May 2012
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BJ Upton To Become The Official Baseball...
oldtimefamilybaseball:
(Reuters Pictures)
BJ Upton has always been a frustrating player. Despite being blessed with an endless array of tools and abilities, Upton has never come close to matching his 2007 season when he hit .300/.386/.522 as a 22-year-old. Since that time, and despite three 40+ steal seasons, Upton has batted only .250/.337/.408, just barely ahead of league average, and has...
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Your Lifestyle Choices Have Consequences
oldtimefamilybaseball:
Derek Holland Sans Mustache: 1.2 IP, 8 H, 8 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO
Freddie Freeman Augmented By Goggles: 3-for-5, 1 HR, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R
Now, I’m not saying that having a mustache and wearing goggles would make you an unstoppable baseball machine, one that was just as comfortable blowing mid-90s heat by batters as you would be smashing giant taters, but I’m not not saying...
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Zach Wahls delivers petition supporting gay scout... →
gaywrites:
Teen activist Zach Wahls, whose testimony for marriage equality in Iowa went viral, delivered a petition urging the Boy Scouts of America to reinstate a den leader who was forced out of her position when it was discovered she was gay.
Jennifer Tyrrell, the mother of a 7-year-old Cub Scout, started a petition on Change.org in April after being told she couldn’t be a den leader anymore...
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According to Simon Pegg, Khan is not in the next...
iheartchaos:
A while back, a lot of people seemed really damn certain that Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan in JJ Abrams’ next Star Trek film. But according to actor Simon Pegg, that’s not the case. He can’t say who Cumberbatch is, but he’s not Khan.
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THE PLOT THICKENS.
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virgin identity →
I don’t have time to write a lot about this, but I think it’s kind of interesting. Apparently there’s a rising trend toward male virgins in romance novels. (Is there an inverse trend for fewer female virgins? It’s not clear!)
I think what I find really interesting, though, is that there’s still this trend toward virginity at all, especially in contemporaries. Why is...
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Shut Yo Mouth
oldtimefamilybaseball:
David Ortiz on Albert Pujols:
“Albert Pujols? Let me tell you something about Albert Pujols. Albert Pujols is a bad mother f—-er. The baseball world needs Albert Pujols.”
Right on, Big Papi.
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Science: Coffee Drinkers Live Longer →
Well, that’s good news!
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wheninnewyorkcity:
When you found out Mariano Rivera tore his ACL.
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Did Pujols Homer Yet? →
mlboffseason:
Important new Tumblr.
This is the best baseball tumblr since Sad Jorge!
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It happens when a father realizes he doesn’t just love his daughter, but also...
– President Obama (via barackobama)
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