Last night Chalk stopped by The Baseball Show by Diamond Hoggers to talk for a bit. We ended up getting off the beaten path. When I say we got off the beaten path, we talk about Ivan Calderon hitting for the video game home run cycle; as well as a variety of other topics.
If you’re bored at work today, give it a whirl. Good and wholesome baseball talk.
Every Friday, 7IS Contributor Ryan Henning will take a look at what’s happening in the life of a former, possibly forgotten player. You may not think it’s important, but it must be important to someone.
I think everyone remembers Eric Karros from his playing days at first base for the Dodgers. Either that or we remember him from being the charming sidekick for Kevin Harlan whenever Fox decided to feature a non-New York team on it’s telecast. We mostly remember that because his hair looked like a tin roof in a hurricane, trying to pull itself away from the shack it covered.
If you lived outside of Los Angeles during his career, you probably thought Karros was good, but not spectacular. Why? Because he didn’t make any all star games, which are obviously the benchmark for stardom in Major League Baseball, and why Andrew Bailey is a bigger name than Karros. He won the silver slugger once and is the LA Dodgers all time leader in home runs, despite you, Allen in Cincinnati, not thinking much of his career.
Now, Karros works for the Dodgers pregame show, which could very well last into the third inning without anyone noticing, and is host of a radio show in with Jeromy Burnitz, a person he has no logical tie to, in San Diego, a city he has no logical tie to. It’s an allegory to his hair and his head, apparently. Karros managed to graduate from UCLA with a degree in economics, proving that he is overqualified to work for Fox Sports, especially when you look at their Football analysts:
Every Thursday, 7IS Contributor Ryan Henning will take a look at a rumor burning up the hot stove. You may not think it’s important, but it must be important to someone.
Today the Hot Stahoviak brings you the breaking news that Cuban defector Leslie Anderson has signed with Chalk’s beloved Rays. He is an outfielder, played on the Cuban national team and has a girls name. These are the three facts I know off hand about him. Even the news that he signed to an MLB contract was reported on Twitter. We can make a lot of inferences about this, and I say we do so. Wild speculation is the lifeblood of blogs.
- Defecting from Cuba is now as easy as saying “I would like to play baseball in America please”. Even guys that had no real baseball talent, like Rey Ordonez, are allowed in.
- After disasters like Yuniesky Betancourt, Major League officials are now seeking only players with easily pronounceable names.
- The increasing number of Cuban defectors may be due to the government’s insistence they wear red stretch pants as part of the uniform.
On June 17, 2009, three nefarious Canadians committed the foulest of crimes in Cincinnati’s home of the Reds: The Great American Ballpark. Their crime? Buying Beer… as Canadians! This is part three of their story.
Canadian Gerald, pictured above (he’s the one wearing shorts, some sort of Reds merchandise, and holding an illegal beer), is a baseball encyclopedia. Ask him who played center field for the Texas Rangers in 1985. While most people would answer, “who cares?”, Gerald will tell you it was Oddibe McDowell, who was also the first Ranger to hit for the cycle… and he also sported a slick pencil ’stache.
Gerald was the second of the Canadian Three that 7th Inning Stache was able to contact and interview for his side of the story regarding the international incident that was created when he and his friends had the audacity to buy beer, as Canadians, in Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark.
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This is day 36 of the “7th Inning Stache”s 100 days of MLB mustaches. All of the Staches will be cataloged in our MLB Mustache Hall Of Fame. If you have any tips on some fielding first basemen follicle follies please email us the tip @ NESWblogs-at-gmail.com.
If you’re a Reds fan you remember 2007 when the organization rolled out an old-fashioned, Rollie Fingers-esque version of Mr. Red. He’s kind of cool looking isn’t he? The next year they’d add “Rosie Red” which was a mistake altogether.
The Reds have more mascots then any team in baseball it seems. Before any given game, you’ll see a field full of them. They’re un-organized, and they’re all over the place. There’s no rhyme or reason to their routine (Mr. Redlegs also is prone to wipe-outs) Due to this fact it’s a matter of time before one of them is done away with, so I can tell you right now that Redlegs or Rosie’s days are numbered because Mr. Red and Gapper are here to stay.
Plus, look into Redlegs’ eyes. They’re glassy. They’re gazing far off into the distance. He looks like he’s up to something mysterious but lacking substance in the tact department. You simply cannot trust this son of a bitch. Just get a load of him.
He’s annoying. Arrive to watch batting practice and he’ll do his best to distract you just as your favorite player walks in for his round of swings. I’d like nothing more then to work on Redlegs with a ballpeen hammer for the better part of a day. All this said, you can’t argue with the fact that the guy has a HOF ’stache.
Mr. Redleg’s ’stache = Neoprene in nature
Seductive Scribe Eric Doerr already put his heart on the line with regards to Youk’s Motorhead-style stache, but what if The Greek God of Illegitimate Children Walks were to model a working man’s mustache?
You know, sculpt a Nine-to-Five Steak-and-Potatoes mustache; a foundation mustache onto which all other mustaches are erected. Well, thanks to 7th Inning Stache’s famous MOOPS (Mustache Oy! Oy! Projection System), we no longer have to simply imagine what Youkilis would look like if he entered a lumberjack contest — exclusive pic after the jump.
(E-I-C UPDATE: If you like what you see, you can make a Youkilis mustache a reality as 7IS has learned via Masshole Sports that Youk is taking votes on his facial hair in exchange for $1 donations to his charity Hits for Kids. Please help “mustache” or “Fu Manchu” beat “clean-shaven” or “goatee.” Go here to donate/vote under Facial Hair Reality.)
