Bumgarner Country
Madison Bumgarner is a World Series pitching hero hailing from North Carolina that lives with his wife at home in Dudley Shoals next to a body of water called Gunpowder Creek. Also, his father says things to the New York Times about his son like "I didn't know if he had enough left tonight, but I did know that boy would try to steal a steak off the devil's plate."
Daddy Bumgarner also proved the National League bona fides of his blood line to the Times with this line about his son, "He could hit better."
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That's six out of the last nine championships claimed by the Senior Circuit, and four of the last five.
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These photos from Oscar Taveras' funeral in the Dominican Republic. Not at all fair. Rest in Peace.
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Why are we still considering this fossilized group of baseball "very goods" for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame when there's a backlogged Murderers' Row of "greats" on the writers' ballot? (Billy Pierce in before Bonds or Clemens? Really?) I swear that this country's first and most important Hall of Fame has been hijacked from Generation X and Y by the Baby Boomers.
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Catch me following a sport in which team success is measured by polls. Especially a sport in which the biggest sports network on the planet (ESPN) now owns one of the just-launched conference television networks. There's a reason Major League Baseball fans always follow the standings, and never debate the "ESPN Power Rankings" of the same clubs.
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A quote by Frederick Douglass found in Curt Flood's 1970 autobiography "The Way It Is": "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." Douglass could be speaking directly to today's residents of Flood's adopted hometown, St. Louis.
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Come to think of it, Flood would make one hell of a baseball Hall of Famer.
posted by CM @ 8:32 PM
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