Sometimes the world just feels a little bit ”¦ off. You can’t put your finger on what it is, but you know something is wrong. It’s not something big — …
Category: Patches
Or as Chad Johnson Would Put It, León Negro
Aside from conference logos and the like, it’s not often that you see two players on different teams wearing the same jersey patch. But that’s the case with Kansas State’s …
Future Shock Schlock Smock
Remember back in July when I wrote about the “futuristic” Royals/Mariners game from 1998, which led to all the similarly themed games in 1999? I’m happy to announce that one …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
I didn’t intend to use the same headline for the third consecutive Monday, but it’s not often that a simple mid-season NFL gameday offers as many uni-related observations as yesterday …
Flag Day
First and foremost: The site is finally back in business. Full archives, full comment functionality, full everything. For further details, look here. Many thanks for your patience during the hassles …
No Friggin’ Lenience
My NFL season-preview column is now up on ESPN — here’s the link. Meanwhile, let’s talk about the new NFL logo. By now you’ve all seen the new version, which …
Be Careful What You Wish For
Scott Turner and I took an upstate road trip last Thursday, capped off by a double-A ballgame between the Binghamton Mets and the New Britain Rock Cats. And therein lies …
Iowa: the Hawkeye Museum State
Ten years ago, in the middle of a month-long cross-country road trip, I stopped in Shelby, Montana, where I checked out the Marias Museum — a tiny facility devoted to …
Uni Watch Exclusive!: C Section
Listen up, boys and girls, for today I bring you a bona fide scoop. It begins with a note I recieved yesterday from a source who checked in with the …
Those Fenway Sew-and-Sews
Last week I posted a Ticker item about how Red Sox jerseys sometimes have an upside-down 8 (the larger opening should be on the bottom). That prompted the following note …
Throwing Back, Throwing Up, Whatever
I’d planned to use today’s entry to write about my visit yesterday to Lelands auction house. But now I’ve decided to save that for later in the week, because I …
Preseason Ponderings
Now that the first slate of NFL preseason games has been played, a few new developments have come to light (aside from those green dots on QBs’ helmets, which we’ve …
Your Noggin Has an Odd Geometric Shape, Like an Object Used to Demarcate the Boundaries for a Flag Football Sporting Contest
By Vince Grzegorek There’s a lot of down time in baseball, whether you’re in the dugout or the bullpen, and ballplayers inevitably find ways to amuse themselves. While this often …
Pain in the Button
You’ve heard of a player’s uniform prompting a warning letter, and then there are the uniforms that lead to fines. But Marlins pitcher Scott Olsen has taken uni-related insubordination to …
55 Sullivan Place
HBO’s Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts Of Flatbush debuted last Wednesday, but I was in St. Louis at the time and didn’t get around to seeing it until Saturday. Aside from …