This video had me cracking up. It’s a spoof instructional video by “career minor leaguer” Ron Stilanovich and including Rockies OF Brad Hawpe.
“Look at Brad… Forearms like sewer pipes.”
Category: Humor
Peoria Chiefs still in the running… in the Minor League Logo Contest??
What do minor league teams do what with all the players in spring training and the first game of the season weeks away? Simple.. take part in a logo contest. SportBiz with Darren Rovell which you can find on CNBC.com is hosting a minor league logo contest. Logos are pitted against each other and anyone can vote for their favorite.
The Cubs local single-A affiliate Peoria Chiefs are doing pretty well for themselves. They’ve made to the “Sweet Sixteen” of the best minor league team logos. Judge for yourselves.
For my friends in the Quad City area, the River City Bandits are still in the running too.
One more local favorite (and home to former Illini Brian Blomquist last year) is the Southern Illinois Miners.
Umm.. go Chiefs!
The Brian Roberts Rumors in a nutshell
No need for a program… The Cub Reporter has the gist of it.
Quite funny if you think of it. Maybe someone should do one for Joe Crede.
Wanted: Fat Men to dance for Marlins
The Florida Marlins are looking for a few fat men. Not to play on the team but to cheer them on.
They are looking to create an all-male “plus size” cheerleading team that will be called the “Manatees”. Despite their intended size, these men should be agile say the Marlins.
Unfortunately, there will be no pay involved. They will of course, get free admission to home games and as the snarky Yahoo Sports reporter put it, “the honor of dancing in front of crowds that have been smallest in major league baseball for the last two seasons.”
Phillies Phool Kendrick in Pre-season hoax
Second season pitcher Kyle Kendrick was the victim of an elaborate practical joke by his Phillie teammates. The crux of the joke was that he was being traded to Japan for a “Kobayashi Iwamura”.
Kobayashi is a reference to Takeru Kobayashi who long held the record for hot dog eating.
Teammate Brett Myers was the mastermind behind the whole thing but he help from other Phillies teammates, manager Charlie Manuel, and even Kendrick’s agent and sports reporters.
Not only was the whole thing carefully planned, it was even videotaped unbeknownst to Kendrick.
The You Tube video is a must see for a good laugh. Some of the media who were obviously in on it weren’t doing a good job keeping it a secret as they had their notepads up to their mouths to conceal their laughing.
Six more weeks
Help him out, Pat
One of Fukudome’s biggest boosters is Cubs broadcaster Ron Santo, who now has the envious task of trying to pronounce his name without incurring any fines from the FCC.
Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune staff reporter
An Obscene Auction Entry from 1898
Robert Edward Auctions seems to have a dilemma on their hands. They have in possesion a baseball-related document from 1898 which rivals Lee Elia’s rant when it comes to blue language.
“Reading this document started out very drab for a sentence or two, but then quickly got our attention as the language used became very unexpected for an official Major League baseball document… It turned “blue,” and, well, got “bluer.” This piece is ironic as it provides many examples of exactly the kind of “brutal language” that was being outlawed. In fact, it is so over the top that at first we thought it was some type of a joke. But as we examined the paper, found that this language did exist in the 1890s… “
At the time of this post, they were still deciding what to do with the item. Let me say before throwing up the link that the language in the actual scanned document is indeed NOT for the easily offended. The post itself which you’ll find at Robert Edward Auctions’ website is fine.
GO SOX!!!
On a tour of Florida , the Pope took a couple of days off to visit the coast for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the beach in the Pope-mobile when there was a frantic commotion just off shore.
A helpless man, wearing a Chicago Cubs jersey, was struggling frantically to free himself from the jaws of a 25-foot shark. As the Pope watched, horrified, a speedboat came racing up with three men wearing Chicago White Sox jerseys aboard. One quickly fired a harpoon into the shark’s side. The other two reached out and pulled the bleeding, semi-conscious Cubs fan from the water. Then using (autographed by Paul Konerko himself) baseball bats, the three heroes in Sox jerseys beat the shark to death and hauled it into the boat.
Immediately the Pope shouted and summoned them to the beach. “I give you my blessing for your brave actions,” he told them. “I heard that there was some bitter hatred between White Sox and Cub fans, but now I have seen with my own eyes that this is not the truth.”
As the Pope drove off, the harpooner asked his buddies “Who was that?” “It was the Pope,” one replied. “He is in direct contact with God and has access to all of God’s wisdom.”
“Well,” the harpooner said, “he may have access to God’s wisdom, but he doesn’t know shit about shark fishing…. how’s the bait holding up?”
Cubs in first and second??
Screen cap from USA Today standings page today: Making doubly sure that the Cubs are leading the division, I guess. Seriously, USAToday is experiencing some data import issues, I guess.
Screen cap from USA Today standings page today:
Making doubly sure that the Cubs are leading the division, I guess.
Seriously, USAToday is experiencing some data import issues, I guess.