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WHEN I’M WATCHING THE TRIBE GAME AND THE PITCHER HAS GIVEN UP EIGHT RUNS IN LESS THAN THREE INNINGS

motherjones:

kickstarter:

Once upon a time, a woman named Bethany Heck launched a Kickstarter to create an old-school style baseball scorebook. “The book is designed for beginners,” she wrote. “With lots of spaces to take notes on what you ate, who sang the national anthem, where you sat and what the weather was like…The goal is to make scorekeeping fun again.” Her project was a success, and quickly became an all-time staff favorite — we still remember fondly the day our books arrived. We spent all afternoon passing them around the office, crowing over the thoughtful details, the lovely design, and fantasizing about all the hot days (and hot dogs) ahead of us at the ball park. But Bethany wasn’t finished! Since then, she’s wowed us with The Eephus League of Baseball Minutiae, a site for fans to share everything from player nicknames to baseball cards and photographs, and now, the debut of The Eephus League Magazine:
Through this publication I hope to delve deeper into the nooks and crannies of our game, and preserve these small pieces of triviality lovingly and permanently. It is as much a tribute to the game itself as to its enormous and diverse group of fans. Much of the content inside was generated by passionate and talented fans, expressing their love of the game in infinitely unique and personal ways. Baseball touches each of us in different ways, and in turn the manners in which we express our connection are incomparable.
With its impeccable design and spirited content, we predict many a future baseball fan to come. Be sure to check it out!
This looks really neat.

It is really neat.

kickstarter:

Once upon a time, a woman named Bethany Heck launched a Kickstarter to create an old-school style baseball scorebook. “The book is designed for beginners,” she wrote. “With lots of spaces to take notes on what you ate, who sang the national anthem, where you sat and what the weather was like…The goal is to make scorekeeping fun again.” Her project was a success, and quickly became an all-time staff favorite — we still remember fondly the day our books arrived. We spent all afternoon passing them around the office, crowing over the thoughtful details, the lovely design, and fantasizing about all the hot days (and hot dogs) ahead of us at the ball park. But Bethany wasn’t finished! Since then, she’s wowed us with The Eephus League of Baseball Minutiae, a site for fans to share everything from player nicknames to baseball cards and photographs, and now, the debut of The Eephus League Magazine:

Through this publication I hope to delve deeper into the nooks and crannies of our game, and preserve these small pieces of triviality lovingly and permanently. It is as much a tribute to the game itself as to its enormous and diverse group of fans. Much of the content inside was generated by passionate and talented fans, expressing their love of the game in infinitely unique and personal ways. Baseball touches each of us in different ways, and in turn the manners in which we express our connection are incomparable.
With its impeccable design and spirited content, we predict many a future baseball fan to come. Be sure to check it out!

This looks really neat.

It is really neat.

clevelandindians:

Check out photo highlights and exclusive behind the scenes content from starter Brandon McCarthy’s photo shoot for Athletics magazine’s May/June issue at oaklandathletics.com/magazine.

Why is the Cleveland Indians Tumblr posting about an Oakland Athletics player?

(Cover art by @OKPants)

“I love Chief Wahoo,” Diane McMaster-Murphy exclaims, smacking a Peep off the post where a protester had placed it. “I’m an American,” adds the 57-year old white lady from Akron, adding a twist of patriotism to an otherwise indiscernible molecule of logic.

Six and a half decades after its creation, the Chief remains the only professional sports logo in the Western world that caricaturizes a race of people. But in the land of Wahoo, no reason is still reason enough.

The Curse of Chief Wahoo | News Features | Cleveland Scene

2012 MLB Predictions

Hitting rankings
1. New York Yankees
2. Boston Red Sox
3. Texas Rangers
4. Milwaukee Brewers
5. Detroit Tigers
6. St. Louis Cardinals
7. Cincinnati Reds
8. Colorado Rockies
9. Toronto Blue Jays
10. Arizona Diamondbacks
11. Tampa Bay Rays
12. Baltimore Orioles
13. Los Angeles Angels
14. Philadelphia Phillies
15. Miami Marlins
16. San Diego Padres
17. Cleveland Indians
18. Los Angeles Dodgers
19. Oakland Athletics
20. Kansas City Royals
21. Atlanta Braves
22. San Francisco Giants
23. Houston Astros
24. Minnesota Twins
25. Chicago Cubs
26. New York Mets
27. Washington Nationals
28. Chicago White Sox
29. Pittsburgh Pirates
30. Seattle Mariners

Pitching rankings
1. Philadelphia Phillies
2. Los Angeles Angels
3. San Francisco Giants
4. Washington Nationals
5. New York Yankees
6. Boston Red Sox
7. Atlanta Braves
8. Los Angeles Dodgers
9. Arizona Diamondbacks
10. Tampa Bay Rays
11. Detroit Tigers
12. Milwaukee Brewers
13. Toronto Blue Jays
14. Texas Rangers
15. Miami Marlins
16. San Diego Padres
17. Cincinnati Reds
18. St. Louis Cardinals
19. Pittsburgh Pirates
20. Cleveland Indians
21. Seattle Mariners
22. Oakland Athletics
23. New York Mets
24. Kansas City Royals
25. Chicago White Sox
26. Chicago Cubs
27. Colorado Rockies
28. Houston Astros
29. Baltimore Orioles
30. Minnesota Twins

Standings

AL East
1. New York Yankees - 107-55
2. Boston Red Sox - 106-56
3. Toronto Blue Jays - 84-78
4. Tampa Bay Rays - 82-80
5. Baltimore Orioles - 66-96

AL Central
1. Detroit Tigers - 97-65
2. Cleveland Indians - 73-89
3. Chicago White Sox - 71-91
4. Kansas City Royals - 68-94
5. Minnesota Twins - 54-108

AL West
1. Texas Rangers - 100-62
2. Los Angeles Angels - 98-64
3. Oakland Athletics - 68-94
4. Seattle Mariners - 59-103

NL East
1. Philadelphia Phillies - 107-55
2. Atlanta Braves - 83-79
3. Washington Nationals - 82-80
4. Miami Marlins - 73-89
5. New York Mets - 57-105

NL Central
1. Milwaukee Brewers - 108-54
2. Cincinnati Reds - 93-69
3. St. Louis Cardinals - 91-71
4. Pittsburgh Pirates - 63-99
5. Chicago Cubs - 61-101
6. Houston Astros - 59-103

NL West
1. Arizona Diamondbacks - 96-66
2. San Francisco Giants - 93-69
3. Los Angeles Dodgers - 87-75
4. Colorado Rockies - 75-87
5. San Diego Padres - 69-93

Playoffs

Wild Card
(A4) Boston Red Sox over (A5) Los Angeles Angels
(N5) Cincinnati Reds over (N4) San Francisco Giants

League Division Series
(A1) New York Yankees over (A4) Boston Red Sox
(A2) Texas Rangers over (A3) Detroit Tigers
(N1) Milwaukee Brewers over (N5) Cincinnati Reds
(N2) Philadelphia Phillies over (N3) Arizona Diamondbacks

League Championship Series
(A1) New York Yankees over (A2) Texas Rangers
(N2) Philadelphia Phillies over (N1) Milwaukee Brewers

World Series
(A1) New York Yankees over (N2) Philadelphia Phillies