N.Y. Times on Dodgertown

Article; Watch the slideshow as well - very depressing

read this while you realize Jon Leiber will never win one game for the Cubs (but the Cubs will still cruise to the N.L. Central crown)

I love the guy who created ballparkreviews.com - why you ask:

1.) Web graphics from 1999 but the site is still very current
2.) In every review - EVERY ONE - he complains about the carnival like sideshow acts before, after and during minor league games (I hate these too - if only minor league parks would only be populated by desperate baseball nerds then we wouldn't need Mascot Sumo Mud Wrestling presented by AutoZone)
3.) He gives Grayson an A
4.) He hates the redbrick facade b.s. that every stadium in the country has adopted since 1993 and thus finds real value in the new home of the Frisco Roughriders- I agree
5.) Likes the S.Island, N.Y.
6.) Best of all he doesn't use the hackery term: "Bushes" once - not once!!

i...uhh...i...

Roger Clemens doesn't know what a vegan is.

Pitchers and Catchers report soon....most of them to a bullshit state

George Will and Co. like to wax poetic about baseball, and spring and renewed hope and eternal optimism and similar cloying garbage when in reality that mythic ideal only ever occurred in one place: Dodgertown in Vero Beach Florida - it was baseball heaven (Fenway denied this honor due to abundant Massholes, Wrigely due to abundant skanks, Ebbets Field due to being torn down in 1961)

so does baseball hold onto this tradition (because Jesus Christ does baseball love it tradition - almost as much as it loves its arcane worthless statistics )no it throws its one true remaining tradition overboard so the Dodgers can move to wait..for it wait for it: Arizona!!

Arizona is the state must devoid of tradition; it's a giant strip mall created in 1988 - even it's "native son" John McCain only moved there in 1982 so he could win a senate seat - the place goes against everything spring training used to be about

Let's see what Glendale, Arizona new home to the Dodgers offers!!


1.) One of these!! No fucking way.
2.) What if I want Italian? Taken care of.
3.) How about if I want some crappy electronic goods? Done. And don't forget to check out the Arrowhead Towne Center.

Am I allowed to laugh at this?

mlb.com - Video posted of Pedro at cockfight

or do I have to frown and wag my finger?

they still have one of the lowest payrolls which is bad

exterior of new Nationals stadium: no cloying brick facade - what a concept!! should be the best post-Camden yards stadium

he's back

if you listened very carefully during the Duke-Maryland game last week (and who didn't) a game Duke won by 9 after being down 9 at the half (18 point swing this is good) you could hear my old friend: angry suburban middle-aged maryland fan - the same guy you could hear yelling throughout the 2005 Duke-Md. game was back yelling just loud enough to be heard on the Fox broadcast - look I don't know much about angry suburban middle-aged maryland fan (aside from the fact that over-the-back calls get him really angry) but I guarantee you this: his 14-year-old daughter is sexually active

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