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 …
Category: Pants
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Uni Fine Leaves Pedro Facing Financial Ruin
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile, let’s turn our attention back to Pedro Martinez, who’s in the midst of quite a uni-centric period. First he’s ordered to …
Long May It Wave Stick
If Congress really wants to protect the American flag, they should stop promoting bogus Constitutional amendments that circumvent the Bill of Rights and instead turn their attention to Major League …
If It Quacks Like a Duck…
Hockey season just ended, but the NHL is still in the news, because the Anaheim Ducks (no longer “Mighty,” because they’re no longer owned by Disney) unveiled their new uniforms …
Is That a Hot Dog in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Glad to See Uni Watch?
New Uni Watch column on ESPN.com today, and it’s all about baseball pants pockets. While researching the article, I queried the membership of the Society for American Baseball Research to …
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 …
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 …
You Say Alfonzo, Equipment Manager Says Alfonso
Put yourself in Eliezer Alfonzo’s place: You toil for more than 10 years in the minor leagues. When you finally get called up to the bigs, a thunderstorm makes it …
M*A*S*H Patient or Millard North Walk-On?
High school football season is several months away, but I can’t wait that long to tell you about Millard North, a Nebraska school whose players wrap athletic tape around their …
Royals Pitcher Can’t Take Any More, Sends Out Desperate Uni-Borne Distress Signal
Carl Keenan posted a comment yesterday about the American flag patches worn on MLB caps for Memorial Day. In case you missed it, he wrote: “During the 9th inning of …