The 2014 baseball is only two days old as I write this…or four days old if you count the Diamondbacks v Dodgers two-game set in Sydney over a week ago…which I don’t. It didn’t take long for the first “HUH??!!” moments to appear and remind us just how dumb, weird and flat-out awesome the world…
Tag: Phillies
End of an ERA?
In the middle of the sixth inning at a Phillies v Braves game last Saturday the 7,300 square feet HD video screen shows a guy in the crowd going down on one knee to propose to his girlfriend. There’s a pause. “Errrmmmm…yes…?” came the response, finally. Roy Halladay was the Phillies starting pitcher that day…
Dead at the Trade LIne
Baseball’s trade deadline of 31st July – two-thirds into the season – gives General Managers in the sport a unique opportunity to give up. In no other sport, American or otherwise, is there quite the same opportunity to tell the world, “we’re not going to win and we know we’re not”, weeks before their teams…
PORK ROPE 