I kind of hope that happens. I like watching Pujols enough that I’d gladly suffer through him destroying Mets pitching 18 times a year to get to see him more often, and to see him destroying Phillies pitching 18 times a year. A lineup with Pujols, Hanley Ramirez, Mike Stanton and Logan Morrison would be pretty nuts. Plus maybe the Marlins would move Gaby Sanchez to third to help maintain their tradition of awesome hitting and poor defense.
For years now, I’ve been operating under the assumption that I could boast the world’s most exhaustive gallery of embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels.
The page is the most popular one on this site, and one of the few accomplishments of which I am wholeheartedly proud. Someday I will retire from blogging, and then years later someone will spot some news item about Cole Hamels and say, “Hey, remember all those embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels that guy collected?” And I am that guy. The embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels, I thought, would be my humble online legacy.
But now, thanks to the diligent work of Patrick Flood, I know I have more work to do. There’s another site on the Internet with even more embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels than I have: ColeHamels.com.
Hamels’ personal website boasts gallery upon gallery of embarrassing photos of the man, enough to prove my suspicion that he is either trolling me or just absolutely does not give a s#$! how he is depicted on the Internet.
I’d prefer not to incur a cease-and-desist from the Hamels Foundation, so I limited myself to four photos grabbed from that site to share in the archive. Go check them out, but really, check out all of Cole Hamels’ galleries — especially this one.
And of course, whenever you come to a detour on the road to your goal — whether that goal be collecting the most embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels or some less noble pursuit — remember these words of wisdom from Hamels’ site and, presumably, high-school yearbook: “It is the journey, not the destination.”
So we beat on.
In the bottom of the seventh inning in the first game of the double-header between the Mets and Phillies on Saturday, Valentino Pascucci crushed a game-tying pinch-hit homer off Cole Hamels.
Look at it. It’s beautiful.
I was listening to the game in my car when it happened because I was on my way into Manhattan to pick up about 15 pounds of pork. I had to pull over to watch the highlight on my phone.
Our man Catsmeat grabbed the obligatory Cole Hamels reaction shot, which has been added to the archive so we never forget it.
Some monstrosity believed to be the Marlins’ new logo leaked onto the Internet last week, inspiring all sorts of snark and Twitter outrage — as most things do. I tried a more progressive approach, offering a solution instead of a teardown:
I thought about creating a logo that fit the specifications I outlined, but then I got distracted by something shiny. Luckily, our man Catsmeat mocked one up:
Well done, sir.
Three “urbanist entrepreneurs” want to turn an abandoned below-ground trolley station on the Lower East Side into a sun-lit park.
Renderings crack me up. Also: This is a pretty cool idea that seems likely to prove unfeasible.
Via Jelisa Castrodale.
Randy at the Apple presents merchandise celebrating Miguel Batista’s 100th win. This is awesome:
Just this morning I parked my car behind one with a DJ3K bumper sticker. That’s a pretty big commitment to the Derek Jeter 3,000-hit campaign, but it’s no Melky Car-brera.
You know what that is? It’s a dolphin sucking a fish out of a conch shell it used as a trap. This is happening with increased frequency, and it’s utterly terrifying.
Via Andrew.
Tedquarters 