With Leather’s Watch This: It’s Wild Card Wednesday

Written by Ashley Burns / 09.19.12

People are too hard on baseball. “Wahhhhh, shorten the season, 162 games is too long, my penis is too short,” people who hate baseball often say. Well to them I say that they might as well hate the smile of a child or the whiskers of a puppy. They may as well loathe the sunrise and detest the starry sky. And above all else they should just go ahead and cast Kate Upton’s giant breasts into the fiery lakes of hell, because baseball is still the greatest.

Thankfully, now we have two Wild Card spots in each league and that means more action down to the final day of the season.

Wednesday Night Baseball: Oakland Athletics at Detroit Tigers – 7 PM ET on ESPN

I don’t pay a lot of attention to the American League, so when I saw the A’s record the other day, I about pissed my leather pants. In fact, looking at this incredibly important matchup for the Tigers, I would have guessed that Detroit was 20-some-odd games above .500. Stupid Brad Pitt and his excellent general management skills.

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Sports On TV: King Of The Hill’s 25 Greatest Sports Moments

Written by Brandon Stroud / 08.02.12


King Of The Hill Olympic Torch

Previous ‘Sports On TV’ columns (for ‘Saved By The Bell’ and ‘Full House’) have been fun to write but a pain to suffer through for research, because seriously, have you tried watching an 8th season episode of ‘Full House’ in 2012? Those columns sorta celebrate the badness of sports on TV, and how they get shoehorned in when people run out of love triangles and job jokes don’t have anything to write about.

So it’s with great pride that I present the third ‘Sports On TV’ effort, celebrating the 25 best sports moments from one of the best and most under-appreciated animated comedies ever made, FOX’s ‘King Of The Hill’. If you haven’t seen it before or just flip past it when you’re looking for ‘Squidbillies’ episodes on Adult Swim, the show’s entire 13-season run is available on Netflix streaming and is one of the best ways to spend 130-ish hours. What made the sports on ‘King Of The Hill’ great is that they aren’t accessories to the action … they’re focal points, important or not, just like in real life.

I’m lucky to have some great guest columnists this week, so I hope you enjoy the list. And yeah, there are at least 40 other moments we could’ve included here, so consider this part 1 of an eventual 50 Greatest Sports Moments Of ‘King Of The Hill’. We’ll loop back around when I realize Golden Girls didn’t have 20 sports moments on it.

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Someone Needs To Check Rangers Ballpark In Arlington For Worms

Written by Brandon Stroud / 06.25.12

He breaks out the “windmill” for walk-offs. (via Holdout Sports)

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This Video Don’t Impress Me Much

Written by Brandon Stroud / 06.19.12

The woman in Yu Darvish needs the man in you. (via Total Pro Sports)

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Still Pretty Good For A Guy With No Legs

Written by Brandon Stroud / 05.17.12

Gary Sinise throws terrible first pitch at Texas Rangers game

Actor Gary Sinise has accomplished a lot in his 35-year film career — he’s shot Lennie Small in the back of the head, gone on a mission to Mars, helped the Apollo astronauts get back to Earth and dropped an atomic bomb on World War II Japan — but he’s most famous for his role as Forrest Gump’s lieutenant Dan Taylor, a depressed amputee who comes from a long line of soldiers with a dubious history of dying in combat.

So it is in “dubious history of dying” spirit I present to you this clip of Sinise throwing out the first pitch at Wednesday’s Texas Rangers/Oakland Athletics game. You know it’s bad when a guy in a horse costume has to console you.

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Oh God, The Ron Washington Puppet

Written by Brandon Stroud / 05.17.12

Go into the light until we meet again. That’s what the Texas Rangers say again and again. Salamé! (via Sportress Of Blogitude)

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