Nineteen & twenty. Celebrated independence with a doubleheader yesterday, first the US National Collegiate Team taking on their Japanese counterparts, and then the Bulls (America’s favorite minor league team!) taking on the Braves. It was hot, but lovely.
Tag: baseball
it’s a nickname waiting to happen
Double dipping with two from the archives, since today guys-I’ve-seen-play-before-they-were-famous seems to be a theme: Alex White (#6) and Dustin Ackley (#13), top, both of whom made their MLB debuts this year, during their last ACC home series at Carolina; and bottom, freshly promoted Indians 3B Lonnie Chisenhall, when he was with the Kinston Indians — who are,…
baseball: scranton wilkes-barre yankees @ durham bulls
Eighteen. The Alpha Site goes to see the Yankees when they come to town every year, because shep.’s a native New Yorker and lifelong Yankees fan; as we like to see the future of my ballclub playing for the Tides (outlook: dismal), we like to see the future of her ballclub, too. They got thumped on Sunday evening, but Kei…
college baseball: unc-asheville @ unc
Eleven. A lesson to all young pitchers: if a batter sends a particular pitch 425 feet out of the park, don’t throw it to him again in his second at-bat. It will, like the first pitch, go real far, real fast, right out of the stadium. Bryant Gaines was otherwise stellar, the bullpen was beastly,…
baseball: tides @ bulls, april ’11
Eight. The Tides are 1-8, because everyone useful who was in our farm system is now with the big club, who are also useless. Sigh.
happy national poetry month
159 Ways To Get On Base (Zach Hample) Squib, squirt, nub, chop, Drive, line, send, pop. Lift, loft, lace, lash, Scald, slice, serve, slash. Slap, swat, belt, smack, Loop, bloop, bounce, whack. Fist, flare, muscle, mash, Deliver, doink, unload, smash. Rifle, plaster, pepper, jack, Rip, rope, deposit, crack. Push, pull, clobber, knock, Bash, tag, tattoo,…
college baseball: clemson @ unc
Five, six, and seven. The best thing about Clemson baseball, besides how many curse words head coach Jack Leggett knows, is knowing that all those Clemson fans had to live in Clemson, South Carolina at one point. It’s very satisfying. Of course, so is a three game sweep starting with two ass-whoopings and finishing with…
baseball: stony brook @ unc
Two. Stony Brook, in getting outscored 34-11 over the weekend, did not lend any credence to the theory that northern college baseball teams, a few exceptions excluded, are getting any more regularly competitive with the warm weather teams. Carolina knocked the snot out of them in Game 2 of the series Saturday, and our pitching…
baseball: seton hall @ unc, game 2
One. A perfect short sleeve sunny baseball afternoon, and Carolina improves to 6-0, winning 7-1. Everyone on the team, coaches included, is rocking the tall socks this year, and I couldn’t be happier. Full photo set here.
happy pitchers and catchers day!
Matt Wieters: the subject of all love songs ever written. Happy pitchers and catchers!
brand new kind of photography 