The Mets opened minicamp yesterday, which means actual baseball stuff is happening. Eddie Kunz is notably trimmed-down and may just be in the best shape of his life (depending on his odds of making the team, I suppose), and Oliver Perez has the best beard of his life.
Marty Noble is baffled by the Gary Matthews Jr. deal.
Good lord, the Super Bowl is less than two weeks away and this is starting again. At this point, I hope Brett Favre retires and unretires one more time, so he will officially become the boy who cried retirement and no one ever takes anything he says seriously ever again.
This is an awesome story. Actually, just about everything involving Satchel Paige is awesome. Someone should make a Satchel Paige biopic and cast Dave Chappelle in the lead.
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A Satchel Paige biopic would be incredible.
I cannot believe how many articles there are on whether Favre will retire or not. It’s like the superbowl is almost secondary. Bah!
That is an awesome Satchel Paige story! Satchel Paige = my favorite baseball player ever. In 3rd grade, I wrote a short play on his life and took the lead role. I was by far the lightest skinned person playing in the play’s “Negro League.” It confused people greatly.
Yeah I’ve heard pretty good things about the new Satchel Paige bio by Larry Tye, but it’s on my stack and I haven’t gotten there yet. I really want to find out more about Paige’s three-inning novelty stint with the KC Athletics at (circa) age 58 in 1965. He allowed one hit (to Carl Yastremski) and no runs. At 58. And apparently he hadn’t really stopped pitching at any point between the end of his MLB career in 1953 and then.