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Dr. Meat — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:15:37 +0000

Sorry for the lack of content. I’ve been pretty busy impersonating Tony LaRussa on Twitter?

from espn.com

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing the social-networking site Twitter, claiming an unauthorized page that used his name to make light of drunken driving and two Cardinals pitchers who died damaged his reputation and caused emotional distress.
The suit filed last month in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco seeks unspecified damages.
La Russa had little to say about the suit.
“I’m not discussing it except to say that our foundation attorney is taking care of it,” the manager told The Associated Press.
Messages left Thursday with La Russa’s attorney and San Francisco-based Twitter were not returned.
The lawsuit claims that someone created a false account under La Russa’s name and posted updates, known as “tweets,” that gave the false impression that the comments came from La Russa. The suit said the comments were “derogatory and demeaning” and damaged La Russa’s trademark rights.
The account bearing La Russa’s name is no longer active. The lawsuit includes a screen shot of three tweets. One posted on April 19 said: “Lost 2 out of 3, but we made it out of Chicago without one drunk driving incident or dead pitcher.”

Baseball Bat-Shit Crazy.

Dr. Meat — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:47:42 +0000

You probably won’t think this is cool at all, but then again, you probably aren’t a fraction as awesome as I am (or this guy).
Word on the street, this “enthusiast” has more autographs in one set of baseball cards (1983 Fleer) than I have in my whole collection. I mostly keep the fact that I even collect autographed sports cards a secret from people other than my two dogs and the elderly priest I sponge-bathe every other weekend when I volunteer at the nursing home down the street. But anyway, this guy is nuts. Good luck to you, brotha.
The story.
Crazy guy’s blog.
Crazy guy’s website.
Sweet jesus, when does spring training start?!

Mad Dog

EvilJeenyus — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:03:35 +0000

Baseball’s winter meetings start in Vegas today, and with them all sorts of shit will start to go down. Billions of dollars worth of contracts will be signed. Trades will be consummated that will effect teams for years down the road. But the first order of business is the end of a career, as Greg Maddux is expected to announce his retirement. From STLtoday.com:

“The news that Maddux would retire was an above-the-fold story in Saturday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal. The righthander won four Cy Young Awards, starting with the Cubs but starring mostly with Atlanta, and he won 18 Gold Gloves, including one this past season. He’ll retire seven wins shy of passing Pud Galvin and Kid Nichols for sixth all time and 19 wins short of moving into third-place all-time by leapfrogging Pete Alexander and Christy Mathewson.”

Now, take another look at that quote for a second. When you’re in the neighborhood of Christy Mathewson (Wins) and Ozzie Smith (Gold Gloves), you’re a helluva player. And when you’re passing pitchers on MLB’s All-Time lists with names like “Pud” and “Kid” that probably pitched 500 innings a year from the time they were 15 until their arms fell off at 35, you’ve been around a while. Excellence AND longevity! Plus, look at that mustache up there! That’s Hall of Fame facial hair! There’s no question that he’s a first-ballot Hall of Famer when his time comes. It’s just fun to look back and realize that we’ve been able seen a rare talent for so long. I really hope he saved enough money to retire comfortably…