Would You Rather?
A. Throw A Perfect Game
B. Hit 4 HRs In One Game
C. Make An Unassisted Triple Play
Why?
Baseball Tumblrs
I put together one of these mammoth lists last season, and since it’s the first Follow Friday of the new baseball season… I thought it was time for another list. If there are other baseball-centric tumblrs that aren’t on here… let me know!
Agony of Defeat
Cubs Magic Number
Diamond Notes
Dodgers Baseblog
Fall Classic
Fuck Yeah Angels
Fuck Yeah Baseball
Fuck Yeah Braves
Fuck Yeah Dodgers
Fuck Yeah High Socks
Go Jays Go
Hotfoot
Hundred Next Years
Let’s Play Ball
Let’s Play Two
Metsgrrl
Mightyflynn
Moonshot
New Beast of the East
NYMetsFans
Oaktown A’s
Oaktown Proverbs
Orioles Magic
Random Sox
Rays, Baby, Rays
Red Sox In NY
Red Sox Thoughts
Restoring the Roar
Rick Ankiel’s Mustache
Rookie Mets Fan
SF Giants Bay
South Side
SoxMobster
SportCentr
Sports Page
The Centrists
Things Dustin Pedroia Has Said
Viva Cerveceros
We Believe
Win Twins
Yankees Fans Suck
Yankee Nation
This is much more useful than the Tumblr Sports Directory.
I don’t know Lynn Zinser, but she has kind of pissed me off the last couple of days.
Yesterday’s post was gross enough stating that McGwire’s “confession” was “parsed”. (Yay for unnecessary quotation marks!) Yes, many people are unsatisfied for whatever reason with McGwire’s statement and Lynn happily links to all of them. (I guess that’s the point of ‘Leading Off’?) Even the writers that “actually like him” and “wish they felt differently”.
And then there is today’s post which I thought was going to be about Lane Kiffen and the insanity that took place last night on the campus of the University of Tennessee, but Lynn decided to throw in this comparison:
The whole episode had all the surprise completely missing in the Mark McGwire semiadmission of steroid use, whose latest nonshocking development is his former teammate Jose Canseco’s announcing that McGwire is still lying about the extent of his steroid habit.
Is she saying that we should have acted more surprised with McGwire’s statement or that we should have been more outraged? Or surprised that he didn’t show us the exact points of injection and his personal log of every time he stuck a needle in his ass? Should we all have gone to his personal home and lit things on fire, rioted in the streets? Over steroids? Because that’s what she just said.
I’m still unsure of what people want from McGwire at this point. I have more understanding for people that say he should never be in the Hall of Fame. Ok. I get that. Asterisks are already going in the record books, Mark personally called the family of Roger Maris. He’s apologized to everyone who has ever watched a baseball game. The man doesn’t even want to play. He wants to coach. Meanwhile, Alex Rodriguez, the savior of New York, is still collecting a paycheck and celebrating World Series victories after his admission. Let’s look at some of Lynn’s quotes about him.
“Someday our kids may be pledging allegiance to him before school starts or he could become the face on the $100 bill.” - Nov 3, 2009
Hmm. Well she actually doesn’t say a lot about him, but she did a post titled ‘A Year of Sad Lessons’ about everything awful that happened in sports this year… surely he’ll have a few mentions in that.
It seems for every Kobe Bryant winning an emotional championship and still sinking dramatic game-winning shots to make even some regular N.B.A. season games watchable there is an Alex Rodriguez, whose championship year also included being outed for steroid use, and the whole sordid, depressing tale of McNair’s demise. - Dec. 18, 2009
So… he’s mentioned in a sentence about the NBA… and Kobe Bryant. And that’s it. Really in all the articles where she has ever mentioned “Alex Rodriguez” there isn’t really much negativity. A little bit of humor around his rise to fame, a little bit of “oh, and that steroid thing that happened”. But nothing much beyond that. Hmm, wonder why NYTimes Editor? I wonder why?
And to the people that actually like Mark McGwire but can’t seem to deal with his statements this week - I don’t buy it. I think you want someone to blame for starting the so-called steroid era and you’ve found your man. You’re going to blame him for Roger Clemens, for A-Rod, for everyone else’s name who has surfaced on the Mitchell Report when in all reality no one person is solely responsible for the way baseball has been played.
heard #giants offered mark derosa $12 mil, 2-yr deal. but is ex-brave and NJ product waiting for atlanta, #mets or #yanks?
Breathe In. Don’t Breathe Out. Just Hold It. This Isn’t Going To Be Easy.
#stlcards lineup: Lugo 2B, Ryan SS, Pujols 1B, Holliday LF, Ludwick RF, Molina C, DeRosa 3B, Rasmus CF, Wainwright P
