New ESPN column today. Here‘s the link. Meanwhile: Minor league baseball and hockey teams revise their unis all the time, and for the most part nobody cares. But I received …
Category: Umps/Refs
¡Cuba Si, Crappy Foam Cap No!
While the rest of us fixate on the baseball diamond and the NFL practice field, James Huening has come up with the best uni-related observation of the year so far: …
Let’s Make a Deal
When a player gets traded to from a weak team to a strong one, you often hear commentators saying he’s gone “from the outhouse to the penthouse,” or words to …
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 …
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 …
An American Designing the Attire for Wimbledon? You Can NOT Be Serious!
With the French Open finished and Wimbledon now just a few weeks away, the big news is that the tourney’s ballboys and ballgirls — who’ve previously worn green with unfortunate …
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 …