1.  So, Ty Wigginton just singled and stole a base.  Is there anything he can’t do?  Yes.  Please list them.

Um, hit with runners on? Yeah, he can’t do that. So when he does it, one of two things happens. One, it’s either a solo homer, or he gets on with no one on, then nobody behind him can bring him in. It’s something we pride ourselves on, actually. Worked hard on it in Spring Training.  (more…)

It’s true.  There was a time when playing two baseball games on the same day was business as usual.  There’s even been some tripleheaders along the history of baseball, which seem to, in a huge coincidence, also fall on the same day as massive waves of exhaustion-related deaths.

“In my day, we played double headers back to back,” old Grandpa used to say.  ”We also filled the air with blood curdling screams when the other team was batting and torched entire Vietnamese villages between innings.”

God, grandpa, you were so much more agreeable when you were in that iron lung, clinging to life.

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