I decided to type in “Manny Acta” followed by each letter of the alphabet (“Manny Acta a,” “Manny Acta b,” etc.) to see what Google Autocomplete thinks about the recently-fired Indians skipper. Here are the results. (I’ve bolded some highlights.)
Manny Acta all star coach
Manny Acta all star game
Manny Acta all star
Manny Acta and wife
Manny Acta bio
Manny Acta bowling
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I don’t know what you just did, reader — like, wear white after Labor Day, maybe, or make a comment in defense of that inveterate plagiarist Jonah Lehrer. What’s obvious, though, from the footage embedded here is that Glen Perkins does not care for it. Not even a little, really.
GIF courtesy @BlueJayHunter via Greg Wisniewski.
Click, with a view to embiggening.
According to Wikipedia, Wikipedia is “a free, collaboratively edited, and multilingual Internet encyclopedia.”
Also according to Wikipedia, Wins Above Replacement (or, WAR) is — among other things — both “a bunch of crap” and “differnet [sic] from source to source.”
Truth is what has been spoken here, America.
Credit to He of the Terrific Cheekbones, the internet’s Matt Hunter.
You know this player: it’s Chipper Jones, the shoe-in Hall-of-Famer who’s about to play the final regular season series of his career.
It was a different time, you understand — 1992, or ’93.
You also know this couch: it was in your parents’ basement when you were growing up. It stinks of something sticky, of Doritos, of sex. Or, in spite of the sticky puffed, the Doritos crumbled, the sex had upon it, it still smells of something older, from long before you.
Reader DShep of SB Nation Rangers blog Lone Star Ball not only edited together a single video of all 221 of Yu Darvish’s strikeouts this season, he also set said montage to the hottest jams of the author’s childhood.
Lost in the commotion over Miguel Cabrera’s Triple Crown candidacy is the fact that another player is in contention for an equally historic accomplishment. I’m referring to the remarkable Jemile Weeks of Oakland, who — although it’s a very long shot — could theoretically still join the very short list of Triple Dunce Cap winners. To win the Triple Dunce Cap, of course, one must finish last in one’s league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in. This feat, and Mr. Weeks’ run at it, has not gone entirely unnoticed, although it’s been treated somewhat more prosaically elsewhere. In any case, nowhere to my knowledge has the proud history of the Triple Dunce Cap been properly historiographed. I’ll just come right out and say it: it’s my intention to do so right now.
Three weeks ago, the New York Times ran an incredibly important article about Keith Hernandez’s mustache that, of course, we here at NotGraphs had to cover.
This past weekend, the crucial follow-up story.
Keith Hernandez shaved his mustache.
He might grow it back.
The Earth is still spinning on its axis.
Here is a video of the Phantom Grand Slam, and here is the Phantom Grand Slam enGIF’d:
If this is the first you are seeing of this grand salami, then I envy you. If that is not enough to sate you intellectual desires, watch the full clip (above linked) and that should both explain this oddity and remove a thin sheening of fun and mystery from the GIF.
After the jump, enjoy a fast-motion, more accurate rendering of the Phantom Grand Slam:
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