You Have Got To Be Kidding

So...Ken Burns' "documentary" about "baseball" in the 2000's doesn't mention Albert Pujols. I think this proves that Burns is the most ignorant MFer on the planet.

Bing Crosby: Historian

This is simply awesome: In Bing Crosby’s Wine Cellar, Vintage Baseball

How a near pristine black-and-white reel of the entire television broadcast of the deciding game of the 1960 World Series — long believed to be lost forever — came to rest in the dry and cool wine cellar of Bing Crosby’s home near San Francisco is not a mystery to those who knew him.

Crosby loved baseball, but as a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates he was too nervous to watch the Series against the Yankees, so he and his wife went to Paris, where they listened by radio.

“He said, ‘I can’t stay in the country,’ ” his widow, Kathryn Crosby, said. “ ‘I’ll jinx everybody.’ ”

He knew he would want to watch the game later — if his Pirates won — so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor. The five-reel set, found in December in Crosby’s home, is the only known complete copy of the game, in which Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit a game-ending home run to beat the Yankees, 10-9. It is considered one of the greatest games ever played.

And now all of us who were not alive at the time will be able to see it. That it recounts a crippling Yankee's loss just makes it sweeter.

Thank you Bing.

Just Imagine

Albert has just hit his league leading 40th and 41st home runs of the year.

Just imagine what he could do if he didn't have a bum ankle.

Scary.

I Just Might Lose My MLS Fandom

From Steve Goff:

Club president Kevin Payne says that the process of identifying a location for a new stadium continues in Washington, Northern Virginia and Baltimore. The Maryland Stadium Authority's feasibility study, the first of many steps if a Charm City project goes forward, is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks.

The day DC United moves to Baltimore is the day I cease to be a fan.

Good luck to them, but Baltimore doesn't mean shit to me. I didn't live in Baltimore for eight years, I lived in DC. I didn't have season tickets to a team playing in Baltimore, I had tickets to a team playing in DC. I'm not rooting for the fucking uniforms, I'm (mostly) rooting for a team tied to a specific place.

This sucks.