OFFICIAL THREAD: Funny baseball articles

[TheYankee]

Thought it might be fun to have a thread where we can post funny articles in the baseball world that you come across. I've been laughing myself to death the last 15 minutes reading over this gem from Page 2 of ESPN.com....

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...t&lid=tab5pos2

[edwardthomas34]

Lol.But nothing can compare to reading Bobby Jr's posts.

[Scooter10]

From The Sporting News: Giants Pitcher Garrett Broshuis suggests some New Year's Resolutions for baseball players.

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn...c.php?t=163934

[35Knucklecurve]

Thought it might be fun to have a thread where we can post funny articles in the baseball world that you come across. I've been laughing myself to death the last 15 minutes reading over this gem from Page 2 of ESPN.com....

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...t&lid=tab5pos2

Jason Marquis has a good arm and has been quite durable; I dare say there's no pitcher in baseball who takes a 13-run pounding quite the way Marquis does. Unfortunately for him, he's been pounded like a veal scallopini

This really cracked me up. Thanks for the link.

[hardrain]

On Sept. 21, 1923, Clarence Blethen, a 30-year-old rookie, stowed his false teeth in his back pocket while pitching, his usual practice. Later in the game, in the course of sliding into second base in order to break up a double play, he became the first known major league baseball player to bite himself in his own ass.



http://www.sptimes.com/2006/12/15/Sp...p_your_d.shtml
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[gdn]

This was awesome from the Page2 article:

• The Angels, with just one guy who drew more than 51 walks last year, two first-base prospects ready to play in the majors and a lineup that leans to the right, signed Shea Hillenbrand, who never walks, can play only first and hits right-handed.

[35Knucklecurve]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...htm?source=rss

The most important home-run call of Dave Flemming's young radio career turned into an all-time KNBR glitch, ruined by technical difficulties and historic bad timing.

The result: An apparent microphone malfunction Sunday wiped out almost all of Flemming's radio call of Barry Bonds' 715th home run, leaving listeners with only crowd reaction at the climax of the historic blast.
[snip]
Here's what KNBR (680 AM) listeners heard: ``Finley runs, the payoff pitch, a swing and a drive! Deep to cent . . .''

The Yankee Stadium ghosts apparently do take road trips.

[TheYankee]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...htm?source=rss


The Yankee Stadium ghosts apparently do take road trips.

I heard someone on FOXSports radio actually interview the guy and ask him about how it went down, and they also played the clip. Can you imagine if you were listening to that broadcast? Honestly, that must have been the most agonizing 15-20 seconds ever... sure, you heard the crowd yelling, but what if it was just off the centerfield wall? LOL. Priceless.

[destro]

heh slump buster!

[35Knucklecurve]

I heard someone on FOXSports radio actually interview the guy and ask him about how it went down, and they also played the clip. Can you imagine if you were listening to that broadcast? Honestly, that must have been the most agonizing 15-20 seconds ever... sure, you heard the crowd yelling, but what if it was just off the centerfield wall? LOL. Priceless.

Aw - I wish I would have heard it!

[Nova1]

According to a friend of Rafael Palmeiro's in a report in The Boston Globe, the former Oriole wants to return to baseball. Palmeiro, the highest-profile player ever to test positive for steroids, thinks he's done the time and should be able to return. On Aug. 1, 2005, Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days. He returned to the Orioles after the suspension but was out of baseball all of last year. Palmeiro, 42, thinks he can still hit.

The nerve of some people

[apolansk]

Peter Abraham makes fun of Roger Clemens here:
http://www.lohud.com/blogs/2007/01/s...urn-again.html

9. Yankees embark on road trip to Colorado and San Francisco and Clemens returns to Houston because Krazy and Korncob Clemens have Little League games. "No question that's important," Joe Torre says.

10. Clemens returns on June 26 in Camden Yards and two-hits the Orioles. Bernie Williams gets both hits for Baltimore before Clemens drills him in the back in the seventh inning then smashes a guitar over his head. "I didn't have a good view of it," Torre says. "I'm sure it's a misunderstanding."

11. Picked for the All-Star team even though he is only 2-0, Clemens skips the game because he promised Kerfluffle and Kriss Kross Clemens that he would take them to a movie. "Gibby and I used to go to movies, they're fun," Torre says.