Two guys from India who have never played organized baseball before in their lives have been signed by the Pirates. They’re cricket players who apparently can throw a 90 MPH fastball. Rinku and Dinesh are their names. They’ll be at spring training and spend some time in the minors.
Here’s an excerpt from their blog entry [...]
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Rinku and Dinesh
Friday, November 28, 2008
Mpho Ngoepe
Monday, November 3, 2008
The Pirates have signed a player from South Africa. No South African has ever played a Major League game. So, if he makes it onto the big club, Mpho Ngoepe would be the first.
A Google image search for the guy’s name reveals only one photo of him on the entire Internet.
Gutsy. Do you have Mpho [...]
God Bless America
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
At the Pirates game last night, for the first time in seven years that I remember, they did not sing God Bless America at the seventh inning stretch.
I’m glad I don’t have to sit through that cantankerous ditty anymore while the rednecks stare at me, wondering why I’m not standing with my hand over my [...]
Nyjer Morgan
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Pirates lost tonight, but Nyjer Morgan is so cool.
I realize that he’s not a good player, and that he’ll never be a good player. The Pirates fans who talk about Nyjer Morgan as if he’s a prospect are overlooking the fact that he’s twenty-seven years old and has yet to log a full year [...]
11th Inning
Sunday, May 25, 2008
I just got back from the Pirates’ game. It was a real good one. I got to see a 2-6 double play, and one of the rare proper uses of the intentional walk. With the Pirates down by one in the bottom of the 11th, tied at four and a runner on second with two [...]
Sports Analogies
Thursday, March 27, 2008
In our political rhetoric, sports analogies are the analogies of choice. She hit a home run in that debate! That ad is a slam dunk! There’s two minutes to go in the Super Bowl and you’re down by four points, but $politician_name is Eli Manning. This sort of metaphor is par for the course.
But since [...]
