Quote of the day
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, and unnecessary roughness. Baseball has the sacrifice.
~George Carlin

Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, and unnecessary roughness. Baseball has the sacrifice.
~George Carlin
I hope that everyone is enjoying a warm and cozy holiday season. I wish you all the very best as we head into the final days of 2022 and look forward to an exciting new year!
I stumbled upon this video this morning, and I found myself caught between laughing out loud and shaking my head in astonishment. This video from FivePoints Vids features Little League ball fields, high school fields, minor league fields, and even a rec center field and a couple of softball fields. As you’ll discover, these ballparks are truly atrocious. The multipurpose fields are, in my opinion, the worst of the worst, but even some of the baseball-only fields are pretty horrendous. The narrator of the video makes some pretty hysterical comparisons as he describes each failure of a ball field, so if you can spare a few minutes, it’s worth the watch.
The great thing about baseball is when you’re done, you’ll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I’ll tell them I had amnesia.
~Sparky Anderson
Gotta beware of those ushers.
I wish I had thought to try this when I was playing.
Perhaps Schroeder should consider playing a different position. Catching can be murder on the fingers.
Here’s an amusing Top 10 video posted by WatchMojo a few days ago. To be fair to the players featured, we all make stupid mistakes sometimes, and these individuals were just unfortunate enough to have them featured in front of a huge audience — and now replayed for anyone who missed them the first time around. Nevertheless, some (if not all) of the incidents highlighted here will leave with a nostalgic smile on your lips while you scratch your head.
Ironically, this video about mistakes also includes a mistake of its own. The 1998 ALCS was played between the Yankees and the Indians, not the Yankees and the Braves.
If you happen to have an Amazon device that has the AI app Alexa on it, then you know that you can ask Alexa all kinds of questions, from the latest news and the weather forecast to random facts and even corny jokes. It turns out, Alexa also features a collection of baseball jokes. Just say, “Alexa, tell me a baseball joke.” Many are quite cheesy, as expected, but Alexa also manages to throw some zingers, too.
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Question: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: He got traded from the Yankees to the Mets.
Q: What do you call a baseball player who chews sunflower seeds?
A: The designated spitter.
Q: What do baseball fans in Washington DC do for fun?
A: They go to Baltimore Orioles games.
Q: What do baseball players say when they hit the showers?
A: Lather up!
A recent study claims watching sports can improve your health. Unless you are a fan of the Houston Astros.
Q: What’s the best way to hold a bat?
A: By its wings. But you really shouldn’t hold a bat.
Q: Which baseball player has the shortest commute?
A: The catcher. He only works from home.
Q: What do you call a haunted baseball park?
A: Field of Screams.
Q: Why did the baseball player put a poster of The Simpsons on his front door?
A: Because he wanted to knock a Homer.
Q: What did the softball say to the baseball?
A: Do you even lift, bruh?