We at The Dugout are not finished kvetching over the Yankees' abandonment of their old stadium. Sure, building a new stadium makes long-term financial sense, but I'm not sure why that should stop me from whining. I am going to stand on a milk carton and shriek, "THE YANKEES ONLY CARE ABOUT MONEY" over and over for the rest of my days until I die friendless and alone.
Gammons: "Chris, you beat the crap out of your girlfriend, put her in the hospital, and bit her on the arm. Was it hard filming those Doublemint Gum commercials?"
Brown: "It has been a difficult time for all of us" etc.
Anyway, nothing we could write would be as easy-going and predictable as the actual Gammons/Rodriguez interview, so tonight's Dugout is just me copy and pasting text from the transcript into the field next to the images. Just try to picture Pete gnawing on his upper lip like he does while you read.
Hi, everybody! I've been sleeping all day and just woke up moments ago. What's been happening in the world of sports? Heh, did the Orioles bolster their bullpen? Let me jump over and find out what's going o-
Oh. OH.
And here I was prepared to do another strip about the Pirates. Tonight's Dugout is after the jump. Move along, nothing to see here.
In what amounts to pretty much the only interesting sports story of the day, Joe Torre has taken it upon himself to write a tell-all book dismissing his former ballclub like so much prostate cancer.
In the book, Joe reveals that Alex Rodriguez is a weird creep, Brian Cashman isn't 100 percent on the level, and George Steinbrenner cares more about the "Yankees" than he does about the people who make up the Yankees. The title of the book, if you're interested in reading it, is Things We Already Knew*.
It's not easy being CC Sabathia. He's the most scrutinized object in the baseball world these days, he's apparently going to be pitching in New York next season, and Brian Bahr of Getty Images photographs him as he sleeps.
The guy needs a vacation. Or maybe even a permanent secession.
Lost in all this World Series hullabaloo and the discussions about who did what right or wrong is the very serious issue of a Guitar Hero commercial where some people we know get in their underwear and dance around like the freewheelin' Tom Cruise circa 1983. If you haven't seen it yet, here it is:
Tonight's Dugout may be stopped in the middle and continued two days from now, but read what you can after the jump.
Warning: The following video and Dugout contain adult language (mostly censored), so read/watch at your own risk.
Sometimes we're contractually obligated to cover a story. bud_is_wiser sends me an IM saying "okay I set it all up for you, just copy and paste it into Blogsmith."
Being a normal human being who hates the Yankees and the Red Sox I really don't care what happens to their fans, but when I click a YouTube video and see the combined will of Carl and Harriet Winslow grabbing a lady by her hair at Yankee Stadium I go "oh, ha" and here we are. The original plot of tonight's Dugout involved Ted Jones, but srsly lol who cares about todd jones.
Grady Sizemore, this is your year. You have hit 30 home runs and stolen 30 bases in a single season, joining an exclusive club that boasts Hall of Fame five-tool legends such as Dante Bichette and Raul Mondesi. You have achieved a statistical milestone celebrated not in the spirit of objective productivity, but of numerical romance. Oh, baseball, what frivolity can't you worship?
The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Playoffs are SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Players are having disputes with announcers, trades are being made, statistics are being used to support and argue and build and destroy. Futures are being planned. Hair is either being cut or not being cut, we aren't quite sure. Is there going to be a happy ending?
Today's Dugout, one man's point of view, is after the jump.
We at The Dugout are not finished kvetching over the Yankees' abandonment of their old stadium. Sure, building a new stadium makes long-term financial sense, but I'm not sure why that should stop me from whining. I am going to stand on a milk carton and shriek, "THE YANKEES ONLY CARE ABOUT MONEY" over and over for the rest of my days until I die friendless and alone.
I want to see Peter Gammons interview Chris Brown. 
Hi, everybody! I've been sleeping all day and just woke up moments ago. What's been happening in the world of sports? Heh, did the Orioles bolster their bullpen? Let me jump over and find out what's going o-
In what amounts to pretty much the only interesting sports story of the day, Joe Torre has taken it upon himself to write a tell-all book dismissing his former ballclub like so much prostate cancer. 
It's not easy being CC Sabathia. He's the most scrutinized object in the baseball world these days, he's apparently going to be pitching in New York next season, and Brian Bahr of Getty Images photographs him as he sleeps.
Grady Sizemore, this is your year. You have hit 30 home runs and stolen 30 bases in a single season, joining an exclusive club that boasts Hall of Fame five-tool legends such as Dante Bichette and Raul Mondesi. You have achieved a statistical milestone celebrated not in the spirit of objective productivity, but of numerical romance. Oh, baseball, what frivolity can't you worship?
