Probably not the best $10 I ever spent, but hey. If I ever make it back to Detroit, I’ll know I was in some small part responsible for civic greatness. Follow up — Best song about Detroit: KISS’ “Detroit Rock City,” Rancid’s “Detroit,” Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues,” Dire Straits’ “Telegraph Road”, or basically any Eminem song?
No. 22 on Patrick Flood’s list is perhaps my all-time favorite Met, Dave Magadan. Underrated in every way, really. Plus I met him when I was eight and he was signing autographs at a batting cage in the Five Towns once. Seemed like a nice guy.
Not sure I agree with all the rankings but the effort is noble regardless. Via Eno Sarris.
New Padres outfielder Cameron Maybin tweeted something rather explicit about his experience digesting Panda Express. One problem: the CEO of Panda Express also owns the Padres.
Craig Calcaterra explains why he expects that today’s negotiations deadline was a soft one and that Albert Pujols will eventually get his extension from the Cardinals, and it all seems to make sense. But the Mets have all that money coming off the books next year and a young first baseman with a good arm who’s supposedly willing and able to move to right field, so, you know, we can dream.
FuquaManuel at Phillies Blog The Good Fight does a nice job dispelling some of the myths about starting rotations that I often rail against here.
“Irrespective of your gothic aspects, you have passed something on in
terms of your expression, mien and general comportment that is unusual
and rewarding.”
Interesting stuff vaguely pertaining to the Albert Pujols negotiations.
Somehow I missed this when it broke a couple years ago: Billy Ripken has no one to blame but himself for being known to a generation of fans as “[expletive] Face.” Also, he gave copies of his infamous Fleer card to the groomsmen in his wedding. Lots of good stuff in here.
There’s only one new one and it’s really not all that embarrassing in the grand scheme of embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels, but hey, baseball season’s starting and it has probably been a while since you’ve browsed our compendium of embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels.
Tedquarters 