In case you didn’t know — and let’s face it, you probably didn’t — the International Softball Federation‘s 11th annual Women’s World Championship tournament is currently taking place in Beijing. …
Category: Memorials
Mug Shot
Two significant Uni Watch developments today, starting with the annual college football roundup over on ESPN — here’s the link. Thanks to everyone who let me know about this year’s …
Uni Watch Road Show
Heads up, Midwesterners: I’ll be in Milwaukee on August 24th and will be pretty free from about 5pm on. I know there are at least a few Uni Watch readers …
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 …
NL Finds New Way to Lose All-Star Game
From a uniform perspective, the best All-Star Game moment was probably in 1985, when Lou Whitaker’s jersey got lost and he had to wear a replica jersey from one of …
From a Sleeve to a Slip (or: Nike Must Die, Part 318)
I hadn’t planned on posting anything during the holiday weekend, but here’s a bit of breaking news that just can’t wait: The ongoing scandal of Nike’s accursed dot-matrix undersleeves (which …
Drop-Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life (or hit me over the fence, as the case might be)
With the Colorado Rockies clubhouse reportedly becoming a fundamentalist revival meeting, and the whole 6/6/06 thing having just gone down, perhaps it was inevitable that reader Alex Gordon would choose …
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 …
“Kill number 72!”
Saw something in last night’s Mets/Yanks game I’d never seen before: Home plate ump Alfonso Marquez, who wears No. 72, had his uniform number on his chest protector. This is …