Cheap Shots #59: I Didn’t Know He Wrote Columns.

Last minute reminder: if you still want to enter for the last spot in the Channel 4 News League, entries are due today (see sidebar at left). We’ll do a couple rounds of voting via Gmail, and hopefully have a winner on Monday.

Andy Rooney needs to have his license to think revoked. [Foul Balls]
Breaking down [...]

Nah, No Pressure.

Having an NFL Hall of Famer as your quarterbacks coach in high school would probably be just a bit intimidating. It might be more so if that Hall of Famer is also your dad, but then again, if you’re Jack Elway and living with being John Elway’s son, you’re probably used to dealing with unrealistic [...]

Scraping The Bottom of the Beer Barrel.

Didn’t take too long for David Wells to find new employment, particularly considering just how bad the condition of some pitching staffs are these days, but the reaction of the Dodger fan in the office to the news that he’s going to start for Los Angeles against the Mets on Sunday was something along the [...]

Ah Yes, Historical Re-Enacments.

Yahoo Sports has an article on Ball Four author Jim Bouton apparently reviving 1880s vintage baseball in his Vintage Base Ball Federation, which is an approximation of rules from the 1850s-1890s that make the best game to watch. Interesting article, especially because Bouton’s association has a competitor, the Vintage Base Ball Association, which plays by [...]