MLB.com shares some ballplayers’ favorite holiday music. These are selections *not* from the article:
All I Want For Christmas Is A Two Year Deal — Ichiro
Angels We Have Heard on High — Josh Hamilton
Blue Christmas — Hanley Ramirez
Go Tell It On The Mountain — R.A. Dickey
It has come to this author’s attention – via the above tweet and article by ESPN personality/banal number-producer Darren Rovell – that the Blue Moon beverage company has come up with a new beer/wine hybrid. Apparently, the taste for this “drink” was perfected at Coors Field in Denver, CO. Knowing this, the NotGraphs Investigative Reporting Investigation Team searched for, and discovered, other tastes perfected at Coors Field:
Before you see this, the newest animation from the Next Media team that gave us such classics as Raging Panda Pablo Sandoval and Derek Jeter Mauled by Tiger, a word of warning: Sex. As in, this video is full of sexy time. You’ll see inappropriate outfits, inappropriate touching of equipment, and just a strange story of courtship and copulation involving Billy Beane, Hiroyuki Nakajima, and Brad Pitt.
Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you.
I am not Carson Cistulli, but this is a tweet by John Lott that is in-no-way altered from the original:
Here is what that would look like, maybe, should Dickey have pitched his guts for the Mets:
I go to Twitter looking for Nick Swisher news… and it appears that the word Swisher is slang for something else. I do not know quite what. I feel like I don’t even know English anymore after reading these tweets.
Hell of loud in my swisher.
— February 2nd.(@Black_Dougiee) December 19, 2012
Twisting up this grand daddy purp into a swisher for you.. About to send some clouds your way @itsdeltron Rest easy fam!
— Michael Smann (@michaelsmann) December 19, 2012
I wanna buy a swisher for tomorrow -.-
— Gho$t. (@FittedCapDee_) December 19, 2012
I got purple in my swisher, purple in my car, purple in my wine clap, purple label up, grapes what’s upppp
— Destiny Hughes (@desstiknee) December 19, 2012
You beggen to hit my swisher, nd Yo girl liking all my pictures
— 2Liter AwwChuu (@_AwwChuuBlessMe) December 19, 2012
I have swisher aftertaste in my mouth. Eww.
— Alma (@ThatPutaAlmita) December 19, 2012
Just as we were all still processing the news of Andruw Jones turning Japanese, there came the just-as-startling announcement of another overseas move: occasional mountaineer and gentleman scholar R.A. Dickey is set to take his talents to the nation of Canada. Both Mr. Jones and Mr. Dickey alike will be facing tremendous alienation, disorientation, and miscommunication. The latter, however, possesses a distinct advantage in being a voracious reader. Here, to give him a head start on his acculturation process, I’ve pulled together a small selection of classic titles from the Canadian canon:
The following tweet is entirely and in-no-way altered from the original (click to embiggen):
The following is a transcript of an Internet-based chat between the author and his wife, prompted by the author learning something new in the latest issue of OUT magazine:
If anyone can help the author create a Match.com profile, it would be greatly appreciated.
I’m sure this question has been asked before. By all of us. Maybe on an everyday basis, even.
An e-comic strip, submitted by reader Aaron E., imagines what the application of sabermetric principles would produce if applied to comic books:
If a butterfly flaps its wings in Japan, a hurricane can happen on the coasts of Florida. If new Oakland A’s shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima flips his bat in Japan, however, Jeff Sullivan will definitely capture video of it, render it into GIF form, and then optimize it for the people.
Science, is what that is.
Footage from series of Nakajima videos posted at Mercury News.