Offbeat

… I thought it was worthy of a post here on TDD. Caltech’s baseball team played a doubleheader against Pacifica on Saturday. In the first game, Pacifica won 5-0, but in the second game, Caltech beat them 9-7. Well, what’s so relevant about that? Caltech’s win snapped a 10-year, 228-game losing streak. They were actually [...]

Delmon Young, a free agent who most recently played with the Detroit Tigers, has signed a one-year, $750,000 contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. However, Young may be receiving more money if he just loses a little weight. Background info: When Young signed the contract yesterday, he weighed in at 238 pounds. Young will be weighed [...]

For the first time since 1996 and the second time in four decades, there weren’t any baseball players that were selected for induction into the Hall of Fame, says the Chicago Tribune. Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens faced a jury Wednesday, and the jury decided that they weren’t worthy enough to be in [...]

Bids start at only $100,000! Now, Rose’s personal copy of the 1989 agreement—the only other original copy belongs to Major League Baseball—is being put up for bid by Goldin Auctions. In addition to Rose’s autograph, the pact features the signatures of Rose’s attorney, Giamatti and Fay Vincent, the deputy commissioner who ended up succeeding Giamatti. [...]

October 1, 2012 – Evan Stambaugh The Orioles went 19-9 in September and clinched a spot in the playoffs for the first time since 1997. However, even though they have been on fire, the plane which was taking them to Tampa Bay had a small fire. Roch Kubatko of MASN posted this on Twitter (per [...]

September 30, 2012 – Evan Stambaugh Michael Morse of the Nationals was asked to hit a grand slam with an invisible bat after a call was overturned in Saturday’s game between the Nats and the Cardinals. I’ll try to explain this in more detail as thoroughly as possible. Okay, so Morse hit a fly ball [...]

September 5, 2012 – Evan Stambaugh My eyes must be deceiving me. It’s September 5th, and in the AL East, the Baltimore Orioles are in a tie with the New York Yankees for first place. What on earth? The last time when the Orioles were playing relevant baseball was in 1998, when they won 98 [...]

August 25, 2012 – Evan Stambaugh Orioles DH Chris Davis ended up swinging for the fences three times in last night’s game against the Blue Jays. Cool, eh? But I’m not finished yet… remember a game back in May between the O’s and the Red Sox that went to the 17th inning? Davis actually pitched [...]

August 20, 2012 – Evan Stambaugh I bet it’s hard to transcribe for closed captioning, and this horrible typo from yesterday’s LA Angels/Tampa Bay Rays game is proof. [Deadspin] [...]

August 16, 2012 – Evan Stambaugh Via ESPN Stats & Info: “Following last night’s loss to the Orioles, the Red Sox are 0-13 on Ben Affleck’s birthday since the release of Good Will Hunting in 1997.” I don’t know how those ESPN researchers find this stuff, but whatever. [...]