- So the San Francisco Giants baseball team agreed to a $4 million contract with pitcher Jeremy Affeldt back in 2010. But instead of writing $4 million on the contract, some dope with the team wrote $4.5 million. Since it was legally binding, Affeldt could’ve walked away with an extra $500K.
- He gave it back instead.
Tracks
This is not a recent photo, but it does contain two of my favorite things: Bill Murray, and sliding into home plate. (via)
On May 4th and May 5th the Toledo Mud Hens, a minor league baseball team, will:
- Serve “Yoda Soda” (assuming it does not taste like Dagobah water)
- Give away 3,000 kazoos to fans to participate in a “post-game Star Wars-themed concert.”
- Have their players wear “Chewbacca” uniforms, pictured above.
May the dorks be with them.
Baseball is back at Fenway.
Not everyone sang along — some Yankee fans appeared quite confused as to what they should do once Barry Manilow Neil Diamond started playing on the PA system — but many of them did sing “Sweet Caroline,” with glee.
Three weeks ago, I prayed that anybody but the Yankees win the World Series. Now I pray they win it for the people of New York.
Harvard Business School alumni magazine editor and die-hard Boston fan GARRY EMMONS, from a Boston Globe interview in the Sept. 19, 2001 edition; the day before, the Red Sox played the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in their first game after the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01.
The Yankees, BTW, lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a seven-game World Series; Arizona returns to the Bronx tonight for the first of a three-game series.
In our darkest times, our nation can always count on baseball to help bring us back.
Yankees fans will sing "Sweet Caroline" during the third inning of tonight's game vs. Arizona to show support for Boston.
Score the Yankees triple play against the Orioles 4-6-5-6-5-3-4.
(Photo of San Diego’s Carlos Quentin going after LA starting pitcher Zach Greinke after Greinke hit him with a pitch — the third time Greinke has done that since 2009 — by Lenny Ignelzi / AP via The New York Daily News)
- It’s a little weird to listen to the Yankees vs. Cleveland knowing Swisher is playing first for Cleveland, which is managed by Terry Francona, who used to manage Kevin Youkilis (with the Red Sox) and who is now playing for the Yankees, for whom former Indians slugger Travis Hafner also plays, and I’m dizzy.
CRAY BALL Security guards grapple with a fan who ran onto the field during a Red Sox / Blue Jays game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada on Sunday. Final score: security 1, spectator 0. (Photo: Tom Szczerboski / Getty Images via The Telegraph)
“(The filmmakers) explained to me why they wanted two young actors to play Rachel and Jack, because they wanted them to be Rachel and Jack. It’s different than when you have a well-known actor playing that part – it’s still about that actor and not about the person he’s playing necessarily. …One of the things I liked about them is that they came to see me well-prepared. They had read a lot and could even refer to what they read, and ask questions about what they read, so they would know what I thought about the notions they were gathering from reading, whether I thought they were correct or not, and if I could add to them. They were very interested in having me add interesting stories and material so that they could get a fuller understanding of our love, our relationship, our family, our partnership, and the experiences we had.”
— RACHEL ROBINSON, widow of baseball great Jackie Robinson, on the casting of relative unknowns Chadwick Boseman and Nicole Beharie to play the couple in the film 42.
The NYT’s front-page photo of Alex Rodriguez was shot on an iPhone in the Yankee’s locker room bathroom.
Professional photographer Nick Laham, seen above, said he hadn’t planned on shooting w/ his iPhone, but now Getty Images is licensing his entire Instagram series — of A-Rod, Jeter, Teixeira, Sabathia, et al — on its website.
Image of photographer and A-Rod from FStoppers.
In the bathroom.
Of course it was.
