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- Yankees’ lineup is mashing this year 8:20pm Jul 2
- Samurai Baseball 1:07pm Jul 1
- The All-Hot Team 6:30pm Jun 29
If you’re anything like me, then you’ve probably spent endless hours wondering what baseball would be like if we replaced bats with samurai swords. Well, I wonder no more. It would be super exciting for a couple of pitches. Then you realize that you’ll run out of baseballs pretty quickly...
Pujols polishes his wood We here at Umpbump have done quite a few all-time teams. We’ve also cataloged quite a series of visit site to read more] Tagged: all-time teams, hotness
Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this week’s honoree is Rie Park, the wife of Phillies hurler Chan Ho Park. Rie grew up in Japan, as a third generation Korean-Japanese (”Rie” is the Japanese spelling of her name. Her Korean name is “Ri-Hye”)...
Has anyone noticed how much ESPN.com, especially their “MLB” page, sucks over the weekend? Maybe not, since the time when most people most obsessively check the internet is during the week, when they are at work and supposed to be doing other things...
CUBS SUCK … [visit site to read more] Tagged: Cardinals, Cubs
MLBAM has been quite the busy little new media whore. … [visit site to read more] Tagged: broadcasting, mlb advance media, MLB new media goons, mlb.tv, sling media, sling player
I am simply astonished to see how often Joe Torre is making Russell Martin catch all 9 innings in interleague matchups in AL parks so far this year...
So this is the lineup that the Mets ran out there tonight against the St. Louis Cardinals: 1. SS Alex Cora 2. 1B David Murphy 3. 3B David Wright 4. LF Fernando Tatis...
Earlier today I wrote a post looking back at my preseason picks to see how right I was (to the extent that anybody can be right about something 2/5 of the way through the season). And brother, when I’m right, I’m right. Except when it comes to predicting the AL West...
So yeah, shades of 2007, it looks like God has taken a liking to the Colorado Rockies once more, as they are currently in the midst of a 17-1 tear. But the single scariest thing about this whole team is not their ability to beat all comers despite being managed by Jim Tracy...
Here we are, about 2/5 of the way through the season, and I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of the predictions I made in March and see how they’re holding up. NL East: Phillies — Obviously, Philadelphia’s pitching has been a disaster of late...
As of this writing, Ray Durham is still a free agent. Yes, the same Ray Durham who posted an .812 OPS last season, including an outstanding .380 OBP, and played league-average defense at second base...
Few people thought the Mariners would contend this year, yet amazingly, they are only 5 1/2 games out of first place in the AL West at the moment. With the division looking quite weak this year, I say they should go for it...
The Giants have surprised me this season by playing reasonably good baseball, sporting a record of 34-30 so far, good enough for second place in the NL West...
Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this week’s honoree is Julianna Zobrist, aspiring singer of Christian-themed electronic pop/rock music and wife of Tampa Bay Rays utilityman Ben Zobrist...
The other day I was walking around the house, reveling in the latest Phillies victory, and spouting off to my fiancee Suz about how great Chase Utley is when she asked me, “Is he going to the Hall of Fame?” I told her that Utley got a bit of a late start, that he didn’t play his first full...
Sarah and I will be live-blogging today’s Sox-Phils tilt. Game time is 1:35 p.m. EST. It’s Beckett vs. Happ, and somehow, ESPN’s Accuscore projection says the Phils are favored. I guess you can’t argue with science. – Hi there, team. Sarah here...
From left to right, Chipper Jones, Matt Duff (former St...
Well that’s something I’d never seen… In last night’s 10th inning victory over the Royals, the Indians’ Shin-Soo Choo came up to the plate with no outs and runners on first and second...
When a team drafts the General Manager’s son in the fifth round in a huge reach like the White Sox did for Kenny Williams, Jr. in last year’s amateur draft, you should be amused and make cracks about nepotism...
I discovered half an hour ago that WGN is in my cable package – awesome. In the half hour since realizing this, I have witnessed Milton Bradley: (1) Run on contact from 2nd to 3rd with 1 out on a ball hit directly in front of him, getting **TAGGED** out immediately...
Today the AJC’s Mark Bradley takes us inside the Turner Field clubhouse, so we can see what Bobby Cox’s semi-secret office looks like. Bradley says Cox “heads to the Batcave 3 1/2 hours before … [visit site to read more] Tagged: AJC, Bobby Cox, defibrillat
For some reason, Kevin Millar appears totally unconcerned at the prospect that Mike Lowell might try to steal second.visit site to read more] Tagged: baserunning, Mike Lowell, Red Sox, stolen base
This past Friday, Nick wrote a post with the simple premise - if you can cut one person from each team in the National League, who would it be? And people got angry. Very, very angry. They called us names...
Perfect evidence of why stats are so important to give a more realistic evaluation of defense, as opposed to just going on observation alone, can be found in the Baseball Tonight Web Gem leaderboards, which have finally appeared on visit site to read more] Tagged: baseball-tonight, defense,...
Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this week, in honor of Phillie reliever J.C. Romero’s getting reinstated to the roster after completing his 50-game suspension for a first offense … [visit site to read more] Tagged: Erin Romero, JC Romero, Phillies
There’s been lots of frowning and brow-furrowing so far this season about the rate at which homers have been sailing out of the yard at the new Yankee Stadium, but the sooner we can all just accept, the sooner we can move on with life and the enjoying of baseball...
With the season one-third gone now, it’s become pretty clear which players were only slumping and which players actually just suck at baseball...
On Wednesday we asked readers to guess how many people would show up to watch Randy Johnson try to win number 300, despite the rain, the fact that the game was in Washington D.C., and that the Big Unit is kind of a jerk. But the game got postponed...
I understand the Pirates players being upset about the Nate McLouth trade. But me thinks they need some proper perspective: On Thursday, at the clubhouse table where McLouth used to play cards with relievers Sean Burnett and Jesse Chavez, a candle bearing his uniform No...
It seems like the Pirates are always getting fleeced on trades, going all the way back to the days of Cam Bonifay...
Yesterday, we asked readers to guess how many people would show up to watch Randy Johnson attempt to win his 300th game. At stake was a copy of Ron Darling’s new book, “The Complete Game.” But the game got rained out. So here’s what we’re going to do...
The Atlanta Braves just cut Tom Glavine, moving themselves from my “teams which are kind of annoying” list to my “list of teams I officially hate.” visit site to read more] Tagged: Atlanta Braves, douchery, Frank Wren, released, Tom Glavi
I’ll state up front that I’m a little more interested in this story than most people, because because I’m from the same part of southeastern Pennsylvania as Ben Davis and he and I have attended the same Super Bowl party in the past...
On Wednesday, Randy Johnson goes for his 300th win against the Nationals in D.C. The big question: how many people will show up to watch...
Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and today, on what would have been her 83rd birthday, we pay tribute to perhaps the hottest baseball wife of them all. Pictures after the jump… … [visit site to read more]
Philadelphia Inquirer’s Don McKee thinks the Phils need to go all in for Jake Peavy. Forget the talk that he doesn’t want to come here. Overwhelm the Padres with prospects and make a tentative deal...
Oh boy. Photo courtesy of The Legend of Cecilio … [visit site to read more] Tagged: David Wright, WYOC
One thing that has been really bothering me ever since Joe Torre took over as manager of the Dodgers last year is that he basically never ever uses the double switch. A perfect example … [visit site to read more] Tagged: Dodgers, double switch, Joe Torre
It’s graduation season! A lot of honors handed out (unless you’re Obama). So what better time to tackle a topic like Albert Belle’s Hall of Fame candidacy? No better time, says I...
While arguing a call made following a play at the plate in this afternoon’s Cubs-Pirates matchup, Carlos Zambrano (let’s face it, the man has some serious problems) nudged umpire Mark Carlson, earning him an ejection...
Look, it’s well known that we here at UmpBump are generally against most types of facial hair...
Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at UmpBump, and this week’s honoree is Heidi DeRosa, the wife of Cleveland Indians infielder Mark DeRosa...
Pirates suckage is the cure for all that ails the White Sox … [visit site to read more] Tagged: Pirates, White Sox
The rate at which home runs have been flying out of the new Yankee Stadium has been a hot topic since the first weeks of the season, but up to now the statheads have been urging caution and calm. “Small sample size” they have cried...
The Chicago White Sox are scuffling along this season with a 19-23 record, but are still only 5.5 games out of first in the AL Central, so Sox fans are holding out hope for a turnaround. They probably should not hold their breath...
David Ortiz finally hit a dinger. I don’t think words can quite do justice to the response in Fenway...
Nobody expected the Texas Rangers to be dominating the AL West this year, the way they have so far. Yeah, we all know about their explosive offense and their bevy of top prospects, but we also know that their pitching still sucks, and most of those prospects are at least a year away...
We’re living in a golden age of third basemen! Weeeeeee! Second base is the new third base! How chic! visit site to read more] Tagged: centerfield, happy, second base, third base, third basemen
The New York Mets and LA Dodgers just played the worst baseball game I have ever seen. In an extremely tight game that ultimately wound up in a 3-2 victory for the Dodgers in 11 innings, the Dodgers did just about everything possible to lose, in a conventional sense...
I’m not exactly sure what Trevor Hoffman was doing this offseason, but at this point it wouldn’t surprise me if he had been wandering the depths of the Florida Everglades with a map left behind by Ponce De León...
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