole (as he is wont to do), I said we'll just have to win 10-9. It almost happened. We cut the Jays' lead to 9-7, and had the tying run on first with no outs in the 9th, and Pedroia and Adrian coming up. But we lost. And I was pissed.
Independence Day (US) In Red Sox Vs. Blue Jays History
We've played the AL's Canadian squad twice on the 4th of July. Both at home, both wins.
In 2002, we pulled away from the Jays late, as Nomar and Trot went deep. Lowe got the win and Varitek walked in a run in the 9-5 victory. We stayed a game out of first, while Toronto fell to 19.5 back.
1977's game had a similar score but was a much crazier day. After not getting a baserunner through the first four innings, the Red Sox would explode for 9 runs on 8 homers. George Scott, Fred Lynn, Butch Hobson, and Bernie Carbo had gone deep through 7 innings, but Boston was still down 6-5 going to the bottom of the eighth. Fred Lynn tied it with a dong, then Jim Rice gave the Red Sox the lead with a dong, then Yaz made it back-to-back-to-back homers, the first time the Sox had done that since 1959. A batter later, George Scott the fourth bomb of the inning onto the roof of the parking garage across Lansdowne, and the Red Sox were suddenly up 9-6. And there's your final.
The 7 solo dongs set an MLB record. The 8 total dongs tied one. It was the seventh time in 1977 that they hit five or more homers in a game, another record.
Sox vs. Jays, 1:35.
In 2002, we pulled away from the Jays late, as Nomar and Trot went deep. Lowe got the win and Varitek walked in a run in the 9-5 victory. We stayed a game out of first, while Toronto fell to 19.5 back.
1977's game had a similar score but was a much crazier day. After not getting a baserunner through the first four innings, the Red Sox would explode for 9 runs on 8 homers. George Scott, Fred Lynn, Butch Hobson, and Bernie Carbo had gone deep through 7 innings, but Boston was still down 6-5 going to the bottom of the eighth. Fred Lynn tied it with a dong, then Jim Rice gave the Red Sox the lead with a dong, then Yaz made it back-to-back-to-back homers, the first time the Sox had done that since 1959. A batter later, George Scott the fourth bomb of the inning onto the roof of the parking garage across Lansdowne, and the Red Sox were suddenly up 9-6. And there's your final.
The 7 solo dongs set an MLB record. The 8 total dongs tied one. It was the seventh time in 1977 that they hit five or more homers in a game, another record.
Sox vs. Jays, 1:35.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Done (And One)
Interleague Play is done. We end it with a sweep of the worst team in baseball. All-star Josh Beckett did a fine job, a run in 8 frames. We had a few bigtime squanders and should have been way up, but we found ourselves tied with two outs in the ninth. After a bases loaded intentional walk to all-star Adrian Gonzalez, Youk drew another, and we took a 2-1 lead. Pap got the save.
The one last piece of NL craption is hoping the Mets can somehow accidentally pull a run out of their asses, trailing the Yanks 2-1 in the ninth as I type.
Update 5:32. Holy shit. Mets tie it off Mo. He had the first two out, and 3-2 on Bay, and walks him. Next guy singles. First and third but they still need one more hit. And Duda, after being down 0-2, singles it in! Next guy hits a grounder that goes under the shortstop. The Mets play it exxxxxtra aggressively and try to score from second, and the guy's out by a mile to send it to extras.
And let me say this about the TBS announcers. Fuck 'em. The whole fucking inning they're doing that sarco-talk as if Mariano has literally never given up a hit in his career. They were just laughing about it. And of course all the Yankee fans at Citi had that old look on their faces. The ollllld nothing can ever go wrong for the best people in the world look. ONCE AGAIN it was erased with Mo on the mound. Okay, now it's top 10, and the Mets got the first two, but then Cano hit a liner that the National Leaguer they got out in CF let the ball go by him, turning it into a triple. Now a free pass to Posada, and Martin's up with 2 out, first and third....
5:43: Mets get out of it. We go bottom 10, tied.
5:46: Mo out. Ayala in. Walks first guy! Okay, Mets, National League in a run here!
5:50: Runner bunted over. Winning run at second.
5:57: Logan in, first and second, one out. Beltran up...
5:58: Beltran strikes out. At least he swing the bat. God damn it. God DAMN it.
6:02: Another E for the Yanks SS, but he keeps it in front of him, so it's bases loaded, two out, tied, bottom 10, JASON BAY coming up as the Yanks go to the pen.
6:05: Bay base hit, oh my lord in H!!!!!!!!! This is an all-time great day in Yankee Hating history! 1.5 games back. HUGE!!!!!!! I will be laughing long into the night.
The one last piece of NL craption is hoping the Mets can somehow accidentally pull a run out of their asses, trailing the Yanks 2-1 in the ninth as I type.
Update 5:32. Holy shit. Mets tie it off Mo. He had the first two out, and 3-2 on Bay, and walks him. Next guy singles. First and third but they still need one more hit. And Duda, after being down 0-2, singles it in! Next guy hits a grounder that goes under the shortstop. The Mets play it exxxxxtra aggressively and try to score from second, and the guy's out by a mile to send it to extras.
And let me say this about the TBS announcers. Fuck 'em. The whole fucking inning they're doing that sarco-talk as if Mariano has literally never given up a hit in his career. They were just laughing about it. And of course all the Yankee fans at Citi had that old look on their faces. The ollllld nothing can ever go wrong for the best people in the world look. ONCE AGAIN it was erased with Mo on the mound. Okay, now it's top 10, and the Mets got the first two, but then Cano hit a liner that the National Leaguer they got out in CF let the ball go by him, turning it into a triple. Now a free pass to Posada, and Martin's up with 2 out, first and third....
5:43: Mets get out of it. We go bottom 10, tied.
5:46: Mo out. Ayala in. Walks first guy! Okay, Mets, National League in a run here!
5:50: Runner bunted over. Winning run at second.
5:57: Logan in, first and second, one out. Beltran up...
5:58: Beltran strikes out. At least he swing the bat. God damn it. God DAMN it.
6:02: Another E for the Yanks SS, but he keeps it in front of him, so it's bases loaded, two out, tied, bottom 10, JASON BAY coming up as the Yanks go to the pen.
6:05: Bay base hit, oh my lord in H!!!!!!!!! This is an all-time great day in Yankee Hating history! 1.5 games back. HUGE!!!!!!! I will be laughing long into the night.
All *s
Adrian and Papi got in as expected. Ellsbury didn't catch Crack Jesus, but he did make it in through player voting. Beckett will represent our hurlers.
The exciting news: We got Russell Martin out, and Avila in. Nice job, everybody.
So shitty to see Jeter make it. But of course he'll recognize he's far, far, far from an All-Star and will classily concede the starting nod to someone more deserving.
Sox @ Colt .45s, 2:05 eastern.
The exciting news: We got Russell Martin out, and Avila in. Nice job, everybody.
So shitty to see Jeter make it. But of course he'll recognize he's far, far, far from an All-Star and will classily concede the starting nod to someone more deserving.
Sox @ Colt .45s, 2:05 eastern.
Saturday, July 02, 2011
One More
After tonight's 10-4 win in Houey, we've got three possibilities as we re-enter the season on July 4th, our "independence day," if you will:
1.5 out. With the Yanks playing the Mets, fat chance. I'll sit there and watch a Twins-Yanks series with complete optimism, but when they play the Mets, I never hold my breath.
2.5 out. Due to the above statement, I'd be very happy with this.
3.5 out. I'd be a little pissed, but the happiness that comes from the independence from Interlegious Oppression would outweigh it.
1.5 out. With the Yanks playing the Mets, fat chance. I'll sit there and watch a Twins-Yanks series with complete optimism, but when they play the Mets, I never hold my breath.
2.5 out. Due to the above statement, I'd be very happy with this.
3.5 out. I'd be a little pissed, but the happiness that comes from the independence from Interlegious Oppression would outweigh it.
Lass The Ass
I missed the beginning. It was another Craptional League fest, but then I tuned in. You're welcome. We turned 5-1 them into 7-5 in one inning. Pedroia turned all the way around while running to first on the game-tying hit to give shit to ump Laz Diaz after an earlier bad call. Yanks played the Mets so we gained no ground. Two more shitty NL games, then we're done!
Friday, July 01, 2011
Betterness Gotten
As we knew, the Red Sox were going to make one of those "It Gets Better" videos. Well, the video is out. It's right there on redsox.com, and here at the It Gets Better Project site. Actually, I'll go ahead and embed the YouTube version (only at 314 views as of now) below. Of course, I'd been curious about which Red Sox would take part in the video. Turns out it's Tito, Tek, and Youk. If these weren't already three of my favorite Red Sox, they would have moved to the top of the list anyway today. Great job by them. In a world where a lot of lunkheads think that gay people are some kind of monsters out to destroy their "pure" (ha!) way of life, it's great to see any celebrity, especially athletes, stand up for the gay community. If there's one thing harder than being different (in any way), it's being young and different. And that's what this whole It Gets Better/Trevor Project is about.
Unrelated: More great stuff from Hauls of Shame. This time it's about a fake Ty Cobb diary. And you know "Barry the Hatchet"/"Halper the Scalper"'s involved...
Happy New Month, everybody. My New Month's Resolution is to end Interleague Play once and for all. Well, that's more of a years-long aspiration. I guess I'll just give up soda. Again.
Unrelated: More great stuff from Hauls of Shame. This time it's about a fake Ty Cobb diary. And you know "Barry the Hatchet"/"Halper the Scalper"'s involved...
Happy New Month, everybody. My New Month's Resolution is to end Interleague Play once and for all. Well, that's more of a years-long aspiration. I guess I'll just give up soda. Again.
