might be the greatest thing I’ve seen, ever.

but you can never deny that he has an awesome mustache.

I love Japanese baseball. Shinjo was probably my first taste of it when he came over here. Everything is just more…Japanese (Duh)- the announcers, the players, the fans. It’s great stuff. Most interesting, I think, is to see all of the varied and sometimes odd pitching wind-ups that the various pitchers have there.

Jeff Francoeur has grit. Real men don’t need anesthesia. Grit is worth a big, multi-year contract. Having an OBP significantly higher than batting average is for sissies.

Lols at the Metsblog link, where a commenter is talking about how he/she finds other Mets fans ignorant. While it’s definitely true, that’s a huge case of the pot calling the kettle black, what with it being Metsblog and everything.

Cole Hamels being proverbially bitchslapped? Great. That it’s Bret Myers doing the proverbial bitchslapping? It’s only fitting…Classic case of a"blue collar", “beer drinking”, “cheesesteaking eating” “everyman” raging against the “he whiny voic[ed]”, “fashion-mag looks” “Southern California[n]” proletariat Cole Hamels.

And, baseball is the national pastime. Articles/people who say otherwise based on television ratings make me chuckle.