It’s been a rough year for the official MLJ Intern. But I choose not to focus on the negatives. That’s both my blessing and my curse. I tend to block out the bad. I’ll talk about it and joke about it, but generally, I don’t let stuff like “losing a job” bring me down. I really don’t sweat the big stuff. It’s the little things that bother me. In the grand scheme of things, I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing. Oh well. I’m going to pwn 2009. You can book that shit. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to diversify the coverage of the teams here at Major League Jerk, I am going to provide a regular series called “Getting to Know”. My intent is to interview a fan of a team and ask them what we need to know about that team. If you want to be the first one on your block to be interviewed by me, the Great RomanWarHelmet, please send an e-mail to majorleaguejerk@gmail.com and put Roman in the subject. Well, in my efforts to tweak Hef at every possible moment I have decided that it is important to get to know Hef’s least favorite team. Hef has covered them in a very sinister, mean spirited way and I thought if i could find one voice, one lone solitary voice, to yell in the face of the big bad Hefler It could only benefit you, the readers of Major League Jerk. Well, one brave soul has stepped forward, The Nug. That’s right The Nug from The Sometimes Daily Nug. His unbelievable hatred of Hef and all things Hef made him step right up and take on this arduous task. When I asked his thoughts on the DBags he responded, “Who? They play in the NL West? No Shit” and then we laughed and talked about how cute it was that little cities had big league teams. So let us wait no longer to get to know…The Los Angeles Dodgers. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to diversify the coverage of the teams here at Major League Jerk, I am going to provide a regular series called “Getting to Know”. My intent is to interview a fan of a team and ask them what we need to know about that team. If you want to be the first one on your block to be interviewed by me, the Great RomanWarHelmet, please send an e-mail to majorleaguejerk@gmail.com and put Roman in the subject. Well, this edition should be a special treat, for Hef. When embarking on my journey to get to know every team in the Major Leagues, I put up the Jerk signal for help in my quest. So far I have interviewed a Long Island guy about the Braves, an Arkansas guy who grew up in Wisconsin about the Cardinals, a guy who grew up in Chicago but moved to Milwaukee about the Cubs and a few other guys that actually live in close proximity to their teams. Not that any of this should matter, it takes a real fan to not live anywhere near his team and still follow it religiously. Right? Right. So with that said we found a guy who grew up in New Jersey (America’s armpit, home of the no left hand turn) to talk about the White Sox. But it is not just anybody. It is internet celebrity Dave Lozo of davelozo.com. Well maybe internet celebrity is a bit strong. I will say internet gadfly and observer of all things sports and not sports. Whatever that hell that means. Anyway check his site, it is unique. Who else would prattle on endlessly about some chick’s vagina and how it needs more TV time? Me probably, but Hef won’t allow it so I let Dave carry the water for us all. OK. Enough with the shenanigans. Let’s get to know…The Chicago White Sox. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to diversify the coverage of the teams here at Major League Jerk, I am going to provide a regular series called “Getting to Know”. My intent is to interview a fan of a team and ask them what we need to know about that team. If you want to be the first one on your block to be interviewed by me, the Great RomanWarHelmet, please send an e-mail to majorleaguejerk@gmail.com and put Roman in the subject. Well, this edition is going to be a tad different than the rest. I solicited TBL commenter nwilson26 to help me learn about the Royals. Well, apparently no one listens to nwilson and he got very very wordy in answering my questions. He makes me look like NickP with his amount of words. So let’s just say this one is going to be a bit long. But I will say, I think you may like this edition best of all. Truthfully, I didn’t know very much about the Royals. With the other teams, I had a pretty fair knowledge going in. This time, I learned a whole lot. So let us continue our voyage into Missouri and get to know…The Kansas City Royals. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to diversify the coverage of the teams here at Major League Jerk, I am going to provide a regular series called “Getting to Know”. My intent is to interview a fan of a team and ask them what we need to know about that team. If you want to be the first one on your block to be interviewed by me, the Great RomanWarHelmet, please send an e-mail to majorleaguejerk@gmail.com and put Roman in the subject. In this addition we are going to take a look at a team that I hate for various reasons, The St. Louis Cardinals. Growing up in the 80’s, they played in the same division as the Mets and had memorable playoff races in 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1988. The Mets got Keith Hernandez from the Cardinals for the pu pu platter. The Cardinals won in 1982 and made the series in 1985 and 1987. The Mets won in 1986. Darryl Strawberry called St. Louis a “cow town”. Then with the division changes, the rivalry went away. But it did heat up again at certain times, like the Mets NLCS win over them in 2000 and the Cardinals NLCS win in Game 7 over the Mets in 2006. Fuck Yadier Molina. Anywho, I asked the only Cardinal fan I knew to help me, Arkbadger of TBL commenting fame. So with out any further ado, let’s get to know…The St. Louis Cardinals. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to diversify the coverage of the teams here at Major League Jerk, I am going to provide a regular series called “Getting to Know”. My intent is to interview a fan of a team and ask them what we need to know about that team. If you want to be the first one on your block to be interviewed by me, the Great RomanWarHelmet, please send an e-mail to majorleaguejerk@gmail.com and put Roman in the subject. In this addition we are breaking tradition (it’s not really a long tradition so fuck it) and getting someone to talk about a team that is currently being rooted for by a MLJ author. clown loves the Yankees. Yes, that’s right. You didn’t think he liked baseball? Neither did I, but apparently he loves them, even though he thinks they win the World Series every year. We haven’t had the heart to tell him it’s been a while. So when our pal Sparty asked if he could be interviewed about the Yankees, I didn’t see much of a problem with it. They have had as much coverage as Pittsburgh Pirates have had on this site. Sparty is a commenter du jour. He comments at the Big Lead, here and at his own blog, Sparty and Friends. So let’s start the “Sparty Party” and get to know….the New York Yankees. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to diversify the coverage of the teams here at Major League Jerk, I am going to provide a regular series called “Getting to Know”. My intent is to interview a fan of a team and ask them what we need to know about that team. If you want to be the first one on your block to be interviewed by me, the Great RomanWarHelmet, please send an e-mail to majorleaguejerk@gmail.com and put Roman in the subject. Well, this installment should be a very special treat to two people that comment here. Neither of whom I asked to do this. Instead, when I asked the MLJ crew over breakfast at the MLJ compound was there anybody they knew that could help me, Stigs piped up and claimed he had a friend that would do a great job with the Cubs. After clown pointed out to Stigs that he had no friends, we all laughed. Stigs cried and then had this guy contact me. It turns out he actually knew Stigs, and while he wouldn’t call him a “friend” he said he did know him and was comfortable answering my questions. The person in question goes by the pseudonym The Jammer. The Jammer was very helpful and I thank him for his words. So without further ado, let’s get to know…The Chicago Cubs. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to diversify the coverage of the teams here at Major League Jerk, I am going to provide a regular series called “Getting to Know”. My intent is to interview a fan of a team and ask them what we need to know about that team. If you want to be the first one on your block to be interviewed by me, the Great RomanWarHelmet, please send an e-mail to majorleaguejerk@gmail.com and put Roman in the subject. Well today I bring you our first team, The Baltimore Orioles. Due to the bitching of MLJ commenter and gadfly, illformula, I have decided to base the whole future of this project on him. If he sucks, blame him, he wanted this. I would have been perfectly content telling you why Fernando Tatis may be the second coming of Christ. So anywho, let’s get to know….The Baltimore Orioles. Read the rest of this entry »