After last night’s implosion, the Detroit Tigers need a big effort out of Justin Verlander tonight at the O.Co to punch their tickets to the ALCS.
Maybe he can channel some of the postseason heroics of this guy… Just not those games that Morris pitched for the Blue Jays.
Bret Saberhagen’s sweet warm-up jacket also wants everyone to enjoy the All-Star Game tonight live from Kauffman Stadium.
BECAUSE THIS TIME, IT COUNTS!
Despite the chopper mustache, beefy sideburns, extra-medium hair, affinity toward pastel clothing and the fact he was born in Brooklyn, Dennis Leonard wasn’t known to be a hipster.
Also, despite being a three-time 20-game winner for the Royals when they were actually relevant, Leonard never made an All-Star team.
Chances are he probably turned that internal rage into a mean slam poetry performance piece. Or wrote a self-produced novella about it.
Despite being one of the top pitchers of the 1980s, John Tudor never made an All-Star team. Not once.
He still currently throws one of the best slurves in “RBI Baseball.”
On Saturday night, I wore this exact Astros’ cap to a party. Literally, no one knew that it was a Houston Astros’ hat.
That just belies my point that the Astros are one of the most irrelevant franchises in professional sports.
When they move to the AL next year, it should be mandatory the ‘Stros go back to this uniform and logo.
Then maybe they’ll rekindle the near glory of 1986 (a better season than their World Series one), when Scott a snarling strike-out machine on the bump.
213 career wins, 154 saves, over 3,000 Ks, a Cy Young award and a World Series ring, Smoltzy is a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
No discussion necessary.
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Seriously, who the eff is “Dave” Cone?
One career the hilariously inept New York Met training staff failed to ruin.
Hurler of a perfect game and speaker of salient observations on YES telecasts, a rare accomplishment when you’re forced to share a booth with Michael Kay.
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