Tag Archives: baseball

Wingnuts are reveling in the president’s wild pitch at the opening of the baseball season yesterday. Because socialist/Marxist/Kenyans can’t throw. Or something.

The owner of a New Jersey gun shop is angry that he won’t be allowed to sponsor a Little League team. Matthew Carmel’s son played in the South Orange-Maplewood Baseball League last year and he wanted to sponsor a team in the coming season. A sponsorship costs $300. The league committee rejected his offer, and Carmel thinks that it is …

The Windy City Times reports that 42 year-old Laura Ricketts has become the first openly gay co-owner of an American major league sports franchise. When Laura Ricketts and the rest of her family closed on the deal to purchase the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise last fall, the furthest thing from her mind was the impact this would have on the …

Five years after bobbing and weaving his way through Congressional hearings about steroid use in professional baseball, home run king Mark McGwire has finally ‘fessed up. “I’m sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids,” McGwire’s statement read. “I had good years when I didn’t take any and I had …

In 1923, their first season at the “House That Ruth Built,” the New York Yankees won the World Series. In 2009, their first season at the “House That Bloomberg Built With Over One Billion Dollars In Tax-Exempt Bonds,” the Yankees won the World Series.

San Francisco drag legend Donna Sachet made history last week when she became the first drag performer to sing the national anthem at a major league baseball game. The home team Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-4. I think this is the first time I’ve seen Donna without her trademark red dress.

The NY Mets were “justifiably freaked out” to realize they were staying in the same hotel as a furry convention during this week’s away games in Pittsburgh. Above, Mets announcer Kevin Burkhardt poses with a beaver. I think that’s a beaver. Anthrocon 2009 continues through Sunday. Pittsburgh continues in last place.

On Monday a man became the first person to streak across the diamond at the Mets new Citi Field stadium. Meh, boring, and I wasn’t even going to blog about it. But today comes news that the man faces a year in jail thanks to a 2005 law enacted by the city after a drug-addled Calvin Klein rushed the court …

Call me a bad New Yorker, but I find it a little giggle-worthy that the brand new fancy-schmancy Yankee Stadium, which was built with tax-exempt city bonds at a cost of $1.5B, is poised to be a record-setting home run factory. This, despite “expert” wind evaluations that promised the new field would be no more batter-friendly than the old one. …

Former star New York Mets player Roberto Alomar is being sued for $15M by an ex-girlfriend who claims he had unprotected sex with her while knowing he had full-blown AIDS. Considered by some to be baseball’s greatest second baseman ever, Alomar retired at the top of his game in 2005 due to health issues. Baseball great Roberto Alomar has full-blown …

The Los Angeles Dodger’s second baseman, Jeff Kent, has donated $15K to Yes On 8. Jeff Kent, 40, who played second base for the Los Angeles Dodgers this season, has stepped into the emotional world of same-sex marriage, giving $15,000 to backers of the California proposition on Tuesday’s ballot that would ban it. In a disclosure filed with the California …

The Yankees held their annual hazing of the rookies this weekend, forcing the newbies to dress as the Village People and parade around Boston. I watched it on the news, wondering if there might be a faint hint of homophobia in making the players dress as the most famous gay group of all time, but everybody seemed to be having …

Yesterday the final game was played at Yankee Stadium, the most venerated sports venue in American history. It will only grow with time, like Lou Gehrig’s farewell, Don Larsen’s masterpiece and Reggie Jackson’s third home run in a World Series game. Untold thousands will say they were there the night the curtain fell on baseball’s grandest stage. It happened Sunday …

As he threw out the first pitch of the season, our ignoble leader was roundly booed by the crowd of 40,000 at the Nationals game. (Via – Towleroad)

You gotta hand it to the Red Sox fans for their evil taunting of Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, who made the tabloids over the weekend after being photographed cavorting with a chestally-enhanced blonde stripper who was Not His Wife. Hundreds of fans at Boston’s Fenway Park showed up with these masks during this weekend’s game in a promotion run by …