why i bag on matt harvey

Matt Harvey was a non-entity to me his freshman year. He started on the weekends, but I was much more concerned with the bullpen, with Alex White and Adam Warren, than I was with the Harv. To the point where I have more photos of Buster Posey (two), who didn’t even play for Carolina, than…

matt harvey and his mustache

In honor of Matt Harvey’s excellent MLB debut last night, Mets fans, let’s all take a moment for honoring another contributor to Matt Harvey’s career path to this debut: Matt Harvey’s mustache. It was kind of patchy, and it was with us only briefly, but it was there, once. And so, let us stand with…

baseball: va tech @ unc

Twenty six and twenty seven. The Heels sent seniors Ryan Graepel, Mike Cavisinni and Colin Bates (a redshirt junior who graduated in May) off with a resounding series sweep of Virginia Tech this weekend. Bittersweet because we’re still out of the ACC tournament thanks to Georgia Tech failing to get it done in sweeping BC,…

baseball: unc @ duke, game two

baseball: unc @ duke, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Twenty five. (Albeit without a new photo, because I went out without a battery in the camera last night, like a complete moron. This one’s from early March.) If you’d told me two years ago that I would get a little vapoury when Matt Harvey…

baseball: wake forest @ unc, game 2

baseball: wake forest @ unc, game 2, originally uploaded by minervacat. Twenty three. A large part of Carolina’s problems this season can be linked to the fact that, before yesterday, they hadn’t won a game on a Saturday since March 20. It’s nice to go into Sunday knowing that you’ve already taken the series, and…

baseball: nc state @ unc, game three

baseball: nc state @ unc, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Nineteen. Just a couple of hours after I took this, no one on the UNC baseball team had any hair anymore. (Photos of that are here.)

baseball: nc state @ unc

Seventeen and eighteen. Players will ALWAYS look for shortcuts; if you told Pat Burrell he could legally avoid second base and just run directly from first to third straight over the pitcher’s mound, he’d do it. — Rob Iracane for Walkoff Walk

baseball: ga tech @unc, game three

baseball: ga tech @unc, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Fourteen. Now I know why the basketball team’s season didn’t fuss me; I was saving the heartache for baseball.

baseball: ga tech @ unc, game two

baseball: ga tech @ unc, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Thirteen. shep. bought herself a Sigma 70-300mm lens, and it’s kind of glorious. Way more glorious than last night’s game, alas. I love the baseball team fiercely and without reserve, mostly for themselves but in a small part because everyone loves the basketball team…