The spirit of Uni Watch was alive and well in Major League Baseball broadcast booths two nights ago, as several announcers turned their attention away from the play-by-play and toward …
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Dear Pedro: The Check Is in the Mail
With the Mets finally back home, it’s time to revisit our Pedro Martinez Relief Fund project. As you’ll recall, Pedro was recently fined $5000 for stretching his pant cuffs down …
Pain in the Button
Major League Baseball needs to impose some serious quality control on the uniform front, because it looks like some second-rate gear is ending up on the field. First, as we …
Inside the Belt Ways
New ESPN column today — here‘s the link. Meanwhile, for the second time in three days, our topic topic du jour is belts. This time it’s because of events that …
And They Lost Their Seeing Eye Dogs, Too
Football games take place once a week; hockey and basketball games, once every few days. Only baseball games take place every single day, which means there’s no time to find …
He Missed the Tag, He Missed the Tag!!
They say almost every baseball game features something you’ve never seen before. That was certainly true yesterday in Boston, where Red Sox starter Kyle Snyder spent the entire first inning …
Nice Day for a White Wedding Ballgame
Thanks to the rise of the term sabermetric, many people think SABR — the Society for American Baseball Research — is just a bunch of stat geeks devoted to crunching …
Plus Everyone Knows the Balls Were Juiced
A few thoughts about last night’s Home Run Derby: • Is there anyone — anyone — who thinks those side panels were a good idea? Like, what is this — …
Tuck You!!
This routine where MLB players untuck their jerseys at the conclusion of a game has gotten way out of hand. As reader Chris Velardi points out, “I was thinking how …
No, Not That Cyclone
It all started a few days ago when I got a note from reader Josh Wagner, who describes himself as “a recent Iowa State graduate who currently dabbles in a …
Big in Japan
Two Uni Watch readers recently took trips to Japan, and both of them made stops at the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame, where they took lots of photos and made …
Great Wright Hope Has a Lot to Learn
Mets third baseman David Wright keeps a blog. Now, everyone knows that you don’t want to read a player’s writing — especially a player on your favorite team — because …
And How Come Every Team Has a Fat Chick?
With the Women’s College World Series currently unfolding, Uni Watch is brimming with questions about college softball. For example: How come some of the teams wear pants and others wear …
All-Maddon Team
Not since the glory days of Harry Caray (right) has baseball had such an amusingly bespectacled character as Devil Rays skipper Joe Maddon. A nice-seeming man who’s somehow impossible to …
Do Smart-Asses Who Skip Classes to Pass Gases Make Passes at Lacrosse Lasses Wearing Glasses?
I’ve written on ESPN about players who wear glasses and goggles in the major team sports (and in the movies). But longtime reader Todd Krevanchi has discovered some seriously weird …