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Pirates 8, Marlins 0: “You see? You see?! He’s not a machine, he’s a man. He’s a man!” The Pirates play Rocky to Florida’s Ivan Drago after the Nats spent the weekend as Apollo Creed. Translation for those of you under 35: The Pirates throw their third shutout in four games and put a halt […]

Documenting the atrocities since 2007.

Sorry folks, lots of meetings and other nastiness today, so I won’t be spewing any other opinions until tomorrow morning’s recaps. Probably, anyway.

So I was playing outside with my son on Saturday. Nice sunny day here in Ohio, the kind of early Spring day on which mothers remember that sunscreen and hats and sunglasses and asbestos underwear are required lest their children immediately turn into a tumor. Bald husbands too, so Carlo (a/k/a Son of Shyster, a/k/a […]

You read something horrifying like this and your second reaction — after the horror — is to wonder how on Earth Mike Coolbaugh and Ray Chapman are the only two folks to die by thrown or batted balls in professional play. UPDATE: The estimable Mark Armour notes that (as I kind of suspected, actually, but […]

Reds 4, Astros 2: Micah Owings has a 7.20 ERA for the Reds this year. Yesterday he pinch hit and hit a two-run double that proved to be the game-winner. Management consultants refer to this phenomenon as a “misallocation of resources.” Blue Jays 1, Athletics 0: The A’s were shutout for the third time this […]

The suits are still trying to figure out if my stuff belongs on the Red Network or the Blue Network. And they still won’t let me begin my posts with a second inversion C Major triad. The Marlins are on the march! Yankee Stadium: Meh. Can the Blue Jays keep it up? Why is everyone […]

Indians 10, Yankees 2: I missed it live, but thankfully STO shows Indians day game replays in the evening. Having known the outcome in advance, I could focus on other things. Mostly I was fixated on the view of the primo seats just to the third base side of home that were visible during every […]

Little known fact: the guy at NBC who approved adding me to the blog recently left abruptly after the girl with which he was smitten, in an attempt to let him down easy, told him that she needed to be with someone more selfless. Apparently he joined Greenpeace and, last anyone heard, was seen speeding […]

Back from hiatus. Son of Shyster — or ShysterBoy, if you prefer — is back to breathing like a normal human being, so things are basically back to normal. Steroids: is there anything they can’t do? Red Sox 8, Athletics 2: Knuckleballers should be like fire extinguishers: everyone should have at least one around at […]