Archive for April, 2011

Placido Polanco set a new career high in hits (not to mention a Phillies record for April) and RBI for a month. The former was accomplished by his sixth inning single and the latter was achieved with his game winning SAC fly scoring Wilson Valdez making the score 2-1.

Play resumed several seconds later when the unidentified object turned out to be the baseball that had just moments before been in Mike Pelfrey’s hand.

The Mets were bad. Worley was good. The recently struggling offense you ask? Well, I am glad to see that you are still interested. They managed ten hits and ten runs and generally pounded the living shit of Mets pitching.

Harry the K: The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas by Randy Miller Running Press Sure, it would have been way more timely to run this back on the anniversary of Harry’s death.  Just like it would have made way more sense to review Chris Coste’s book when he was miraculously newsworthy again a few weeks back for being hired by CSN.  But we don’t do things that way here at TBOH; which is to say, “we don’t do things correctly.”  I didn’t think of it, okay?  So you’re just going to have to open your mind and read about a [...]

Try to hide that look of dread as you go about your work day, chewing your finger nails off and sneaking quick hits from you desk flask.

Thank God the Wilpons only stole billions of dollars from innocent people and charities, as opposed to being in the midst of a divorce.

Great news for anyone who wants to be totally miserable:  Carlos Ruiz is not yet but possibly going to be on the disabled list.  When prompted to lie and make everyone feel better, Chooch’s naturally immaculate soul did not permit him to do so.

The foam’s roll in all of this is to be soybean-based and provide insulation or something to Ryan’s house. I don’t know. I don’t really “get” how houses work.

Ryan Howard ended the scoring in the top of the ninth with a solo home run to deep center off of D-Backs closer J.J. Putz. Imagine going through life with the last name Putz AND playing for the Mets. Yikes. After Ryan Madson walked a tightrope in the ninth the final score was 8-4.

You can’t have patellar tendinitis, chondromalacia and bone inflammation and be good at baseball at the same time. If you could, Chase would be doing it.