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. And that the catcher will be plenty busy fielding balls split in two.
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September 3, 2009 - 11:20 am
The 2003 Los Angeles Dodgers had one of the greatest pitching staffs the game of baseball has ever known. At the height of the steroids era, in a season when 104 players would test positive for performance enhancing drugs, the Dodgers hurlers posted a 3.16 ERA, good enough for an insane 128 team ERA+, and [...]
August 31, 2009 - 11:19 am
Okay, so at a time when most people are debating whether or not the Washington Nationals can even break .500 next season, this is going to sound more than a little crazy, but I think the Nats have an outside chance at contending next season.
I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but I am saying [...]
June 29, 2009 - 9:30 pm
We here at Umpbump have done quite a few all-time teams. We’ve also cataloged quite a series of Hot Baseball Wives. In this post, I will attempt the acrobatic feat of bridging the twain. Yes, reader: The All-Hot Team.
For reasons of attention span, or specifically, the lack of it, I am focusing on current major [...]
May 24, 2009 - 3:05 am
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.
But as we close in on the two month mark, it [...]
July 1st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Hmm I wonder if any Major League GM has watched this video and thought, “maybe he could pl…What am I thinking? That was pretty cool though.”
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July 1st, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Love it. Do all Japanese TV shows rent out that same air-horn?
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July 1st, 2009 at 10:01 pm
This is the awesomest youtube video I have ever watched.
It would have been awesome enough if he held the sword like a baseball bat, but it was even more badass the way he kept it in the scabbard until the ball was already on its way. That is a quick draw!
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July 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
I’m just loving the google ad above the comments here. Handmadesword.com. Everyone in the world should have one. Everyone.
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July 7th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Point to ponder: If one part of the ball went fair and the other part fell into foul territory, what’s the call?
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