There were four entrants to the David Price facial hair contest. And, therefore, four winners.
Honorable Mention, sent in by Steve Madden:
Third place, sent in by Matt Saunders:
Second place, sent in by Kyle Davis:
First place, sent in by Cody Griffin
Congratulations, Cody!
To think about a piece of music critically is to wonder about where it came from, to an extent. Not only how does it make you feel, but how did the artist feel when making their art? In other words, why? Why did they do this thing. And to consider the why leads eventually to the should — should this person have made this music? If your answers to these two questions are interesting and affirmative, respectively, you probably have yourself a song worth listening to. You could really say the same of most types of art, and eventually you might consider the criticism itself with those same questions.
I have no idea why Trevor Bauer made this music as part of the duo consummate4sight, and I don’t think he should have. And yet, only bad things will come of my critique of his art, and so therefore I’ve joined this conundrum that he created. Or maybe it’s my fault.
Rickey Henderson is the fucking greatest for many reasons. The following anecdote is further proof of said.
from Long Shot by Mike Piazza
“There are true baseball fans in Texas, but it’s not a true baseball town” – Josh Hamilton
If Mr. Hamilton desires a true baseball town, may I suggest one of the following:
Bag, Hungary
Balk, Netherlands
In Richmond, Virginia, high school student Jackie Bradley, Jr. is a baseball-whiz living with his uncle and aunt. He is bitten by a flying squirrel (which had previously been bitten by a radioactive spider) while attending a minor league game and acquires the agility and proportionate strength of an arachnid and a rodent. Along with super strength, he gains the ability to adhere to walls and ceilings, and to crack even the hardest nuts with his incisors. He also becomes very cute. Through his knack for sport, he develops a beautiful swing that lets him rope doubles to all fields with the flick of his quick, strong wrists.
Initially seeking to capitalize on his new abilities, he dons the uniform of a Royal for some reason, and, as “Jackie-Bradley-Man”, becomes a high school baseball star. However, he blithely ignores the chance to swing at a hanging curveball, and his indifference ironically catches up with him when the same curveball lands, roughly one millisecond later, in the catcher’s glove for a called strike three, ending an insignificant college game in a loss for his team, but also, somehow, leading to the death of his uncle. Ever since, Jackie-Bradley-Man has tracked and subdued curveballs, learning that “With great athleticism there must also come great pitch recognition!”
Thanks to Deadspin yesterday, we discovered perhaps the greatest headline ever devised by manbrains and ladyfingers, as the Philadelphia Daily News’s David Murphy tried to entice you to click with the following:
Note how David spruces up a post explaining why the Phillies are never going to trade for Giancarlo Stanton with the name of the local nine, plus both iterations of Stanton’s name, plus boobs and Donovan McNabb, simultaneously attracting Philadelphians who are angry and horny. That’s just good headlineing. But I think we can do better. I think we have to do better, especially if we are going to compete for scarce online resources. So please, help us to help you decide what to click on so that we can better serve you, and “earn” more money. Answer the following poll question and/or suggest alternative headlines you would click on in the comments, on which I’ve been told all the finest discourse on the Internet takes place.
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Los Angeles Angels 1B prospect C.J. Cron is a good human being. All the scouts will tell you: What Cron doesn’t understand, he does not judge; but he does not fear the unknown — or at least he does not act out of such fear.
His vigilance against cruelty to other living things has plus-plus potential, and he has the work ethic (something that Protestant scouts will point to as additional evidence of Cron’s good human potential) to make that projection manifest in the Big Leagues of Life. His everyday interaction with other humans, especially, are fluid, and he’s a natural at treating others with dignity. He’s very patient at the plate, and in almost every other situation.
He rarely curses out of frustration or anger, but drops f-bombs liberally when camaraderie is at stake.
Worst day of spring training, physicals #ihateneedles but the good news is, once today’s done, baseball will officially be started!#LGM
— Justin Turner (@redturn2) February 17, 2013
In other Mets news, the very excellent Metsblog has a couple of photos from the Mets team bowling night. But it doesn’t say who won– the team with David Wright, Ike Davis, and owner’s son Jeff Wilpon? Or the team with Collin McHugh, Rob Carson, and Josh Edgin? Any guesses?
In an ongoing effort to scientifically clinch the correlation between longitude and awesome, I present to you — without comment, but with hearty pleasure — the following gems mined from Tumblr, where they were tagged thusly: “japanese baseball.”
From user 1863-project:
From user thefuzzden:
