Sweet Uncle Lou’s Friday Roundup: The “I Thought Skeletor Was Evil” Edition

Joe Girardi has always been a weird-looking dude. But until the folks at Halos Heaven pointed it out, I didn’t realize how much he looks like Skeletor. Apparently, he used whatever the opposite of power of Greyskull is (the power of Snake Mountain?) on his way home from winning the World Series to assist a [...]

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The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #59: “Cryin’” Ryan Klesko

I’m going to be honest here. Ryan Klesko didn’t particularly kill the Cubs any more than he did any other team. He didn’t rise to the occasion against Cub pitching. He didn’t perform well in Wrigley Field. In fact, Klesko was actually worse against the Cubs than his career averages suggest he should have been. [...]

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1986 Kicked Ass

Last night when my goddamn Comcast DVR box decided not to record Lost EVEN THOUGH, Lost is number one on my “Series Priority List,” and EVEN THOUGH it decided to record the Lost rerun immediately before it and Life on Mars immediately after it, I decided to watch some of the old stuff I had [...]

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Friday Night Fukudome: Blagojevich vs. Bonds

Two men. Two pleas of innocence. Two full heads of hair. VS. Rod Blagojevich Barry Bonds

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Friday Night Fukudome: Barry Bonds vs. Roger Clemens

After Roger Clemens’ utterly ridiculous denial of his alleged steroid abuse (It took you THAT long to come up with the exact same story Tejada came up with, Roger? Really?), I got to wondering whether Clemens has usurped Barry Bonds’ long-held position as my least favorite baseball player. Bonds: Was once made to look a [...]

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