Beijing Messes With Baseball Tradition
August 1, 2008
Olympics and baseball just don’t jive.
In a story by the Associated Press extra-inning games in Beijing are turning our supposed past-time into a mockery due to time constraints for the viewing audience.
How so? If a game goes to the 11th inning (and beyond) then runners will automatically start at 1st and 2nd base. In addition, teams may start at any point in the batting order.
“For example, a team that opts to lead off with its No. 3 hitter would begin with its No. 1 batter on second base and its No. 2 hitter on first with no outs. The 12th inning and beyond would begin where the previous lineup left off, with the two hitters ahead of the batter scheduled to lead off that inning being placed on first and second bases.”
Baseball and softball have been nixed in the 2012 Olympics. Why bother in Beijing if we are going to clobber the most exciting part of the game?
Cut This: What’s Going On Here?
July 29, 2008
It’s once again time to Cut This. Take a look at this odd picture we managed to dig up and post a caption of your own. Tell us what the subjects in the picture are thinking, or just give us a funny sentence about what’s going on. This one should be interesting….
Wasting Time: Jewels Of The Internet
July 24, 2008
When you actually work for a living one’s mind starts to wander. Sure, at first you’re focused and diligently plugging away at your job, but eventually everyone experiences the lull that hits after just a few months. It’s the same thing day in and day out. Repetition is beginning to kill you. So you start doing what pretty much everyone does nowadays: you turn to internet videos to get you through the day.
I recognize this, and therefore this is why each week I will select a video for your viewing pleasure. And I highly recommend you watch it at work. For the first week, I present you with two. The first one is a local commercial from Alabama by Sammy Stephens, who would love for you to visit his flea market… It’s just like a mini mall!
Now that you’ve seen that jewel of the internet, check out a video that makes the first one even better. It’s a comical remake of the mini mall rap. Hope you love it as much as I do.
Wow, it’s just amazing. I bet that’ll have everyone coming back for more! Until next week, you can find it on The Dagger. I’m talkin’ about The Dagger. It’s just like, it’s just like, it’s just like a news blog. Hey, hey!
A trip down Oriole batting stance memory lane
July 17, 2008
Do kids still imitate the batting stances of their favorite baseball players? I know when I was a kid, we used to see who could imitate Eddie Murray and Al Bumbry. Check out the guy in this video to see how close he gets…
Cut This: You tell us what they are thinking
July 16, 2008
Welcome to the first installment of “Cut This”, a new feature on The Dagger’s Twist blog. Here we will simply post a picture we find on the net, and you can tell us what the subjects in the picture are really thinking by leaving a comment.
And for our inaugural picture…
What Drives Me Crazy!
July 15, 2008
The trend in Major League Baseball for players to look like bums. What is the deal with wearing your pants eight inches too long so they bunch up around your cleats or actually are under your heel?! The shirts are too big, the pants are too long and it seems most of the guys are wearing them this way. If the ballplayers don’t wear them this way, they wear their pants with the end up around the knees and baseball socks showing from the knee on down. What happened to baseball players that looked like ballplayers? Stirrup socks with white socks under them. Shirts that looked like they were measured for the player and not obtained from a baseball shirt give-away-night. You know what I mean: all t-shirts ever given away are double XL!
My guess is that these guys don’t go out on the town looking like they’ve never seen a tailor! I can’t imagine A-Rod wearing his pants so long that he’s walking on them or that his shirt is not custom tailored when he’s visiting the Material Girl. Why do the owners allow the players to look like this? I know the answer to that question and that answer is the Players Union.
We can all thank St. Louis Cardinal George Hendrick for starting the “trend”. It would be interesting to hear from George, how he feels now that his trend is so widespread. He coaches first base for the Tampa Bay Rays. But alas, George ain’t talking. You see, George Hendrick doesn’t talk to the media and hasn’t talked to the media since 1973.
George, you were a very good ballplayer but fashion and public speaking weren’t your forte.
Thanks a bunch George.
Taking A Stab At The Dream
July 13, 2008
Ever since I was a youngin’ I’ve had a goofy attitude and a love for comedy. Now that I’m a grown up, nothing has changed. I have watched every season of Last Comic Standing on NBC and periodically go to Magooby’s Joke House in Carney to see live acts. With a little encouragement from my co-workers, I will be taking a big step into the comedy realm soon.
Thursday, July 31, I will attempt to take the stage at Magooby’s to compete in an open mic night. The prize is a whopping $75 and an opening spot for a weekend act. But the prize for me will be seeing if stand-up comedy is something I can do. Will nerves eat me alive? Will I have a hard time coming up with material? I don’t know. But I’m willing to find out.
I have a feeling that if I can stand on a bright stage and talk coherently and make at least one person laugh, I will have one hell of a time. Screw the grand prize, I just want the satisfaction of knowing I can do it.
If anyone who reads this wants to come and see me sink or swim, show up at Magooby’s Joke House in Carney Thursday, July 31 for the 8 p.m. start time. Funny or not, I will be sweating on a stage.
Yeah, I’m a dork. This is the coolest thing I have read today…
June 11, 2008
…and I immediately had to try it.
A rogue retro-gamer at Google has apparently programmed the famous Konami code — the mother of all cheats, the giver of life and ammunition to small, spoiled children with poor motor control— into Google Reader. Just make sure you’re at the Home Page, then enter Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A. The result? A horizontally shrugging Ninja will pop-up in the sidebar (although I’d argue that it really should be a Contra-esque Schwarzenegger for optimal effect) and your unread items will be reset to 30… the same number of lives, of course, you’d get in the NES era once the code had been successfully entered.
from boingboing
Enough About the Women, What About the Latest In Men’s Golf Technology?
June 9, 2008
Meet the UroClub.
Imagine, giving the appearance of taking a practice swing, while both privately and confidentially, you are able to relieve yourself without any embarrassment! This can be accomplished easily while standing by the golf cart, as well. Have the confidence to drink whatever you wish during your game and not worry if you’ll make it to the clubhouse in time!
From Deadspin
Be careful riding your bike in Mexico…
June 3, 2008
