HAPPY OPENING DAY, O’s FANS!!!!
Beautiful (sunny! sort of warm-ish!) day for baseball!
Let’s go, O’s!!!
Sexy team-spirited stilettos pic courtesy of the lovely Eleni of BestBloodys!
Here’s us celebrating Opening Day 2012:
And yes, it is driving me absolutely insane that I can’t tell what shoes I wore with the above outfit.
Saw this earlier this week on Deadspin.
It’s not quite as dramatic as the header suggests (never is, is it?) but basically, MLB pitcher Mark Buehrle was traded from the Miami Marlins to the Toronto Blue Jays.
If it wasn’t already depressing enough to be relocated from South Florida to Canada, one of his dogs is an American Staffordshire terrier which is banned in Ontario and, therefore, can’t come with him.
So the rest of the family isn’t either.
It might seem a little extreme, but I get it. Pets are family. You can’t just get rid of them or send them away when they’re inconvenient (and as a new puppy owner, I sometimes wish you could!)
It breaks my heart when I hear about people giving their dogs up because they have to move to a different housing situation that doesn’t allow pets. Would you leave your kids behind? Probably not - you’d find a way to keep them with you.
In Buehrle’s case, he’s still splitting up the family, but he’s the one who’ll be in Toronto while the rest of the family - wife, kids, and all the dogs, will split the summer between Florida and St. Louis.
I actually like this decision. He’s an adult making a conscious decision; he knows what the situation is and can prepare for it and handle it much better than a beloved dog who is suddenly sent away and can’t comprehend why, or what he did wrong, or where his family went.
Plus, Buehrle’s a ballplayer so he’ll be on the road about half the season anyway and would be without the rest of the family on all the away trips, so it’s much less of a strain than it would be for someone relocating for an office job.
Bottom line: When it comes to family, you do what you have to do to make it work. And dogs are most certainly family.
Congrats to Adam Jones, Matt Wieters, and JJ Hardy on their Gold Glove awards!
And congrats to the O’s, the only team to have THREE players receive the award!
So exciting!
(Photo via MASN Orioles Facebook page)
UM. It didn’t. Until now.
Edit: I actually was bothered that it changed from Anaheim Angels, which I remember from watching baseball growing up, to Los Angeles Angels (technically, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim). It still sounds weird to me - even weirder now.
(via sportspage: @neiltyson)
(via thegreg)
Someone has to find me the video of this. Please. PLEASE.
Yes, I’m begging. But this headline is too good and the still photos are too unsatisfying. Help me out, internet!
It’s time.
Final Vote time.
There are TWO spots left in the 2012 MLB All-Star Game.
My Twitter feed has been totally taken over by tweets campaigning for someone (generally Jason Hammel, since I follow a lot of Bmore peeps on Twitter).
I VOTED. Did you?
Time is running out. Go now, and vote for Baltimore’s Jason Hammel to snag the last spot on the American League All-Star roster.
Do it!!
(In the interest of full disclosure, I also voted for Bryce Harper for the last NL spot. OF COURSE I DID. Y’all already know.)
Bryce Harper named his dog Swag. Of course he did.
But the way Harper is portrayed in this wonderful Washington Post piece, he actually seems too low-key (yes, I did just use that phrase about this guy) to have a dog named Swag.
Which, naturally, just makes me like the kid even more.
List reblogged from sportspage:
- Invite a slugger from the home team and the worst hitter from their rival.
- The last place player has to buy the Dodgers.
- Cut the outs per round from 10 to 7. It’s way too long.
- Make one of every ten balls rubber so it flies longer.
- Make one of every ten balls chalk so it explodes to a cloud of smoke when hit.
- Soak one ball per batter in kerosine and light it on fire prior to throwing it
- Make sure the batter doesn’t know which ball is coming. I guess the fire ball will be noticeable, so they have to swing at that one.
- Instead of choosing who throws your pitches, make the pitcher with the highest ERA in MLB throw to the batter, they can pick the 8 worst and have a lottery.
- Hire NCAA bball athletes (yeah, they need $) to rob home runs. For each home run they rob over the fence they get $1000
- Make parts of the fence break away so when the guys try to rob a HR, the wall will crumble and they will fall.
- If they decide to keep kids in the outfield, I’d like to see them also release a lion into the park, gladiator style. Tell the children that if they don’t still try to catch the balls that Santa will be ground into hamburger meat and fed to CC Sabathia.
- Allow inside the park home runs. If you hit one and can get home before the lion catches the child with the ball, the home run counts.
- A moat would be nice, but would detract from the HR robberies. I haven’t figured this aspect out yet.
I’ll keep working on this before I submit it to MLB. Suggestions are encouraged.
Awesome ideas, especially the random rubber & chalk balls thrown in.
I love the Home Run Derby anyway - probably more because it almost always falls during my annual beach vacation than because of the actual event - but it could certainly be a little more exciting. Releasing a lion in the outfield might do the trick.
Anyone have any additional suggestions?
