You thought you made it through the night unscathed. As soon as "The Bronx Is Burning" came on, you looked around at your family members with tears welling up in your eyes and a smile on your face, and you said: "We made it. I love you guys." Yes, you thought you were home free.
Wrong! Chris Berman isn't done with you yet -- he's here to make sure you get your fair share of silly nicknames and geographical references the day after the derby, too. If your head doesn't explode when Dusty Baker starts doing the "back back back" thing, well, you're a stronger man (or woman) than I.
(HT: Extra Mustard)

Yeah, sure, I understand that "this time it counts," meaning the All-Star game is treated as something that matters. Still, I don't care if an NL park is hosting the game; I want to see hitters hit and pitchers pitch. I don't even want to see a pitcher's name in the batting order, regardless of whether or not wood and pine tar actually touches their hands. It's just a stupid practice that needs to be scrapped.
Whoever said that the
I hate pretense. It's something that almost ruins NCAA athletics for me. Everybody carries on like Division I athletes are amateurs, that everyone follows an archaic recruiting guidebook, that no one cheats or slips people a little money here and there. None of it's true, of course, and it's people that argue for the NCAA in comparison to, say, the NBA, that spout that convenient and annoying tripe. At least in the NBA, there is no pretense of amateurism. People are paid what the market (either rightly or wrongly) values them, something the NCAA will never do for its thousands of revenue-generating athletes.
Lots of players that refuse to take part in the
This week I said that
Let me make this clear: I don't like
What home run derby curse? 


























