Not only is Tim Lincecum an outstanding, two-time Cy Young Award-winning hurler for the San Francisco Giants, but he was also pretty good on 3rd Rock from the Sun* in his youth.
(*I had to keep reminding myself not to type 30 Rock from the Sun.)
I like the Mets’ signing of Jason Bay. I really do. I know they need a starting pitcher, because Oliver Perez has a long way to go to prove he’s anything more than a cash suck and Jonathan Niese is…
In a move stunning and disgusting for its timing and method, the Mets fired Willie Randolph after their 9-6 victory over the Angels on Monday night. Pitching coach Rick Peterson and first-base coach/catching instructor Tom Nieto were also axed. On…
I don’t know that my mom is superstitious per se, but she’ll make a comment or joke about maintaining her routine during a baseball or football game if the Mets or Notre Dame have been playing well. “I don’t want…
Springtime R.E.M. was the first music we heard coming from the field, but we were still on the concourse. We’d just come up the escalator through the Jackie Robinson Rotunda and we were ready to work our way around Citi…
I never got to see Phil Niekro pitch during his career, even though he pitched for five-plus seasons after I went to my first baseball game. But in 2017, I got to watch him throw batting practice to fellow Hall…
Sports Illustrated‘s review of the decade included the best of the magazine’s Sign of the Apocalypse and They Said It features from the front of the book, and my favorite subset of that segment was a breakout box they did…