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Todd Jones to retire, now to focus on hating Jews, Blacks, Latinos, Muslims …

Congrats on 16 years in the majors, Todd Jones. Congrats on 319 saves, including 235, the most in Detroit Tigers’ history.
Sadly, that’s not how we’ll remember you. This is.
In 2003, while Jones played for the Colorado Rockies, a play called Take Me Out was on Broadway, one where a baseball player came out to his [...]

Would getting your hat on straight be too much to ask, Jeff?

The Rockies’ pitcher Jeff Francis hasn’t had too much trouble with hitters this postseason (well, save last night’s Boston game) but the one thing he struggles with? Leveling his freaking ball cap. Check the odd tilt right here …

Or here …

Or here …

Rockies Ticket Blunder: A Delay In Gouging Red Sox Fans

Ok, this is the second time this year where I’ve wasted part of a day trying to buy tickets online … only to be greeted by the screen of death informing me that the server is taking too long to respond to my request.
The first time around, it was TicketWeb’s fault; they didn’t realize how [...]

Time To Gouge The Red Sox Fans … And The Evils of Ticketmaster

As some of you know, Rockies’ World Series tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Mountain Time (West Coast people, that’s 9 a.m. your time … East Coast people, that’s noon your time).
As a resident of Boston (ok, Allston), I am encouraging all of you to snatch up tickets for games 3, 4, and [...]

Global Warming, you have a call on line one from Mr. Selig

Congrats to the Rockies on making their first world series. Unfortunately, the breaking ball may not be the only thing falling at the team’s first World Series game.
Anyone else realize, if the World Series goes the distance, game seven will be … November 1st?!?! The three teams left — Boston, Cleveland, and Colorado — don’t play [...]

Check me out on Awful Announcing tonight at 10 PM

Hello, TMC World. Just wanted to let you know that tonight at 10 PM, I’ll be live blogging Game 4 of the NLCS over at Awful Announcing. So go ahead and set your cell phone alarms, grab some popcorn, and join me at AA tonight (no, not THAT “AA”) for some Rocktober action as Colorado [...]

Sunday Night Podcast - NFL, MLB, BCS, and Indiana

Cast: Galen Clavio, Sean Bartel
Topics: Our weekly NFL wrap-up podcast examines the day games from Week 6 of the season. Plus, we talk about the newly-released BCS standings, the MLB playoffs, and the Kelvin Sampson situation at Indiana.

“I have no idea how we just won”

For those who didn’t see it last night, the Colorado Rockies/San Diego Padres play-in game was one of the most enjoyable nights of baseball that I’ve watched in a while. It had a bit of everything — Jake Peavy going all Tom Glavine in the first inning, the Padres hitting a grand slam to take [...]

Quick Hits

A few stories from around the sporting globe for your perusal:
* So, have you been following this spying controversy in Formula One racing? Yeah, neither have we. As far as we can tell, there’s some sort of spying controversy in Formula One. But, good god, look at this story about it — Formula One [...]

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