Former Major League Baseball player Sammy Sosa insists he’s not trying to turn into Michael Jackson, but does say he’s undergoing skin bleaching. Photos of Sosa looking pasty appeared recently and it was not because of Halloween.
“He is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin,” former Cubs employee Rebecca Polihronis, who talks frequently with [...]
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Sammy Sosa’s new improved(?) bleached look
Dem in White House = Yankees title
I don’t have much to say about the New York Yankees winning the World Series in six games over the Philadelphia Phillies since I watched almost none of it. But I did find an interesting coincidence — the Yankees only win when there is a Democrat in the White House.
Since winning the 1958 World Series [...]
Joe’s World Series Preview
We’ve got quite a matchup for the 2009 World Series: the New York Yankees vs. the Philadelphia Phillies. Broadway vs. Broad Street. The Bronx vs. South Philly. The City That Never Sleeps vs. The City Of Brotherly Love. The Big Apple vs. The Big Scrapple. (I thought of that last one myself, although I’m pretty [...]
Pick the World Series winner
The World Series starts Wednesday in New York featuring the Yankees against the Phillies. I take the Yankees in six. Takw our World Series poll:
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Photo: A-Rod squeezes Jeter’s butt
Yep, the headline is accurate. From a screen capture of the Yankees-Angels game sent on the Twitter feed of Bill Simmons of ESPN. Thanks to Druggy Bear for the link. Provide your own caption:
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Drag performer sings anthem at SF Giants game
The Twitter feed for the Queers United blog (”the activist blog uniting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersexual, Asexual community & Allies in the fight for equality”) had a link to this blog post from Joe.My.God. Donna Sachet, described on the blog as a “San Francisco drag legend,” sang the national anthem before a [...]
Video: Amazing baseball prediction comes true
Mike Blowers is an analyst for the Seattle Mariners baseball broadcasts. Each game he picks who he thinks will be the player of the game. Sunday, he highlighted little-known Matt Tuiasosopo, predicting he would hit his first Major League home run. Into left-center field. Into the second deck. On his second at-bat. On a 3-1 [...]
A Gay Athlete’s Life: Ballplayer calling it quits
I have been meaning to write about one of my favorite blogs, A Gay Athlete’s Life, which details the story of a closeted Major League Baseball player. His announcement Tuesday that he is likely calling it quits for his career is as good a time as any.
The blog, which is four years old, deals with [...]
Boston Red Sox endorse hazing
There are few stories that come across my inbox that make me more mad than hazing stories. The latest comes from yet another sports franchise that “prides” itself on its hazing tradition: The Boston Red Sox. In the latest round, last Thursday they forced the rookies to dress up like characters from The Wizard Of [...]
Nats’ cap a sign of terrorism?
I’ve written many times here about the travails of the Washington Nationals, the team with the worst record in baseball this season. Now, courtesy of Deadspin and the Washington Post, comes news that the Nationals’ “W” logo has been construed as a symbol of terrorism. It seems that Tyler Allard, an aide to Rep. [...]
Unassisted triple play ends game
For only the second time in Major League Baseball history, a game ended on an unassisted triple play. It was turned by Eric Brunlett of the Philadelphia Phillies in a 9-7 win Sunday against the New York Mets. The only other one occurred in 1927. Video:
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Cubs fans: losers, not so lovable
Well, well, well. Once again we have one of those moments that, if it happened in Philadelphia, would result in days of media outrage. Since it didn’t, even if it is talked about on ESPN, MLB Network, et al, it’ll be forgotten by tomorrow.
With the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the [...]
Fox screws up Obama’s first pitch
Leave it to Fox Sports to screw up what should be the easiest shot in baseball: The ceremonial first pitch. But that’s just what the bozos did at tonight’s All-Star Game in St. Louis, when we saw President Obama, clad in a Chicago White Sox jacket, throw the first pitch.
Except, we never saw the whole [...]
Sad-sack “Natinals” fire manager
I don’t know how I missed this story, but in reading up on the firing of manager Manny Acta Sunday night by my favorite sad-sack team, the Washington Nationals, I found yet another embarrassing item: during a game in April, two players — Adam Dunn and Ryan Zimmerman — had their team’s name misspelled as [...]
‘Moneyball’ flick not quite dead yet
The Hollywood Reporter says that West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is going to take a shot at a draft of a script for Moneyball, the Columbia Pictures film that, if it ever gets made, would star Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane. The film was previously put in “turnaround” status by the [...]
