Today In Rotten Baseball Ideas: The Golden At-Bat

The Golden At-Bat rule could give MLB a new shine. But is it worth it? I don’t remember where this theory came from and I’m too lazy to try looking it up, but for years I’ve heard people say that when a headline ends with a question, the answer is almost always no. This is …

I Think You’ve Just Crossed A Line, MLB Audio

On this final day of the Major League Baseball regular season, I would like to take a second to offer the heartiest of fuck yous to the MLB app for cutting away from the legendary Bob Uecker while he was in the midst of giving his feelings on the end of the Oakland Athletics so …

We Have Breaking News About The Blue Jays Lineup. Carissa Got Her Diploma Again!

Time for your annualish Steve loses his shit at MLB Audio for dinking with the broadcasts and fucking everything up post. I swear I could almost start an entire website devoted to only this if I knew that doing so wouldn’t cause me to bust a blood vessel and die. The reason I’m flipping my …

April’s Bloopers And The Leafs

Speaking of bloopers, how about them Leafs? Yeah, low blow. One that I’m not sure how much they deserve considering that Auston Mathews had one of the best years a Leaf has ever had and they made the playoffs yet again. But then they did what they always seem to do, forget that they’re any …

Everything Is On The Table Doesn’t Mean Go Ahead And Eat The Candles

Over the years I’ve become, for the most part, the sort of sports fan that tries not to get super worked up or bent out of shape about every decision that a manager or a coach does or doesn’t make. Sometimes I get a little hot because this or that wasn’t what I would have …

Yes You Can Do It! You Know You Can Do It! Baby All You Gotta Do Is Try!

Of all the things I may have expected to get firmly lodged in my head this morning, I can safely say that Guy Lafleur teaching me how to score a goal to a soundtrack of disco music complete with cheerful, encouraging background vocals was not among them. And yet, here we are. In 1979, an …

Rogers Goes Back To Half Assing Blue Jays Radio

Sportsnet’s Blue Jays radio broadcasters will call road games remotely from Toronto There’s still time for you to change your mind on this, Rogers. Please do that. And let’s get Bowen and Ralph traveling with the Leafs again while we’re at it. Sports coverage, like a lot of coverage, loses something when it’s not done …