Let’s be real people, baseball players are the “bangin’est” athletes out there. And there’s nothing better than them except food (and beer). So why not combine the two into on epic hot mess? Cuz that’s stuff I actually think about man. These are your top 5 foods to eat off various players.
#5 Geovany Soto & Pizza
Gotta represent my favorite team, even though he went to the Angels.
#4 Kris Bryant & Buttered Lobster
As much as I hate the Cubs, gotta give this man some credit.
#3 Dallas Keuchel & Cinnabon Delights
Because the sweet cream would get stuck on his beard.
#2 Mike Trout & Fiery Doritos Tacos
Sorry Mike, Subway isn’t cool. Deal with the Taco Bell.
Angels at Orioles September 16, 2011
#1 Bryce Harper & Baconators
The real reason I even made this list. It’s been a long running joke that i’d eat a baconator off him. I mean, I would. But…yeah.
It took my awhile to compile this list. Sadly there are many MLB legends that all juiced up so coming up with a lineup of legends was pretty hard.
SP – Roger Clemens
One of my least favorite MLB players of all time. I loved how Roger Clemens denied steroid use about 1000 times before finally admitting it. One of the most obvious HGH cases in the history of baseball. Clemens was 45 and still winning 20 games a season, no doubt he was on steroids.
CP – John Rocker
This Atlanta Braves hurler used to cause nightmares for New York Mets fans not because of what a great reliever he was but the fact that he or a Mets fan always did something chaotic every time he came to New York. It was always an electric atmosphere when he would run out of the bullpen at Shea Stadium. I’ll never forget the time a fan jumped onto the field in LA and mooned John Rocker. Chaos. Oh yeah by the way he also juiced up.
LF – Barry Bonds
Barry was one of the most clutch hitters I have ever witnessed, incredible how he could jack a homer out pretty much whenever he wanted. Too bad he juiced up. I love how Barry is the hitting coach for the Marlins now. Definitely has to be encouraging steroid use from Giancarlo Stanton and Marcell Ozuna. Dee Gordon already got caught, I blame Bonds.
DH- Jose Canseco
Canseco straight out of Cuba was one of the craziest people to ever put on a MLB jersey. Just google Jose Canseco crazy and you’ll find stories that will make you laugh for hours. Unreal stuff this guy did on top of taking steroids. My personal favorite crazy story Canseco ever told was saying he ran the 40 in 3.9 seconds. It’s impossible bro just like you acting like a normal human being for more than 30 seconds.
1B- Mark McGwire
McGwire has one of the greatest nicknames in sports…Big Mac…Everyone loves a ginger who can smack 60 home runs a year except when that red head is on steroids. McGwire is still involved in the game much like Bonds most likely encouraging steroid use from the San Diego Padres players.
RF – Sammy Sosa
Slammin Sammy always was a fun guy to watch. He had a great baseball name too. I use to have a Sammy Sosa poster in my room because I was just a fan of his name alone. Sosa had a great career and has to give George W. Bush depression every night. The biggest mistake Bush ever made was trading Sosa to the Cubbies. Sammy, great player. Cubs, bad organization. #AnyoneButTheCubs
CF – Manny Ramirez
Manny just seems like the classic MLB bad guy. If he is on your team then you love him but if he isn’t you hate the guy. Ramirez had some great moments in the Red Sox organization with David Ortiz still one of the best 3-4 hitters I’ve ever seen. Ramirez already admitted to steroids will Ortiz be next?
C – Ivan Rodriguez
I spent most of my childhood bashing this guy because everyone always said that he was the best catcher in the MLB. Nothing used to trigger me more than hearing that Pudge was better than Piazza. That’s absolute chaos one was a steroid user the other unified America with bashing a two run dinger against the Braves after 9/11. Getting back to Pudge he had a great career and brought a second title to Miami and basically resurrected the Detroit Tigers who were irrelevant for over 20 years.
2B- Dee Gordon
As I said earlier definitely blame Barry Bonds for Dee Gordon taking steroids. Up came Dee Gordon from AAA a good guy with a bright future but here comes Barry wanting to ruin someone else’s legacy. My advice to you Dee leave Miami and stay away from Barry.
SS- Miguel Tejada
Miguel Tejada took steroids and was a good player. Don’t really have much to say about Miguel, a pretty boring athlete in my opinion. I did enjoy watching the Tejada/Mora infield with the Orioles but that was because I was a Melvin Mora fan. Needed a shortstop so it was either Tejada or Johnny Peralta. I chose Tejada.
3B – Alex Rodriguez
I never had anything against Alex Rodriguez. Yeah he took steroids which is terrible but the guy got a lot of unnecessary hate especially from the New York Yankee fans. Everyone’s favorite A-Roid moment had to be when he got beat up by Jason Varitek. Great fight, wish we saw more like that in the MLB today. Congrats on the great career A-Roid have fun in retirement.
Oh how the good ol’ days are gone. Just forget my first post about my favorite team. Our season is over. The White Sox were second in all of baseball at 23-10 back in May (only trailing their crosstown rivals), but where are they now? A paltry 59-64. There have still been a few highlights in this dumpster fire of a season, but here are some of the worst moments this season so far, from a quick scan at least.
Chris Sale’s Antics
Everyone expected great things from this guy. He consistently ranks high in Cy Young Award voting, has made the All-Star team the last five years, and set a franchise record for strikeouts in a season last year. But while he started the season 9-0, it’s been the drama around him that’s caught more attention at times. Preseason when Adam Laroche quit after management said he couldn’t bring his son into the clubhouse anymore, Sale was one of the ones most pissed off. Months later, you probably heard about when he sliced up the throwback jersey and got suspended. Let’s just hope the presumed face of the franchise can keep it together here on out.
The Quintana Who Cried Run Support
Oh Jose, you’re too good for us. Often called the most underrated pitcher in the game, he just cant seem to get the offense going behind him. Mind you, this is also the first season he could even get to 10 wins. Somehow though the bats still always stay quiet when he’s on the mound and it’s hard to watch him either lose or get a no-decision when his stuff is that good.
#FireRobin
Not even explaining this one. Ask any Sox fan. We hate him.
Abreu Baby
Kinda going back to the point made with Quintana, Jose has been in his own offensive slump. He went 32 games without hitting a homer, after hitting 30+ in each of his first two seasons. Nobody knows what went wrong. But he’s back at it now. Every player has those off years anyway.
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That’s really just the big four glaring parts to me, because i can’t even begin to complain about the bullpen and injuries. But hey, we’ve at least gotten a few triple plays, that counts for something, right? No? Ok.
Just leave me to my sorrow now. There’s always next year.
Chicago reliever Matt Albers did something nobody expected him to do in Wednesday’s 2-1 win by the White Sox over the Mets. The man got a double in the top of the 13th and then scored off Jose Abreu’s sac fly. He hadn’t even batted since 2009. (That’s seven years if you can’t do basic math. A lot of players’ careers sadly don’t last that long at the level he’s been.)
What surprised me more isn’t that he went on to pitch later that inning and got the win, but that he’s had an incredibly poor run in relief pitching lately and still pulled this off. Not much to make a big deal of with how well NL pitchers do when batting, but it continued what is hopefully a turnaround for the Sox, who’d lost 15 of 19 games before Tuesday’s previous win.
Chris Sale is still the winningest pitcher in baseball and yet to be defeated, winning all 9 of his starts after last night. The guy is simply untouchable.
What’s more surprising is how much the defense has helped him out because while his pitching has improved overall, he finally has great guys out in the field to keep the run count down and more often run support too. His ERA stands at 1.58, the second lowest in the AL after teammate Jose Quintana at 1.54, and run support teamwide already at 12th in the whole league when compared to being 28th last year.
So when will the guy falter? Well he did start the season with a 3.86 ERA even when the fielding was great but it’s to be expected some need the warmup games to get into the groove. Otherwise, I have no idea and don’t even want to think about. The guy has made history as the first on the Sox to go 9-0 since 1919. So I’m just trying to enjoy what the guy’s putting out while I can. And that’s the beauty of this sport.
Pirates starter Gerrit Cole, who beat the Cubs’ Jon Lester in a big pitching duel yesterday, said of the Cubs, “I don’t really think they’re the best team in baseball.” Shade thrown man.
Let’s get a couple things straight here. As much as I hate to admit it, the Cubs are the best team in baseball and way ahead of the Pirates too. They have the best record in baseball, which stands at 27-9. Jon Lester even held a no-hitter until the 7th and that shows how good their pitching staff is even if you take away Jake Arrieta. The Pirates had already lost every game they played with the Cubs this season until this 2-1 victory.
Now in Cole’s defense, there is none. Plain and simple.
The punch seen around the world. Oh here come the tweets comparing it to a certain Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura fight. Done after Bautista got hit by a pitch and later slid seemingly intentionally into Odor’s legs reminiscent of the Chase Utley incident, this really is the biggest fight in baseball in years. Guess he knows to stop flipping them bats now. Watch and enjoy.
Lots of talk after tonight’s game between the Detroit Tigers and Washington Harpers as Bryce dropped the old “Fuck You” bomb on home plate umpire Brian Knight after Washington’s 5-4 walk off victory.
The Backstory: In a tie ball game in the 9th, Nats SS Danny Espinosa got wrung up on a questionable call (ball was in the strike zone) and Harper started chirping Knight. The next batter, Clint Robinson popped a walk off dingleberry to right and then you see the explosion by Harper at home plate.
The Conclusion: Unfortunately in today’s culture we throw out the word “Hardo” way too much. By definition, a ‘hardo’ is somebody who thinks they are tougher and harder than they actually are. In this situation, Harper was absolutely right to chirp the umps ear off. There’s nothing worse than when an umpire takes over the game himself. We saw it with Ron Kulpa on Friday night and we saw it again with Knight today, THAT’S a hardo move. If it was legal, I would love to see players club an ump in the fucking temple when they get out of line. So Bryce, tonight and maybe only tonight- you are a hero and not a hardo.
We finally had enough. Lawd Jesus Yes!!!!! After going 0-4 this year and 79-104 in his career on the team, he’s being designated, a term which roughly means “you suck ass and you’re done” in the baseball world. The picture above actually symbolizes his career as a whole: that glare like “wtf did I just do? god this didn’t go well.” But here goes, 3 reasons why I’m glad this guy is pretty much done.
1-He hasn’t had a winning season since 2010
As a pitcher your job is to not let guys score and hopefully not even let anyone get on base, reducing the workload on the fielders. Very few have had perfect games, and not many more get no-hitters, so that’s all the credit I can give hime. This dumbass has a 23-60 since the same year, 2010. If you lose, your team loses.
2-He hasn’t had an ERA below 4.00 since 2010
Something more concerning than his win count is his earned run average. If you allow guys to score and your team doesn’t have the offense (something the Sox didn’t have in 2015 especially) to make up for your poor outing then go the hell away bro. He’s averaged earned runs in the 4.70 range the last three seasons and that’s simply unacceptable when the team as a whole finished well below .500 on the season in each year.
3-He has a hot wife and enough money to live off of
Danks is married to hot country music star Ashley Monroe, who I mostly know from the Blake Shelton song Lonely Tonight. And sadly he’s taking the $14million of his contract he’s owed this year. We could have gotten Cespedes with that money combined with what we saved from the Laroche retirement, and fellow Gardens member Rabbi wouldn’t have been happy.
So goodbye you overrated, money wasting, bum shoulder washup. You won’t be missed.
Tyler Collins with the hardo move of the day. Collins went to catch an easy pop up against Oakland and made an error. The Detroit fans booed him after the error in which he responded by flipping off the home crowd.
Honestly in this situation I don’t know who is more of the hardo, Collins for flipping off the Detroit fans or the Detroit fans who booed him when they had a 6-0 lead late in the game. It doesn’t make any sense. It wasn’t even like that error caused a runner to come in. You had a 6 run lead. Chill out Michiganders.
No doubt Tyler Collins hates playing in Detroit. None of their players do. This is coming from a Detroit fan, I will even admit the city is not the greatest place to live in. Almost anywhere is better than Detroit.
You know the MLB is so rattled right now. They don’t even know what to do in this situation. Flipping off the opposing team’s fans is one thing but when you flip off your own fans, that’s just insane. This has to be a first.
Fox Sports Detroit is even rattled. They put out this video about how we all have Tyler Collins moments. They don’t even know if they should say Collins was in the wrong. Honestly I’m with them, if I was a member of the media, I wouldn’t even know how to respond to this situation. Confusing stuff.
Experiencing one of those Tyler Collins moments … Haven't we all been there?https://t.co/5zz58ZyQOX
There are 2 things that we can learn from this situation: Detroit fans have no faith in their bullpen. How can you boo a guy for making a measly error when you are up 6-0 late in a game? The second is Tyler Collins definitely has anger issues. I hope this isn’t the last we hear of young Tyler. Keep the middle finger high to the sky.
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