General Sports Water Cooler

lmao the ump spit his gum on Bobby Vs face

I just saw the play that got Dale Sveum ejected from the Cubs-White Sox game today. That was about as ridiculous as the Hrbek/Gant call in the 1991 WS.

The last paragraph of Joe Pos' piece on Kerry Wood is just beautiful:

"In that game on Friday he faced one batter: a left fielder named Dayan Viciedo, who was a nine-year-old living in Cuba when Kerry Wood struck out 20 and was unlimited. Viciedo fouled off a high inside fastball that the radar gun read at 96 mph. He fouled off a curveball. And then he swung over and missed on the last curveball, which hit the dirt. Three pitches. A strikeout. The Cubs went to the mound to shake his hand. The fans at Wrigley stood and applauded. Maybe the career could have been more. Definitely, though, it could have been less. As Kerry Wood walked off the field to the cheers, this thought crossed: Life usually doesn’t work out the way you hoped or planned. All you can do is keep on going, and if you are tough enough and a little bit lucky you can get a few things done. And if you are even luckier, maybe, just maybe, you can strike out the last batter you face."

I really don't care what Ozzie Guillen says about the Miami Heat or Dwyane Wade, but I thought this was interesting.

"You know how many players I take out of the game and they go in the back and talk crap about me?" Guillen said.

"I don't care because I'm going to talk crap about them. If I take you out of the game it's for a reason. You think I want to take you out of the game? You think I want to pinch-hit for you? I pinch-hit for you because you suck. There's somebody else I thought was better than you."

I can't imagine telling your players they suck is good for morale, but what do I know?

Lol at Adam Lind

Yadier Molina is piece of shit, right? I don't really watch the Cards much, I'm just kind of running with the neck tattoo and assuming.

LA Times slobbing all over Mattingly's knob for letting Van Slyke swing away on 3-0 last night... Wonder what they'd be saying had he popped out.

@richardjustice
MLB drew 1.65 million fans last weekend, largest pre-Memorial Day weekend ever. Best-attended 45-game weekend since end of 2008 season

One of those dips isn't like the others.

Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan

Full year-over-year attendance here at Baseball-Reference: http://bit.ly/lAQrwp. Biggest gains: MIA, DET, TEX. Dips: LAA, MIN, CLE.

Only 11 teams are officially drawing fewer fans than last season. If the Red Sox weren't cooking their numbers, that would make 12.

Once again proving that payroll literally means nothing in baseball

‏@JeffPassan: The A's, Rays, Jays, Indians Nats and O's all rank in the bottom dozen of payroll -- and all have better records than the top five teams.

BASEBALL, HOT DOGS, APPLE PIE AND CHEVROLET!

very special series of commercials, imho