3 of the top 5 teams are in the AL Beast. We the best, ni66a!

Have a so hood evening, and don’t forget to tell someone you love them.

It’s a slow week here so I figured might as well just puff piece it up.  This isn’t about my favorite all-time athletes because numbers 1-1,000 would be Bernie Kosar, but the guys I would skip class or meetings to watch.  I don’t necessarily like all these players, but if they were at bat or on the field, I wasn’t getting up for anything.

Barry Bonds: I HATE Barry Lamar Bonds.  I think he’s the single biggest asshole in all of sports and watching him get his just desserts makes me happy, even if it’s completely frivolous and a waste of our government’s money.

But when he was at bat?  Holy fuck was that man the best.

Normally I don’t care about what athletes say or do when they’re not on the field, but in Bonds’ case, that was the single reason I hated him.  He was just THAT big of an asshole that I couldn’t root for him and look myself in the mirror later, but at the same time, if every single baseball player in history was available for a draft in their respective primes and I had the first overall pick, my list would have Bonds either first or second, behind Willie Mays.

Bonds, at the end of his career, was unlike anything ever seen in baseball.  His numbers?  Incomprehensible.  One can only imagine what they’d look like if pitchers actually pitched to him.  When he was at bat, I was watching, and for that brief one to three minute interlude, his talent was such that it made me forget that he was probably the biggest jerk on the planet.  Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t forget to check out our friend CRM and his MMA blog, Blood, Booze and Bruises.

Very cool site that has all sorts of info in neat lil graphics that make you go, “ooo.”

You could do something like this for any subject and I’d waste three hours looking at it.  This is very much in the vein of the Free Darko guys’ books The Macrophenomenal Something or Other I Can’t remember the Title Because it’s Long as Fuck, but you can go to freedarko.com and see what I’m talking about and yes I got lazy and stopped capitalizing shit even tho I’m still writing in italics.

Flip Flop Fly Ball.

Cubs 3, Pirates 1

Royals 4, Twins 2

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I love lists.

Today’s edition…top 5 scariest things that actually exist.

5. Cobras: Cobras scare the living piss out of me.  They’re fast as fuck, HUGE and can kill you without even thinking about it.  I don’t like snakes, man…I don’t like em one bit.

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Is Sergio Kindle Toonces, the cat who could drive a car?

I say yes.

This is Indians owner Larry Dolan...I'll give a sawbuck to the man who brings me his head.

So the Tribe traded Mark DeRosa this weekend for…

…wait for it…

a relief pitcher with a mid-90’s fastball, wicked slider and…an ERA over 4.40 in the shitty division and a player to be named later which, based on standings projections, could turn out to be the 3rd best prospect in the Cardinals farm system.

Pardon me if I lack enthusiasm, Indians organization.

See…I’m what you would call a wise investor.  I don’t like to spend money on things that I know I won’t get a return on because, frankly, I’d be stupid to.  I know I’m not going to get my money’s worth from this shitty organization for more than a few reasons, and I pray you pay attention.

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In the 251 Interleague games that dotted the Major League schedule in two stints (May 22-24 and June 12-28), the American League went 137-114 (.546) and nine of the 14 AL clubs had winning records. The 2009 season marked the sixth straight campaign in which the AL won the season series, extending its all-time Interleague lead to 1,673-1,534 (.522).

Loyal reader, it is the time of the year when the American family leaves the comforts of their home and braves the American Highway whilst wearing a suit and hat.  Yes, the American family is coming into his own as a social unit and the summer time allows him to use some of his growing discretionary income for travel and pleasure.  As such, the MLJ family will be taking a bit of a hiatus this week while we explore the great American West.  I’m sure there will be an occasional post or two but I, for one am going to be embracing the real world for a bit* and disconnecting from the digital world.  I will check in occasionally via magical internet phone but that will be the extent of it.

Feel free to check in from time to time to see if there’s anything new up.

*In fucking Idaho…it’s like time travelling back to 1986.