Tag: baseball

Tweets of the Day, We Stand In The Presence Of Greatness edition.

Of a sort.

And the Mets are actually playing above .500 ball this year. …What sorcery is this?

Tweet of the Day, You Don’t See This On The Field Every Day edition.

In fact, you’ve never seen this before at all. One for the books.

Tweet of the Day, Baseball Is Beautiful edition.

At least this was. Elly De La Cruz will never be able to get away with this again, though: there will be at least three people watching his every move for the rest of his professional career. And that includes the times when he’s not playing. You can’t be too careful.

Tweet of the Day, Crowdsourcing Truth To Power edition.

This amuses.

Via @HeartbreakRidge. Also, yes, they should cut way back on the blackouts. And a bunch of other stuff, but the dude only said he’d yell one thing and it’s impolite to presume on a promise.

Quote of the Day, I Don’t Think Jackie Robinson Minded One Bit edition.

Nathan Wurtzel, on Mariano Rivera’s upcoming induction in the Baseball Hall of Fame (which was unanimous):

On April 15, 1997, Major League Baseball retired the uniform number 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson but allowed contemporary players wearing it to finish their careers without changing numbers. After 2003, Rivera was the lone player wearing 42 during his final 10 seasons, always understanding the responsibility he took on by volunteering to be the last man to wear the number. At the end of his career, he joined Robinson’s widow Rachel and daughter Sharon to unveil a plaque honoring Robinson at Yankee Stadium.

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