Strikes me as interesting....

Tonight, the Detroit Tigers are playing the Atlanta Braves. Pitching for Detroit? Kenny Rogers of Savannah, Georgia. Pitching for Atlanta? John Smoltz of Warren, Michigan.

I just think that's kind of cool.

UPDATE: Strikes. Oh jeez. That title was not even an intentional pun.

This is now old news, but I kept forgetting to write it.

I'm excited because one of my favorite athletes was named to the College Baseball Hall of Fame.

And another

Dear Scott Rolen,

I hate you. Strike out.

How the heck was that Brandon Inge's fault?

Confusedly,
Alfie

P.S. I HATE YOU.

Yet another baseball letter

Dear Joe Buck,

Seriously, shut up. You are an idiot. Shut up.

A diehard Tigers fan,
Alfie

P.S. One of us knows what irony is and it isn't you, so stop talking about things being ironic.

Argh

Dear Johnny Damon,

Ahem. When you took off your helmet today, you appeared to have some blond highlights. Ew. Neanderthal to metrosexual? How 'bout no.

Ick,

Alfie

Ahem

Dear Jason Giambi,

Thank you for being the most amusing member of the New York Yankees baseball team. While the organization seems to have had luck making Johnny Damon not look like a neanderthal, they seem to have had no effect on you.

Your hair is kind of scraggly looking and my oh my, your uniform looked like pyjamas. Your teammates appear to wear belts, making their uniforms look like uniforms. You look like you're wearing some freakin' ugly pinstripe PJs. One can only hope they have footies.

A diehard Tigers fan,

Alfie

Game 2, 1st Inning

Bases loaded, Verlander strikes out ARod.


HAHA!

Go Tigers!!!

Beat those damn Yankees!

I bet Sarah's glad she doesn't live at home anymore

I was watching the Detroit Tigers-Chicago White Sox game tonight and the commentators mentioned Mike Scioscia. As I am both a baseball and Simpsons fan, I felt it necessary to try and discover what happened to Mr. Burns's Dream Team from the episode "Homer at the Bat."

In the episode, the players were as follows:

Pitcher: Roger Clemens (hypnotised to think he's a chicken) - currently playing in the minor leagues
Catcher: Mike Scioscia (suffered radiation poisoning) - has been the manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
First Baseman: Don Mattingly (kicked off the team because Mr. Burns did not know what sideburns were) - Now the hitting coach for the New York Yankees, no longer has a moustache, appears not to have sideburns
Second Baseman: Steve Sax (sentenced to six life sentences for every unnsolved murder in New York City) - now a financial consultant in California
Shortstop: Ozzie Smith (fell into the Mystery Spot) - inducted into Cooperstown in 2002, son Nikko was a contestant on American Idol
Third Baseman: Wade Boggs (unconscious on the floor of Moe's Bar after a fight with Barney Gumble over the greatest English Prime Minister; Boggs favored Pitt the Elder, Barney favored Lord Palmerston) - now a high school baseball coach in Florida
Right Field: Darryl Strawberry (played most of the game but was taken out so Homer could pinch hit) - arrests, divorce, etc.
Center Field: Ken Griffey Jr. (overdosed on nerve tonic, causing gigantisism) - actually still in the Major Leagues, playing for the Cincinnati Reds
Left Field: Jose Canseco (missed the game trying to save a baby, pets, household appliances, etc. from a burning house) - admitted to using steroids, implicated many teammates, no longer in Major League Baseball

I watched The Simpsons after the game. I was kind of hoping it would be this episode. It wasn't. Now I'm sad. :(

I go to a country without baseball and THIS happens?

Chicago White Sox in the World Series. Possibly against Houston. Blargh.