Baseball is Special

I’ve always been more of a football fan. Mostly college.  But in the last couple years, I’ve gravitated toward baseball. I’ve become a Giants fan because my mom who lives in S.F. became a fan after their 2010 championship season. My mom has never been into sports and now she watches every game and reads Bill James Baseball Abstract.

The Giants have a great team. Buster, Big Panda, Timmy and Matty are just plain fun to watch.  They’re struggling this season with their usually dominant pitching, but they’ve somehow found ways to win anyway. I think Bochy is the best manager in baseball.

So next time you say baseball is boring watch a Giants game. Something wonderful will happen at some point and until then you can always drink beer and wonder why you can’t play third base when you’re just as big as Big Panda.

Too Cool To Drool

This is Verne’s week.  Karma has come to town and she’s evening the score.  Or at least she’s helping to avoid a blow out.

Score so far:

Verne: 3

Universe: 6,345,924,259,823,945

But it’s only the top of the third.  Plenty of time to catch up.

 

Frosty the Snow Pawn

Sometimes you hit it out of the park.  Sometimes you strike out.

And sometimes you hit a lazy pop fly that gets caught in the sun and dropped by the shortstop with a Jagermeister hangover.

You’re still on base.  Still in the game.

Barely.

Hammy Explains the Infield Fly Rule

It’s a little risky doing a gag like this since if you have no idea what the actual infield fly rule is than the strip makes no sense.  Or, more precisely, less sense than it usually does.

For those of you in the dark here’s Wikipedia’s definition of the Infield Fly Rule:

The infield fly rule is a baseball rule that is intended to prevent infielders from intentionally dropping pop-ups in order to turn double plays (or triple plays). Without this rule, a defense could easily turn a pop-up into a double play when there are runners at first and second base. If the runners stay near their bases to tag up, the defense could let the ball drop, throw to third base and then to second, for a force-out at each base. If any of the runners stray too far from their bases, the defense could catch the pop-up, and double-off any runner that failed to tag up.

See, NOW it’s funny.

Why aren’t you laughing?

Sigh.