Game 1 of the World Series, Dodgers vs. Yankees.
You couldn’t have written a more amazing ending. Freddie’s hit will live on in my dreams for the rest of my days! Just unbelievable.
(I’ve already rewatched this like 34 times today)
Last Game Vibes
I went to the Coliseum to watch the Oakland A’s play their last home game. I’ve have so many great memories at this stadium over the past two decades or so that I’ve lived in the Bay Area.
One of my favorite memories: Taking Benson to Bark at the Park in 2014
Bark at the Park in Oakland
I took Benson to the Oakland A’s “Bark at the Park” game yesterday. He was rather confused about baseball.
(Side note: What an AWESOME event!)
San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera banned for PED use…
I’m not one to gloat (okay, I sure am), but let’s take a trip back in recent time. Back to the good old dog days of summer, July 27th, 2012.
A surprised Melky Cabrera [San Francisco Giants outfielder] categorically denied an Internet rumor that he had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, saying neither he nor the Players’ Association has received any such information from Major League Baseball.
The article continues…
Cabrera said he had nothing to be worried about and credited his success to hard work. He speculated that perhaps a Dodgers fan created the rumor as a way to distract the club heading into the big, three-game series between the two rivals.
That’s a pretty awesome conspiracy theory!
Just over 3 weeks later, the sports news today is all about:
All-Star Game MVP Melky Cabrera was suspended for 50 games without pay Wednesday after the San Francisco Giants outfielder tested positive for testosterone
[…]
Flashing bright orange spikes, Cabrera singled and hit a two-run homer last month in the NL’s 8-0 All-Star win, which secured home-field advantage for the World Series.
Oops!
It’s going to be especially awesome when the Dodgers get home field advantage for the World Series later this year. Thanks for the kind words, Melky!
Relativistic Baseball
Via: http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? Let’s set aside the question of how we got the baseball moving that fast. We’ll suppose it’s a normal pitch, except in the instant the pitcher releases the ball, it magically accelerates to 0.9c. From that point onward, everything proceeds according to normal physics…
Ron Paul in an Astros rainbow uniform (1976)
Almost nobody likes Congress. The polls say so. But I’ll say this for the federal legislature: Republicans and Democrats play each other in a baseball game every year, and that partly makes up for whatever it is they do the rest of the time.
Back in December, Summer Anne Burton of NotGraphs published a wonderful post called “GOP Presidential Candidates and Baseball” that explored how each of the hopefuls has been affiliated with the national pastime.