I meant to post this back in April and just stumbled across this link. A group called Improv Anywhere decided to turn a little league game into a major league game. Brilliance results. They even got the Goodyear Blimp to turn up. Fantastic. They have done a number of interesting ‘missions’ so poke around their [...]

With great pain I acknowledge the Yankees are no longer in the basement of the American League East, the Baltimore Orioles have taken their place. It was nice while it lasted.

I love minor league baseball, the games are fun and the promotions are brilliant. Case in point, the Larry Craig Bobble Foot being given away by the St. Paul Saints. On their site it says they are celebrating National Tap Dancing Day with the bobblefoot as well.
Oh, and the Yanks are still in last [...]

I missed this incident during the weekend series with the Pirates, sounds serious. We can only hope this convinces them to more careful in the future.

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Nationals Park, originally uploaded by gleefulgecko.

OK, I did the Orioles the other day now it was the Nationals turn for a great baseball game. The game was great, tied 1-1 into the 12th when the [...]

Carol sent me a link to the The Miskatonic Valley Junior Baseball Association the other day and I thought I should share it with you all. Due to unfortunate circumstances the league is down to two teams this year, the The Innsmouth Guppies VS the Dunwich Whippoorwills. I am a bit broke right now or [...]

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Orioles Park at Camden Yards, originally uploaded by gleefulgecko.

We had the worst trip to and from the stadium last night that you can imagine. The bus had raised their prices and were running less buses [...]

The Orioles made some offseason noise this week by trading Miguel Tejada to the Houston Astros then having seventeen players show up in the Mitchell Report on steroids use. They were Brian Roberts, Miguel Tejada, Jay Gibbons, Rafael Palmeiro, Larry Bigbie, David Segui, Jack Cust, Jason Grimsley, Jerry Hairston, Tim Laker, Gregg Zaun, Manny Alexander, [...]

A great post that has been honored in the 2007 Best American Sportswriting Annual details one of the tragedies of Major League Baseball’s sad historic ban on Non-Human players: Bugs Bunny, greatest banned player ever.
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DRM victories march on after Google sunk it its movie customers in August and at the same time warned us all of the joys of Digital Rights Management the fine folks at Major League Baseball decided they want to get into the act so they just turned off the servers that let you watch the [...]