Category Archive: sport
Aug 05
Fuck Cleveland
pic nicked from here But, at the same time, looking at those hats, I can’t decide if baseball needs less racism or more.
Jul 18
If You Can’t Pitch Right . . . Part Two
It’s the ninth inning and your team has a lead so slim it’s anorexic. The bad guys have the bases loaded and their best hitter at the plate. He’s been tearing the cover off the ball all night and looks ready to do it again. This is exactly the sort of situation he thrives in. …
Jun 07
Access Denied (Mike Wilner)
It’s a subject I’ve often gone on about here: That access is used as bludgeon and bait to control media opinion. It happens with big subjects, it happens with little ones but I was surprised to see it happen in baseball. Mike Wilner, who hosts the Fan 590′s post-game, baseball call in show was suspended …
Jun 05
Hill and Fred
I know we beat the Yankees today but FUCK YOU ARIZONA!!! There’s no way that you should have the All Star game. If MLB had any balls at all, you wouldn’t. Races that play together win together. So you can take all that white supremacist shit and shove it up your ass. Cheers.
Jun 02
If You Can’t Pitch Right . . .
In life there’s two sorts of people: Those who think there’s two sorts of people and those who don’t. I’ve never thought there’s only two sorts of people. I’m not even sure that people can be put into “sorts.” There’s people and there’s the positions they play. When I’m in one of those “two sorts …
May 04
Ichiro
“Chicks who dig home runs aren’t the ones who appeal to me. I think there’s sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I’d rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by …
- Author (Aurora Award Shortlisted, Technicolor Ultra Mall)
- Blogger (Obviously)
- Critic (Various Places, Various Things)
- Speaker (Panels, contest judge, etc.)
- One of Toronto's 12 Most Stylish (Toronto Life)
- Futurist (The weather will be . . .)
- Husband (Over two years now.)
- Worker (Cause writing is glamour.)
- Dandy (But probably not how you mean it.)
- Contact ( ryan dot oakley at gmail dot com)
