Barry Bonds: Real-life misanthrope and social media genius
How did the most hated man in all of sport become the happiest guy on the internet?
By Andrew Pridgen
Barry Bonds has always been known for a kind of calculated obtuseness. In the ‘90s and early 2000s, when he came to prominence as the greatest hitter of his generation and arguably, all time, the media both in the Bay Area—and...
Don’t Pay for Production: The Tragedy of the Philadelphia Phillies
Now that baseball's messaging is being controlled by the MLB, the professional sport in the U.S. which relies most on its history seems to be turning its back on it in favor of...Process.
By Kyle Magin
Baseball’s a son of a bitch.
The Philadelphia Phillies get mocked for paying for their 2008 World Series rings seven years later with the bloated, suffocating...
There’s no crying in A’s-ball
In Oakland, no change of ownership/no new stadium means no PSLs. No $18 sandwich at Crazy Crab'z. No weighty free-agent contracts. And a family of four can attend, eat (hot dog AND peanuts!) and drink for $60. Plus Barry Zito is on Alert-5 Aircraft in AAA Nashville. So who needs a goddamn trophy?
By Andrew Pridgen
When I was 12, the...
The Trinity of West Coast Baseball
Is this heaven? No, it's California.
By Kyle Magin
There’s a place, somewhere near the sun’s resting place, where baseball is still told as a story.
Octogenarians and a sexagenarian do the telling in tasteful suits on TV and over the airwaves. They contextualize Yasiel Puig or Madison Bumgarner’s dazzling ability in baseball’s century-old saga with charming anecdotes woven in and...
Hunter Pence’s return is uncertain as is the Giants’ 2015 campaign
San Francisco’s emotional and statistical leader is sidelined till August. But will he be the same when he gets back in the lineup?
By Andrew Pridgen
Unless they can steal one on Sunday Night Baseball, the Giants are in danger of finishing a six-game East Coast swing winless; losing three close games in Miami before wilting in the crushing humidity of...
Down with Wet Newspapers
The game has evolved. Maybe it’s time for DH haters to evolve too.
By Kyle Magin
National League loyalists fetishize pitchers hitting.
Their backwards-ass rule requiring pitchers to hit instead of allowing a stronger, professional designated hitter to step into the box is worn like a badge of honor with the NL set.
They will tell you their league never evolved because...
Don’t want pitchers to hit? Are you Scherzer?
How being forced to hit has dialed Max Scherzer's game and propelled him to become baseball's best.
By Andrew Pridgen
Annie Savoy: What do you believe then?
Crash Davis: Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated...
